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A Thousand Blues

A Thousand Blues

Literary FictionScience Fiction
Pages
320
Published
2025
Language
English

Synopsis

Coli, a unique robot with the capacity for emotion, patiently observes the world from its perch in a shed. When a robot-obsessed young girl discovers Coli, an unlikely friendship blossoms between them. Together, they must navigate danger and execute a grand deception to save a life.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

HeartwarmingHopefulEmotionalThought-Provoking
Found FamilyComing of AgeReluctant HeroQuest

Genres

Literary Fiction Science Fiction Animals Dystopian

About the author

S
Seon-Ran Cheon

Cheon Seon-ran is a South Korean science fiction author born in Incheon in 1993. Her novel A Thousand Blues won the Korea SF Literature Award and is being adapted into a film by Warner Bros.; her novel The Midnight Shift received an English translation in 2025.

Characters

ColiProtagonist
All characters in A Thousand Blues