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". . . Choi creates an exhilarating matrix of poetry, science, and technology." —Publishers Weekly


"...Franny Choi combines technology and poetry to stunning effect."
–BUSTLE


“…these beautiful, fractal-like poems are meditations on identity and autonomy and offer consciousness-expanding forays into topics like violence and gender, love and isolation.”
–NYLON

Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness—how to be tender and feeling and still survive a violent world filled with artificial intelligence and automation. We are dropped straight into the tangled intersections of technology, violence, erasure, agency, gender, and loneliness.