The short-story collection "Laika's Ghost" by @KarlSchroeder was a terrific read!
There are so many ideas raised that I would like to explore further:
https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000536291095
FriesenPress BookstoreLaika's Ghost at the FriesenPress BookstoreUkrainian nuclear engineer Gennady Malianov would rather camp in the ruins of Chornobyl or explore abandoned anthrax factories than talk to another human being. Painfully shy as he is, he finds it soothing dismantling the abandoned genocide-machines of...