A Borrowed Man : A Novel (Paperback)

from ScoLgo

Another strange little tale from the mind of Gene Wolfe. This one is more straight-forward than most of his work but is still twisty and weird in places. The conceit, (clones as public property in a post-modern era), is nicely rendered via the fist-person narration of one such clone. On loan from...

from grahzny

A fun, tricky, disturbing, hilarious mystery by my fave, the old master himself. The conceit is that it's told from the perspective of an unusual library resource--a clone of an author, who can be checked out by "real" humans.

from Jim53

Wolfe gives us a relatively straightforward book for him--or else I just missed some subtleties. He begins with the brilliant idea that after cloning has been accomplished, clones of minor authors are available in public libraries, for consultation or checkout. Our narrator, E.A. Smithe, is such ...

from LisCarey

E.A. Smithe is a reclone--a clone of, in his case, a dead mystery writer, with the writer's recorded personality and memories uploaded to him. He's not a legal person, but a piece of property, specifically the property of a local library. He lives on a "shelf"--a three-walled room--at the library...

from LisCarey

E.A. Smithe is a reclone--a clone of, in his case, a dead mystery writer, with the writer's recorded personality and memories uploaded to him. He's not a legal person, but a piece of property, specifically the property of a local library. He lives on a "shelf"--a three-walled room--at the library...