Science Fiction has that single most important drawback that it isn’t relatable at most times. It is unreal and you know it is not possible in the real world. That I think was the feeling from the start of Klara And The Sun. It was hard to imagine something like an Artificial Friend. And even if you do, you start to feel – does it have life? Is it the same as humans? Does it have it’s life cycle?
The start of the book took some time to get a hold of what exactly was happening. The idea of AFs in a store talking to each other, moving around, looking out the window – as I said, hard to absorb. But as the story moves on and you accept this as an unreal fiction, Klara And The Sun is a nice story.
There are a couple of things that the …
