The Fictional Man
  • Published:
    May-2013
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Science Fiction
  • Time Period:
    Futuristic
  • Pages:
    320
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The most exciting new voice in sceince fiction has written a novel with enormous cross-over appeal. In an L.A. where Fictional characters are cloned into living beings, the author Niles Golan is on the verge of hitting the big-time - if he can just stay on top of reality long enough to make it.

In Hollywood, where last year's stars are this year's busboys, Fictionals are everywhere. Niles Golan's therapist is a Fictional. So is his best friend. So (maybe) is the woman in the bar he can't stop staring at. Fictionals -- characters ‘translated' into living beings for movies and TV using cloning technology -- are a part of daily life in LA now. Sometimes the problem is knowing who's real and who's not.

Divorced, alcoholic and hanging on by a thread, Niles -- author of Death By Degrees: A Kurt Power Novel and many others -- has been hired to write a big-budget reboot of a classic movie. If he does this right, the studio might bring one of Niles' own characters to life. Somewhere beneath the movie -- beneath the TV show it was inspired by, the children's book behind that and the story behind that -- is the kernel of something important. If he can just hold it together long enough...
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    • First Edition
    • May-2013
    • Solaris
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1781080941
    • ISBN13: 9781781080948
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    • May-2013
    • Rebellion
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1781080933
    • ISBN13: 9781781080931
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    • Jan-2021
    • Solaris
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1781088187
    • ISBN13: 9781781088180
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    • May-2013
    • Rebellion Publishing Ltd
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1849975388
    • ISBN13: 9781849975384
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    • Jul-2020
    • Rebellion Publishing Ltd
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1786183072
    • ISBN13: 9781786183071



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