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A borrowed man

Gene Wolfe

2015300 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2015
first published
  • 2015300 pages · ENGISBN 9780765381149
  • 2015Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9781466877993
  • 2016PS Publishing · 548 pagesISBN 9781848639911
  • 2016Audible Studios on Brilliance AudioISBN 9781511372909
  • 2016Tor Books · 304 pagesISBN 9780765381156

It's perhaps a hundred years in the future and E. A. Smithe 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". Colette Coldbrook "decides to check Smithe out from the library because he is the surviving personality of the author of Murder on Mars", and the physical copy of the same book was in the possession of her father when he disappeared and presumed dead.--

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