- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press; New edition edition (9 Nov 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 019275047X
- ISBN-13: 978-0192750471
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.7 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 660,148 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A thrilling futuristic novel set at the end of the 22nd century. The government is cloning new people and has manufactured a 1940s wartime family who are unaware that nothing they know is real. Our hero is sent to monitor these 'Reborns' and gradually becomes aware of a horrible underlying secret. A brilliant plot twist at the end turns the book on its head. An exciting sci-fi novel which will appeal especially to boy readers, with the topical subject of cloning. This extraordinarily prophetic 80's novel, which was published in the Oxford Children's Modern Classics series in 1999, is now reissued in a smaller, mass-market paperback format.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I, too, read this book at school, after I was told Nicholas Fisk was coming to do a writer's workshop. It provoked a lot of thought from my young mind and like many other reviewers, it has stayed with me 20 years on as a landmark text. Great science fiction for kids.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
i first read this way back in the 70's and, to be honest, i scared me witless for years after. maybe i was a sensitive child or something. so i came back to it a cynical adult and after the first twenty pages i was laughing at my previous fears, but then the plot really kicks in and remarkably for a thirty year old kids book it hasn't dated. without including spoilers take liberal doses of paranoia from 'the matrix' and 'the truman show'. Throw in the blitz and season with a random futuristic utopian city run by old people and boil for an afternoon. so, if you want your kids to grow up with a healthy questioning mind, get this book. if you felt like me about it, buy this book and if you've stumbled in here in error, buy this book. seminal.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I read this book when I was merely nine years old, I only read it once with my book club in primary school. I thought it was excellent and even though I am now twenty-five I still remember this book vividly. A must-read for anyone who likes books.
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Powerful and Thought Provoking
This was a powerful and thought provoking book. It made a powerful impression on me when I first read it. Read more
Published on 10 July 2009 by Sir Furboy
Totally gripping
I picked this book up in a library when I was about 10 and haven't forgotten it. It got into my dreams for sure. Read more
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many years ago
I took this book out of the library when I was about 12 years old ... I read it with a passion and was thoroughly absorbed ... Read more
Published on 27 Oct 2006 by allesteer
Strange memories
Like some other reviewers I also read this book in my English class when I was about 10. It must have been on the curriculum. Read more
Published on 2 May 2004 by Ian Warner
I still remember this book after twenty years!
I still remember this book twenty years after reading it in my school library.
This book had me thinking about the story for many years after I read it and I am looking forward... Read more
Published on 14 May 2003 by "nicknicolaides"
Fantastic thought provoking childrens novel
Twists turns all the way leaving the reader guessing right until the end. Exercises grey matter & provokes questions on reality & mortality, what if's, & the future. Read more
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