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Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart is the author of a best-selling memoir and three novels—including Super Sad True Love Story, about a near-future dominated by corporate consumerism and digital media.

Exoskeletons, automaton pets and tiny toy humanoids (pictured) populate the Korea Institute of Robot and Convergence.

A Visit to Seoul Brings Our Writer Face-to-Face With the Future of Robots

In the world’s most futuristic city, a tech-obsessed novelist confronts the invasion of mesmerizing machines