9780765381149-0765381141-A Borrowed Man: A Novel

A Borrowed Man: A Novel

ISBN-13: 9780765381149
ISBN-10: 0765381141
Edition: First Edition
Author: Gene Wolfe
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Tor Books
Format: Hardcover 304 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780765381149
ISBN-10: 0765381141
Edition: First Edition
Author: Gene Wolfe
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Tor Books
Format: Hardcover 304 pages

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A Borrowed Man: A Novel (ISBN-13: 9780765381149 and ISBN-10: 0765381141), written by authors Gene Wolfe, was published by Tor Books in 2015. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent A Borrowed Man: A Novel (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.48.

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A Borrowed Man: a new science fiction novel, from Gene Wolfe, the celebrated author of the Book of the New Sun series.

It is perhaps a hundred years in the future, our civilization is gone, and another is in place in North America, but it retains many familiar things and structures. Although the population is now small, there is advanced technology, there are robots, and there are clones.

E. A. Smithe is a borrowed person. He is a clone who lives on a third-tier shelf in a public library, and his personality is an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer. Smithe is a piece of property, not a legal human.

A wealthy patron, Colette Coldbrook, takes him from the library because he is the surviving personality of the author of Murder on Mars. A physical copy of that book was in the possession of her murdered father, and it contains an important secret, the key to immense family wealth. It is lost, and Colette is afraid of the police. She borrows Smithe to help her find the book and to find out what the secret is. And then the plot gets complicated.

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