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Spares

Michael Marshall Smith

1997272 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1997
first published
  • 1997Bantam Books · 322 pages · ENGISBN 9780553106046
  • 2009HarperCollins · ENGISBN 9780007325375
  • 2009Random House Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9780307573988
  • 1998Harper Collins Publishers · 272 pagesISBN 9780006512677

Talking fridges, human clone farms, flying shopping malls – we must be in the Michael Marshall Smith zone. A world all too close to our own...Spares – human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye – but some people are doing all the taking. Spares – the story of Jack Randall: burnt-out, dropped out, and way overdrawn at the luck bank. But as caretaker on a Spares Farm, he still has a choice, and it might make a difference...if he can run fast enough. Spares – a breathless race through strange, disturbing territories in a world all too close to our own. Spares – it's fiction. But only just...

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