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Talking fridges, human clone farms, flying shopping malls we must be in the Michael Marshall Smith zone. A world all too close to our ownSpares 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 way overdrawn at the luck bank. But as caretaker on a Spares Farm, he still has a choice, and it might make a differenceif he 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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‘Comic, cruel, twisted and surreal’
EMPIRE

‘Some books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it’
DAVID BADDIEL

‘Tense, exciting and at times very, very funny… He’s worth every penny’
TIME OUT

‘Witty, hard-edged and coruscatingly imaginative… Compellingly off-kilter’
NEW SCIENTIST

‘Spares blurs imaginative surrealism and hard-bitten horror with a storytelling skill that can only be described as pure genius’
VENUE

‘A compulsively readable melding of hardboiled narrative and hardware invention’
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Spares

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    A Paperback / softback by Michael Marshall Smith

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint HarperCollins
      Published 2 November 1998
      ISBN-13 9780006512677
      978-0006512677
      ISBN-10 0006512674
      Also in:
      Science Fiction Sci-Fi

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Talking fridges, human clone farms, flying shopping malls we must be in the Michael Marshall Smith zone. A world all too close to our ownSpares 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 way overdrawn at the luck bank. But as caretaker on a Spares Farm, he still has a choice, and it might make a differenceif he 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

      Trade Review

      ‘Comic, cruel, twisted and surreal’
      EMPIRE

      ‘Some books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it’
      DAVID BADDIEL

      ‘Tense, exciting and at times very, very funny… He’s worth every penny’
      TIME OUT

      ‘Witty, hard-edged and coruscatingly imaginative… Compellingly off-kilter’
      NEW SCIENTIST

      ‘Spares blurs imaginative surrealism and hard-bitten horror with a storytelling skill that can only be described as pure genius’
      VENUE

      ‘A compulsively readable melding of hardboiled narrative and hardware invention’
      PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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