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  • Under the Radar

    CHAD VANGAALEN

    Sep 11, 2017 3 minutes
    Words by Laura Stanley

    “Science fiction is such a wild abstract version of what has been and what will be. I fell in love with it as a kid and I haven’t lost my love for it either.”


    Chad VanGaalen speaks with me from his home in Calgary, Alberta on a landline. He doesn’t own a cellphone. “I don’t even like people phoning me on my land-line, it just seems so overwhelming to me,” VanGaalen admits. In a world overrun by technology, not having a cellphone seems like a radical choice. Yet, it

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