TY - BOOK AU - Wolfe,Gene TI - Interlibrary loan T2 - Borrowed man series SN - 9781250242365 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Tor KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Fiction KW - Authors KW - Libraries KW - Autonomous robots KW - Science fiction KW - lcgft KW - Noir fiction KW - Novels N1 - Book 2 of 2 ; series information from Amazon.com; "A Tom Doherty Associates book"--Title page N2 - A sequel to "A Borrowed Man" is set in a future world of artificial intelligence where a clone is loaned out to a little girl before discovering that his original self, a mystery writer, is still alive; Hundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on. There is advanced technology, there are robots. And there are clones. 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. 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. And another E.A. Smithe...who definitely is ER -