Question
A character in this novel unknowingly models for the likeness of an android under the guise of sitting for a portrait. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel whose title character serves as an Artificial Friend to the sickly child Rosie and sabotages a construction machine.
ANSWER: Klara and the Sun
[10e] Klara and the Sun is by this Japanese-British author, whose other science fiction and fantasy novels include The Buried Giant and Never Let Me Go.
ANSWER: Kazuo Ishiguro
[10h] The plot of Klara and the Sun is paralleled by this author’s 1944 novel Sirius, in which a hyper-intelligent dog becomes the companion of the girl Plaxy. This British sci-fi novelist explored evolution over long time scales in Starmaker and Last and First Men.
ANSWER: Olaf Stapledon [or William Olaf Stapledon]
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