A borrowed man

Gene Wolfe

earliest edition we have, 2015 Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, 2016 audiobook

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 h...

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A Borrowed Man paperback · 2016 · Tor Books · 304 pages · 9780765381156
A Borrowed Man audiobook · 2016 · Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio · 9781511372909
A Borrowed man [signed slipcase] hardcover · 2016 · PS Publishing · 548 pages · 9781848639911
A borrowed man edition · 2015 · 300 pages · 9780765381149
Borrowed Man edition · 2015 · Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom · 304 pages · 9781466877993

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