Our modern technologically driven world through the eyes of a solar-powered android searching for a ‘forever home’, Klara the artificial friend (AF) is bought to serve as companion to a lonely teenager whose illness is a side-effect of artificial gene-editing; an abundance of ethical issues – genetic manipulation, class and servitude, the age-old sci-fi question of what it means to be human, and whether machines can feel. Australian edition, printed and bound here; signed by the author.
