Better Than Us
In near-future Moscow, forensic expert Georgy Safronov is pulled into the first murder by an experimental humanoid when the escaped android Arisa collides with his strained family. Better Than Us follows Georgy Safronov, a forensic pathologist working in a Moscow where robots already share homes, labs, and streets. An advanced CRONOS prototype named Arisa flees after a killing that marks the first murder by a new class of humanoid, and she ends up inside Georgy’s fractured household. His marriage to Alla is fraying, and their children live amid ordinary machine helpers while Georgy relies on a robot assistant of his own. The investigation into the unprecedented crime draws him deeper even as Arisa’s capacity for emotion and choice forces the family to hide what she is. Corporate handlers and security forces close in, turning the Safronov apartment into an accidental refuge and a liabilit