The family experiment / John Marrs.

Marrs, John, author

London : Pan Books, 2025.

453 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

Dark future

Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2024.

The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, 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. 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.

9781529071238 (pbk)

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PR6113.A768

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