Interlibrary Loan
#6210 of 8,085 books · #1480 in Science Fiction
Shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2021).
Interlibrary Loan is the brilliant follow-up to A Borrowed Man. 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.
- Publisher
- Tor Books
- ISBN-13
- 9781250242679
- Topics
- Identity and personhoodCloning and artificial lifeMystery and family secrets
Awards
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelShortlisted(2021)
Other awarded books from Gene Wolfe
- The Sword of the Lictor (2011)2 wins · 22 score
- The Claw of the Conciliator (2011)2 wins · 21 score
- The Shadow of the Torturer (2011)2 wins · 21 score
- Soldier of the Mist (1986)1 win · 11 score
- Soldier of Sidon (2007)1 win · 10 score
- The Citadel of the Autarch (2011)0 wins · 10 score
- Free Live Free (1999)0 wins · 8 score
- The Urth of the New Sun (1997)0 wins · 8 score
- The Wizard Knight (2020)0 wins · 7 score
- Caldé of the Long Sun (1995)0 wins · 5 score
- Nightside the Long Sun (1993)0 wins · 5 score
- Soldier of Arete (1989)0 wins · 5 score
- The Land Across (2013)0 wins · 5 score
- A Borrowed Man (2015)0 wins · 4 score
- An Evil Guest (2008)0 wins · 4 score
- The Knight (2004)0 wins · 3 score
- Castleview (1991)0 wins · 2 score
- Exodus from the Long Sun (1997)0 wins · 2 score
- Home Fires (2011)0 wins · 2 score
- In Green's Jungles (2007)0 wins · 2 score
- On Blue's Waters (2007)0 wins · 2 score
- Pirate Freedom (2007)0 wins · 2 score
- Return to the Whorl (2001)0 wins · 2 score
- The Book of the Long Sun (1993)0 wins · 2 score
- The Sorcerer's House (2010)0 wins · 2 score
- There Are Doors (2001)0 wins · 2 score
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