{"product_id":"borrowed-man-9780765381156","title":"A Borrowed Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Borrowed Man\u003c\/i\u003e: a new science fiction novel from Gene Wolfe, the celebrated author of the Book of the New Sun series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is perhaps a hundred years in the future, our civilization is gone, and another is in place in North America, but it retains many familiar things and structures. Although the population is now small, there is advanced technology, there are robots, and there are clones. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eE. A. Smithe is a borrowed person. He 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. Smithe is a piece of property, not a legal human. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA wealthy patron, Colette Coldbrook, takes him from the library because he is the surviving personality of the author of \u003ci\u003eMurder on Mars\u003c\/i\u003e. A physical copy of that book was in the possession of her murdered father, and it contains an important secret, the key to immense family wealth. It is lost, and Colette is afraid of the police. She borrows Smithe to help her find the book and to find out what the secret is. And then the plot gets complicated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGene Wolfe (1931-2019)\u003c\/b\u003e was the Nebula Award-winning author of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy in the Solar Cycle, as well as the World Fantasy Award winners \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow of the Torturer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSoldier of Sidon\u003c\/i\u003e. He was also a prolific writer of distinguished short fiction, which has been collected in such award-winning volumes as \u003ci\u003eStoreys from the Old Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best of Gene Wolfe\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and six \u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e Awards, among many other honors, Wolfe was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007, and named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2012.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50646632792338,"sku":"9780765381156","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9a63e926-ebb1-4f97-bf90-ac120e8d30d6.jpg?v=1733182768","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/borrowed-man-9780765381156","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}