Not much to see here, which surprised the hell out of me considering [a:Kazuo Ishiguro|4280|Kazuo Ishiguro|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1424906625p2/4280.jpg]'s reputation and how well [b:Klara and the Sun|54120408|Klara and the Sun|Kazuo Ishiguro|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1603206535l/54120408.SY75.jpg|84460796] was received by critics, most of whom I doubt have read much speculative fiction.
 It's a paste up of a variety of things, some decades old, like A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, the 2001 Steven Spielberg film that was based on a 1967 short story by Brian Aldiss; and, heavily, Caprica, the 2010 prequel to the 2004 re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica.
 Of some interest is the notion of artificial life forms that are constructed to grow via algorithms instead of only binary programing, so they form a degree of their own culture, but this too is not a new idea. Klara and the Sun so often read like young adult fiction that I wondered why it wasn't marketed as such. It is so chaste—there's nary a kiss—that if you got rid of the three or four naughty words it'd be Christian youth group friendly.
 There are a few semi-dystopian political references but none are pursued. The least interesting parts are when Ishiguro goes on at length to describe how the narrator, an artificial life form named Klara, sees things in segmented ways. You get it the first time, but he goes on and on about it throughout the book.
 The end reminded me a little of the end of his earlier Remains of the Day, but only enough to make me remember how much I liked that book when it came out.
 Side note: An esteemed author who doesn't know the difference between farther and further?

  The kitchen was especially difficult to navigate because so many of its elements would change their relationships to one another moment by moment. I now appreciated how in the store—surely out of consideration for us—Manager had carefully kept all the items, even smaller ones like the bracelets of the silver earrings box, in their correct places. Throughout Josie's house, however, and in the kitchen in particular, Melania Housekeeper would constantly move items around, obliging me to start afresh in my learning. One morning, for instance, Melania Housekeeper altered the position of her food blender four times within as many minutes. But once I'd established the importance of the Island, things became much easier.