A Borrowed Man

Author : Gene Wolfe
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466877995
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Borrowed Man written by Gene Wolfe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Dave Rudden
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 055352299X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knights of the Borrowed Dark written by Dave Rudden and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This imaginative new fantasy will charm fans of the Ranger’s Apprentice and Rick Riordan. Denizen Hardwick is an orphan, and his life is, well, normal. Sure, in storybooks orphans are rescued from drudgery when they discover they are a wizard or a warrior or a prophesized king. But this is real life—orphans are just kids without parents. At least that’s what Denizen thought. . . . On a particularly dark night, the gates of Crosscaper Orphanage open to a car that almost growls with power. The car and the man in it retrieve Denizen with the promise of introducing him to a long-lost aunt. But on the ride into the city, they are attacked. Denizen soon learns that monsters can grow out of the shadows. And there is an ancient order of knights who keep them at bay. Denizen has a unique connection to these knights, but everything they tell him feels like a half-truth. If Denizen joins the order, is he fulfilling his destiny, or turning his back on everything his family did to keep him alive?

Author : Chan Ho-Kei
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802189822
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Borrowed written by Chan Ho-Kei and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legendary detective uncovers Hong Kong’s darkest crimes: “An ambitious narrative brilliantly executed . . . What an achievement!” (John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8). From award-winning author Chan Ho-kei, The Borrowed tells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a detective who’s worked in Hong Kong fifty years. Across six decades of Hong Kong’s volatile history, the narrative follows Kwan through the Leftist Riot of 1967, when a bombing plot threatens many lives; the conflict between the HK Police and ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) in 1977; the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; the Handover in 1997; and the present day of 2013, when Kwan is called on to solve his final case, the murder of a local billionaire, in a modern Hong Kong that increasingly resembles a police state. Along the way we meet Communist rioters, ultra-violent gangsters, pop singers enmeshed in the high-stakes machinery of star-making, and a people always caught in the shifting balance of political power, whether in London or Beijing. Tracing a broad historical arc, The Borrowed reveals just how closely everything is connected, how history repeats itself, and how we have come full circle to repeat the political upheaval and societal unrest of the past. It is a gripping, brilliantly constructed novel from a talented new voice.

Author : Gene Wolfe
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250242681
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interlibrary Loan written by Gene Wolfe and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Gene Wolfe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848639911
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Borrowed Man written by Gene Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roberta Ray
Publisher : PearlStone Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781936513420
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Borrowed Man written by Roberta Ray and published by PearlStone Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's left for your neighbor to borrow when you're all out of sugar? Apparently, there's no limit or is there...asked karma? Check out what Roberta reveals in this book as she captures an intriguing story of a view seen with her own eyes.

Author : Gene Wolfe
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 9781473211971
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the New Sun written by Gene Wolfe and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, a torturer's apprentice, is exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners. Ordered to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est, Severian must make his way across the perilous, ruined landscape of this far-future Urth. But is his finding of the mystical gem, the Claw of the Conciliator, merely an accident, or does Fate have a grander plans for Severian the torturer . . . ? This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator.

Author : Stanley Corngold
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791406724
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borrowed Lives written by Stanley Corngold and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-09-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borrowed Lives is a novel. It is an enactment of issues of literary philosophy and criticism, including the question of whether there can be originality, coherence, and authenticity in life and art. It deepens William Blake’s point — Make your own myth or else be enslaved by another man’s — by asking whether one’s own myth isn’t also another man’s myth and by portraying the terrible consequences of taking one’s own myth literally.

Author : Sèphera Girón
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780843952575
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borrowed Flesh written by Sèphera Girón and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witch learns the secret of immortality—but at an increasingly gruesome price.

Author : Emily Giffin
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9781250011862
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something Borrowed written by Emily Giffin and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giffin's smash-hit debut novel--basis for the 2011 film--is for every woman who has ever had a complicated love-hate friendship.