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Michael Marshall Smith’s *Spares* thrusts readers into a near‑future society dominated by human clone farms and high‑tech ethics. The story follows Jack Randall, a weary caretaker who has grown disillusioned with a credit‑ripping ‘luck bank’. His routine life on a Spares Farm—a facility where human clones are produced for insurance purposes—shifts dramatically when he is confronted with a decision that could alter the course of the entire program. The novel unfolds as a tense, suspenseful race against time, exploring the darker corners of a society that has embedded clone technology into its very fabric.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: Suspense/General Suspense
Authors: Michael Marshall Smith
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