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The New Scientist Book Club read Silvia Park's near-future sci-fi novel Luminous in May, and had lots of good things to say (along with a few complaints)

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The New Scientist Book Club read Silvia Park’s Luminous in May

The New Scientist Book Club had quite a change of science-fictional pace in May, moving from the wilds of space in our April read, Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars , to a much closer-to-home future in Silvia Park ’s Luminous .

Like another of our reads this year, Sierra Greer’s Annie Bot , this imagines a world where robots are integrated into society – and explores how we might deal with this on many different levels: emotionally, spiritually, practically, sexually.…