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Anna Gorin/Getty Images As soon as I started reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel, Never Let Me Go, his 2005 novel about human clones raised as organ donors for their original bodies, Ishiguro creates a sort of nostalgic dystopia. He lays a blanket of melancholy over a recognisable but slightly off-kilter world. His style is one of retro science fiction comprising an old-fashioned sensibility and a chilling technology from the future. In Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro was worried about cloning; in Klara and the Sun it is artificial intelligence. The novel is narrated by Klara, who it soon becomes apparent is a solar-powered robot. A highly sophisticated, intelligent and self-aware robot, to be sure, but a robot none the less. She looks humanish, but she wouldn’t fool anyone into thinking she was actually human. I’m sure she would pass the Turing test, in that she can demonstrate human-level intelligence, but that’s not the same as saying that she cou ....
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