Replica by Richard Bowker (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia), a Philip K. Dick Award-nominee sfnal mystery/crime author, is a vintage near-future political techno-thriller, originally paperbacked by Bantam back in 1986, and now free courtesy of publisher ePublishing Works!, who specialize in acquiring and helping long-established print authors bring their backlists to e-format and have been offering us periodic freebies for several years now.
A blurbed review from The San Francisco Chronicles says that this "Succeeds both as a science fiction and as a contemporary thriller.", for 80s values of contemporary, at least.
Currently free @
B&N (also
UK),
Amazon (available to Canadians and in the
UK),
Kobo &
iTunes (both available to Canadians).
Description
Shana York, the brilliant young head of York Robotics is kidnapped and blackmailed into creating an android replica of Randall Forrester—the president of the United States.
If she fails, the price is death.
If she succeeds, it could mean the end of the world…