A Borrowed Man, by Gene Wolfe
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A Borrowed Man, by Gene Wolfe
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A Borrowed Man: a new science fiction novel, from Gene Wolfe, the celebrated author of the Book of the New Sun series.
It 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.
E. 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.
A wealthy patron, Colette Coldbrook, takes him from the library because he is the surviving personality of the author of Murder on Mars. 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.
A Borrowed Man, by Gene Wolfe - Amazon Sales Rank: #145919 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-20
- Released on: 2015-10-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.45" h x 1.08" w x 5.72" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 304 pages
A Borrowed Man, by Gene Wolfe About the Author Gene Wolfe is winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, as well as the Nebula Award (2), the World Fantasy Award (3-most recently for Soldier of Sidon), the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Prix Apollo. In 2007, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful. The title is accurate. If that disturbs you, it should. By Dan'l Danehy-Oakes The arrival of a new Gene Wolfe book chez moi is always cause for some celebration, and this is no exception. Wolfe, for the two or three of you who don't know, is one of the few SFF writers who manage to be entertaining, puzzling, and literarily non-embarrassing all at the same time. He's just really, really _good_._A Borrowed Man_ is the story of mystery writer E.A. Smithe, or rather of his "reclone," living on a shelf in the Spice Grove Public Library. In this particular future - it appears to be the late 22nd century - most of humanity's problems have been solved: the population is down to about a billion, there is no war, etc.There are cracks in this utopian facade, though. One is the existence of carefully-hidden poverty; another is the institutionalization of people who are "defective."And a third is the reclone problem. Famous people - mostly authors and artists - from the relatively recent past have been scanned and force-cloned, and their clones have had their brains filled with the scans of their originals, with some small alterations - the most important of which is that they can create no new works.Oh, and they're property, not legally human. E.A. Smithe resents this, but not as much as you'd think; probably because they've altered his scan to make it impossible for him to really rebel.As the book begins, he's checked out of the library by Colette Coldbrook, who (she says) wants him to find the secret of a book. The book happens to be one of Smithe's own, _Murder On Mars_, which he barely recalls writing. It was (she tells him) the only thing in the safe of her late father, a very successful and rich man.Colette's brother is also dead, she tells him, strangled to death in the entryway of the family mansion.There seems to be nothing special about this book - though it appears to be the only surviving copy! - and would E.A. Smithe please help her figure out why it was in the safe?Well, Smithe is only too pleased (or is conditioned to be pleased) to help a library patron, so he sets out to solve the problem. She fills him in on some details in a location where she hopes there are no bugs, then takes him back to her apartment - no hanky-panky, mind - where they are attacked, stripped, and tied to chairs by Persons Unknown, who tear the apartment apart looking for the book. Fortunately, Smithe has found a rather clever hiding place which they do not find.Next they head for the family mansion and Smithe learns a few more things - most notably, that there are locked rooms that nobody in the family but Daddy could enter, and nobody has been able to figure out how to enter them. The reader will assume at this point that the book has something to do with those rooms, and the reader will be right.Anyway, Colette disappears, Smithe checks himself back into the library (though not without incident) and he is soon checked out again by some police who work him over trying to learn Colette's whereabouts.I think that's enough plot summary. As you can tell, it is - as usually for Wolfe - a tangled and recomplicated plot, and while everything I told you above is true, some of it is misleading because I don't want to give away the end of what is, in the end, primarily a mystery story.I enjoyed it heartily and shall again.
15 of 19 people found the following review helpful. Meh By J. Green I'm a huge Gene Wolfe fan, I've read pretty much everything he's written, a lot of it twice. This book was more tedious than anything else. I found the narrative style to be repetitive, fussy, and just plain boring. Yes the book has some scifi elements, but nothing earth-shattering and I wouldn't call it a science fiction book per se. As others have said it's basically a mystery, but since the characters are poorly developed and the narrator is downright annoying it's hard to care whodunit. I was really looking forward to this and am very disappointed. "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" it ain't.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Master writes mystery, somehow mediocre By Amazon Customer I would consider myself a Gene Wolfe "freak", if those exist for Mr. Wolfe. I have gone from casually listing him among favorites and giving small praise when due, to outright forcing him onto people who maybe weren't even ready. I can actually say how I feel about him as an author has made me question friendships with those who "just couldn't get it" or whatever other poor excuse left them bereft of the wonder that is Book Of The New Sun (or a cacophony of others). Its a powerful thing. Very obviously, I was excited by this upcoming novel.All of the aforementioned adoration pushed me much further through this book than I even wanted to go. The main character and narrator of the novel is a "reclone" of a mediocre mystery author, which very obtusely makes the narration of the story...mediocre. I've never felt this way about Wolfe. I'll take his earlier work as no less than it is, but this one is just a surprising dud for me.
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