Luminous

'It's beautifully written and wonderful on what it means to be human. I loved it.' Daily Mail

'Searching and masterful, Park's Luminous engrossed me completely. Each broken robot, child, and warrior takes the elusive promise of family to a whole new level. I was honestly blown away.' Sierra Greer, author of Annie Bot

'A spectacular debut, taking place in a thoroughly imagined, vividly written future. Harrowing but full of heart, a work of enormous ambition and brilliance with an ending that fully justifies the title and brought me to tears.' Karen Joy Fowler

'What starts as a YA school adventure grows into a more sophisticated piece of cyberpunk futurism that explores what it means to be human. An instant classic.' Guardian, Best Science Fiction Books of 2025'

'Extraordinary…set in a not-too-distant future, debut novelist Silvia Park's Luminous gloriously explores the unpredictable, fading lines between man and machine.' Shelf Awareness

'Inventive, rollicking, and poetic, Luminous is a future classic novel about robots that reveals itself to be profoundly, beautifully human.' Juhea Kim, author of Beasts of a Little Land

'Luminous is full of complex characters, damaged and broken and beautiful. It's a novel full of pleasures, big and small, gorgeous sentences from which Park weaves a rich, layered story of family and work, of history and speculation, of Korea, past, present and future.' Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown

'Luminous is grotesque, it is triumphant, it is horrifying, it is transcendent, and you really, really should read it. Take the time to soak in everything it offers, then go back and read it again. It really is that good.' Lightspeed Magazine

'This is an astonishingly well-written, emotionally impactful, nuanced examination of the potential relationship between humanity and robots.' Good Reading Magazine (Australia)