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The Family Experiment: A dark, twisty near-future page-turner from the master of the speculative thriller
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan India
| Author:
JOHN MARRS
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan India
Author:
JOHN MARRS
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
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Some families are virtually perfect . . . The world’s population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, breaking point has arrived. A growing number of people can no longer afford to start families let alone raise them. But for those desperate to experience parenthood, there is an alternative.
For a monthly subscription fee, clients can create a virtual child from scratch who they can access via the metaverse and a VR headset.
To launch this new initiative, the company behind Virtual Children has created a reality tv show called The Substitute. It will follow ten couples as they raise a Virtual Child from birth to the age of eighteen, in a condensed nine-month time period.
The prize: the right to keep their virtual child – or risk it all for the chance of a real baby . . .
Set in the same universe as John Marrs’s bestselling novel The One and The Marriage Act, The Substitute is a dark and twisted thriller about the ultimate ‘tamagotchi’ – a virtual baby
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Some families are virtually perfect . . . The world’s population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, breaking point has arrived. A growing number of people can no longer afford to start families let alone raise them. But for those desperate to experience parenthood, there is an alternative.
For a monthly subscription fee, clients can create a virtual child from scratch who they can access via the metaverse and a VR headset.
To launch this new initiative, the company behind Virtual Children has created a reality tv show called The Substitute. It will follow ten couples as they raise a Virtual Child from birth to the age of eighteen, in a condensed nine-month time period.
The prize: the right to keep their virtual child – or risk it all for the chance of a real baby . . .
Set in the same universe as John Marrs’s bestselling novel The One and The Marriage Act, The Substitute is a dark and twisted thriller about the ultimate ‘tamagotchi’ – a virtual baby
About Author
John Marrs is an author and former journalist based in London and Northamptonshire. After spending his career interviewing celebrities from the worlds of television, film and music for numerous national newspapers and magazines, he is now a full-time author. He is the bestselling author of: The One, The Passengers, The Minders, What Lies Between and When You Disappeared.
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