Soft Science

Loosely inspired by the movie Ex Machina and the character Kyoko (an Asian sex robot whose creator removes her language capabilities in order to protect his company's trade secrets). It's a take on language, race, and gender; about survival under capitalism; about power and intimacy, especially with others whose bodies make them strange. Though the book isn't just about robots (or just about that movie), Kyoko is "one of the godmothers of the book," and haunts it throughout. About the author in Choi's words: "Franny Choi is a queer, Korean American pottymouth. . .about a 5.5 on the Mulan butch-femme scale." Choi is super enthusiastic, energetic, and ready to tour. She has already dreamed up a book launch in Detroit, MI, and also plans to tour the northeast.