More Real Than Him by Silvia Park

More Real Than Him by Silvia Park
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Length: Short Story (24 pages)
Rating: 3 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

The beginnings of a tentative friendship between two roboticists complicate over career envy, female beauty, and a stolen robot designed to resemble a famous Korean actor.

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Artificial intelligence is something that has fascinated me for a long time. This story included a robot who was incredibly lifelike and two roboticists who had spent years learning how to iron out the differences between how humans behave and how machines are generally expected to behave. The descriptions of what the robot was capable of was enthralling. He could do things I never would have imagined would be possible, and yet the humans around him still hoped to nudge him even closer to looking and acting just like a person does. Getting to know him and the person who created him so well was a treat.

I had trouble keeping track of all of the characters in this tale. Part of the issue was that one character’s name was changed partway through the storyline. There were also multiple characters introduced at the same time and the narrator wasn’t always consistent about whether they were referred to by their first or last names from one moment to the next. All of this made keeping track of everyone tricky, and it did impact my enjoyment of the plot as well.

There were some creative plot twists. While I did wonder if some of them were in the works ahead of time, it was still a great deal of fun to see my guesses turn out to be the correct ones. Ms. Park did a very good job of hinting at these moments without giving away too many clues that they were actually in the cards for the characters.

More Real Than Him should be read by anyone who enjoys robots.