The Family Experiment - A dark twisty near future page turner from master of speculative

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. It will follow ten couples as they raise a Virtual Child from birth to the age of eighteen but 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 Family Experiment is a dark and twisted thriller about the ultimate ''tamagotchi'' - a virtual baby.

Product details

• Authors: John Marrs, Marrs John
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2024
• EAN: 9781035016976
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3501697-6
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 242 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, Science Fiction, FICTION / Thrillers / General, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Psychological thriller, FICTION / Science Fiction / Crime & Mystery, Science fiction: near future