SuitabookHuman identity and reality
The Reborns are created from people of the 1940s, while Brin encounters a world whose apparent reality is part of an experiment.
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Nicholas Fisk - Author
This is an imaginative, unsettling science-fiction story about cloned people, social control and the meaning of a ‘real’ life. Its strongest appeal is likely its unusual premise and willingness to leave difficult questions unresolved.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is an imaginative, unsettling science-fiction story about cloned people, social control and the meaning of a ‘real’ life. Its strongest appeal is likely its unusual premise and willingness to leave difficult questions unresolved.
The Reborns are created from people of the 1940s, while Brin encounters a world whose apparent reality is part of an experiment.
Brin’s future is orderly and monitored, while the Reborns are placed in a controlled setting and observed without fully understanding their circumstances.
Brin begins by viewing the 1940s world and its people with contempt, then develops affection and becomes more concerned with others.
Consider whether the reader is comfortable with a persistent threat of death, nuclear-disaster background, wartime danger, human cloning and people being manipulated or treated as experimental subjects.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.
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