Interlibrary Loan

<p><b><i>Interlibrary Loan </i>is the brilliant follow-up to <i>A Borrowed Man</i>: the final work of fiction from multi-award winner and national literary treasure Gene Wolfe.</b><br><br><b>A 2021 Locus Award Finalist!</b><br><br>Hundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on. There is advanced technology, there are robots.<br><br>And there are clones.<br><br>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>And another E. A. Smithe... who definitely is.</p>