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The Family Experiment
First published 2024
About the book
Some families are virtually perfect…
The world’s population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, the breaking point has arrived. A growing number of people can no longer afford to start families, let alone raise them.
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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 called The Substitute. 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.
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- 2025 Longlist
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Catalogue record
- Author
- Marrs, John
- Statement
- The Family Experiment / John Marrs.
Book facts
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan, 2024
- LC
- PR6113.A768 F3 2025
- Dewey
- 823.92
- ISBN
- 978-1-5290-7122-1
4 more ISBNs
- 978-1-5290-7123-8
- 978-1-0350-1697-6
- 978-0-3697-4697-9
- 978-1-335-00036-1
- Editions
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5 English editions
- Harlequin Enterprises ULC, 2024 978-1-335-00036-1
- Harlequin Enterprises ULC, 2024 978-0-3697-4697-9
- Pan Macmillan, 2024 978-1-5290-7122-1
- Pan Macmillan, 2024 978-1-0350-1697-6
- Pan Macmillan, 2025, 384 pages 978-1-5290-7123-8
- Records
- Open Library Wikidata
