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Interlibrary Loan

By Gene Wolfe
Interlibrary Loan by Gene Wolfe digital book - Fable

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Interlibrary Loan is the brilliant follow-up to A Borrowed Man: the final work of fiction from multi-award winner and national literary treasure Gene Wolfe.

A 2021 Locus Award Finalist!

Hundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on. There is advanced technology, there are robots.

And there are clones.

E. A. Smithe is a borrowed person, his personality an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer. Smithe is a piece of property, not a legal human.

As such, Smithe can be loaned to other branches. Which he is. Along with two fellow reclones, a cookbook and romance writer, they are shipped to Polly’s Cove, where Smithe meets a little girl who wants to save her mother, a father who is dead but perhaps not.

And another E.A. Smithe… who definitely is.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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16 Reviews

2.5
Thinking Face“This book was terribly interesting until it hit the point of failure. Unfortunately, it was destined to it, as it was published posthumously and quite clearly unfinished. for what it's worth though, the writing was very intriguing, the story engaging until it fell into a fever dream. I still enjoyed it but I feel rather unfinished and unsatisfied with what the ending gave me.”
“Things I did not know when I picked this off the shelf at the library: - this is the second book in a series. - it was published posthumously; the author died in 2019. Oops. The premise of this is great - cloned versions of authors that people can check out from the library for various purposes (but mostly for their expertise in their subject). It's a fun detective story. The problem is, I think it wasn't ready to be published. The last third just swerves wildly to the point you feel like you're reading a different book in the series - I really have no idea what was going on, what the resolution of the mystery was, or what the green box was/did. It felt really confusing. Characters disappear and new ones appear really far along into the book. Something is definitely missing here. It gets 3 stars for the cool premise and rhe mystery being entertaining right up to where everything went haywire.”
“I have absolutely no idea what I just read.”

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