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The Companions

✍ Scribed by Katie M. Flynn

Book ID
112625904
Publisher
Gallery/Scout Press
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Weight
1000 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781982122171

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✦ Synopsis

Station Eleven meets Never Let Me Go in this "suspenseful, introspective debut" (Kirkus Reviews) set in an unsettling near future where the dead can be uploaded to machines and kept in service by the living.
In the wake of a highly contagious virus, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers, the living can't go out, but the dead can come inβ€”and they come in all forms, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the "companionship" program choose to upload their consciousness before dying, so they can stay in the custody of their families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers upon their death, but all companions become the intellectual property of Metis Corporation, creating a new class of peopleβ€”a command-driven product-class without legal rights or true free will.
Sixteen-year-old Lilac is one of the less fortunate, leased to a family of...

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