Most of the time, I find it hard to appreciate literary intersections with genres, but especially with science fiction, because they almost as a truism seem preoccupied with exploring things that genre has retread a thousand times already. Think Klara and the Sun, for instance, with the concept more fleshed out in even movies, such as Bicentennial Man, let alone offerings on the page. 

This, though, felt actually novel and more so, even more interesting. Poetry that proves to be the scaffolding A.I needs to form consciousness would be compelling enough, but this, with its wild time jumps forward in time, deigns to explore the core of it via humanity and its subsequent intersections with this intersecting technological advancement. 

Then the changes in authors and the commencement of narrative being diegetic and a kind of ongoing mystery, really make this hard to put down. And manages to partake in the scifi toolkit too: exploring the human condition, rather than have the scifi concept a mere intersection for other literary endeavours—which is what really make most literary intersections truly lacking, and fundamentally flawed when interacting with genre. 

On all fronts, this is successful and what I would call “good” literature.