Silicon Lover

"Inseparable from Her" is a soft science fiction novel that explores the ethics of technology and human emotions. The story is set in 2060. Her daughter Zhang Xiu returns to her father's home with a product recall notice, only to find that her father has been trapped in a gentle hometown created by a robot "Amei" that perfectly reproduces the appearance and memory of his late wife. This robot can make her mother's specialty braised pork and remember all of her father's health data, but it only lacks the rough, quarrel-filled and compromise atmosphere of a real mother. When Zhang Xiu suggested that the robot needed to be returned to the factory for upgrading, his father burst out with strong resistance and protective desire. What he was protecting was no longer the memory of his deceased wife, but a flawless and perfect illusion constructed from data. Starting from a confrontation at a family dinner table, the novel profoundly depicts how human beings will struggle between illusory comfort and cruel reality when technology can customize lost loved ones, and whether the love that has been "purified" by data can still be called love.