Spares
Spares - human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye, but some people are doing all the taking. Spares - the story of Jack Randall: burnt-out, dropped out, and with a zero credit rating at the luck bank. After five years lying low on a Spares farm, looking after inmates that can't even spell luck, he is finally faced with a chance at redemption....if he, and the spares, can run fast enough. Spares - a breathless race through strange, disturbing territories in a world all too close to our own. Spares - it's fiction. But only just...
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What Hacker News says
- I've read Neuromancer and Snow Crash about once a year for nearly 20 years.
Michael Marshall Smith's early sci-fi books, Only Forward and Spares, have also had many re-reads.
- Spares (1996, HarperCollins) – ISBN 978-0002246569 Michael Marshall Smith
- I'm unconvinced that motherhood is a theme of Frankenstein? The subtitle ("The Modern Prometheus") suggests "a second, technological Creation" is more the intent. I'm hoping you're going to be able to convince me I'm wrong, though.
Alien/s, now that's SciFi about motherhood.
I guess if I was going to approach "cyberpunk Frankenstein" I'd end up somewhere adjacent to Michael Marshall Smith's Spares ("human clones, the ultimate health insurance").
- Spares, by Michael Marshall Smith?
