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Key ideas from the book
- Economic hardship and overcrowding make starting a family difficult for many people in the UK.
- Virtual parenthood is offered as a subscription-based alternative to raising a real child.
- The Substitute follows ten couples caring for virtual children through an accelerated eighteen-year experience.
- Contestants face a choice between keeping their virtual child and taking a chance on having a real baby.
- The novel explores a speculative premise at the intersection of family life, technology, and reality television.
About The Family Experiment by John Marrs
Set in the same universe as The One and The Marriage Act, John Marrs’s speculative thriller imagines a UK strained by overcrowding and economic crisis, where many people can no longer afford to start or raise a family. A company offers an alternative: clients pay a monthly fee to create and care for a virtual child through the metaverse and a VR headset.
The experiment becomes a reality-TV contest called The Substitute. Ten couples raise virtual children from birth to eighteen over a compressed nine-month period. The prize is the chance to keep their virtual child—or risk that opportunity for the possibility of having a real baby. Readers interested in technology-driven speculative fiction, family life, and high-stakes television competitions may find this a compelling premise.
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