No More Than A Boy / Luminous By Silvia Park

Silvia Park’s 2025 Luminous is a stand-alone near-future science fiction novel. Robots are commonplace in re-unified Korea. As designs improve, more and more roles once reserved for humans are relegated to the robots. Some of these are service jobs. Others are more intimate. Robots can be made in the form of sex partners or to resemble dead siblings. Cho Jun and Cho Morgan, children of…