02083cam a2200289 4500 1671354175 TxAuBib 20241023120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780369746979 036974697X 0030762259 Axis360 TxAuBib Marrs, John. The Family Experiment [Boundless]. Original. Hanover Square Pr, 2024. From the acclaimed author of The One and The Marriage Act, The Family Experiment is a dark and brilliant speculative thriller about families: real and virtual. Some families are virtually perfect… The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, the 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 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. Format: Blio. FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Dystopian; FICTION / Thrillers / Technological. General Adult. Importer Version: 2016-03-11.01 Import Date: 2024-10-23 20:00:03. Fiction Literary. Fiction fast Thrillers Technological. Fiction fast Dystopian. https://fpltx.boundless.baker-taylor.com/Title?itemId=0030762259 TXFLO