Spares

Talking fridges, human clone farms, flying shopping malls – we must be in the Michael Marshall Smith zone. A world all too close to our own...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 way overdrawn at the luck bank. But as caretaker on a Spares Farm, he still has a choice, and it might make a difference...if 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... A novel set in a world where people replicate themselves, using the resulting clones for body parts to replace their own when they wear out. The hero is a former soldier who frees a group of spares from a center in Virginia, touching off a manhunt. Lots of new ideas, including self-programming computers