This near future sci-fi novel is stunning, immersive, believable, and wonderful. I love technology sci-fi with a big corporation, total adoption looming, some resistance to the tech, and a fight for humanity. More Perfect delivers all that and more.

The Pulse is a tech implant that changes the way people interact with their world and with others. It is social media, it is augmented reality, and it is how almost everyone communicates with their loved ones. Allowing you to stay in contact and share experiences. Without it, you’re not living the same life as everyone else. The novel begins with Moremi eagerly awaiting receiving her Pulse. Orpheus’s narrative begins on a remote island separated from all technology. How these stories unfold and entwine is told expertly by Oh.

Many sci-fi novels make up tech and immerse you more completely in a far off world, but More Perfect does a realistic job with modern references. It’s silly to believe all our modern things would disappear in the next 30 years, replaced by new brand labels. I get that the immersive spell of the novel is more complete without these references. It is like a record scratch reading about Polaroids, Ray Bans, and Beyonce songs. But it is more realistic for London 2050 to acknowledge that culture will still exist.

I loved this novel and Temi Oh does a beautiful job reimagining the Eurydice and Orpheus myth. This is a novel about love and family, home, and the future of society.