A Borrowed Man

✍ Scribed by Gene Wolfe

• Book ID: 110615617
• Publisher: Tor; Tom Doherty Associates
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 195 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781466877993
• ASIN: B00VE3KMXW

✦ Synopsis

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Hardcover, 300 pages
Published: 2015
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.
The father of Colette Coldbrook, a wealthy library patron, has disappeared and been proclaimed dead. She decides to check Smithe out of the library because he is the surviving personality of the author of "Murder on Mars". A physical copy of that book was the sole item in her father's safe, and it contains an important secret, the key to immense family wealth. Her brother, Conrad, turned up dead in the family home shortly after giving the book to her.
Colette has reached the end of her options. She's afraid of the police, and there are others who might want the book's secret. Smithe is her last hope. Borrowing him might help her find the connection between the deaths and "Murder on Mars". Together they find something far beyond their expectations--something almost anyone would kill for.
Prometheus Award Nominee for Best Novel (2016)