The Replican by Joseph McCann

He wakes in The Park with no memory of who he is, or why he is outside. All he knows is that the killing machines are close, and that staying still means dying. So begins The Replican, Joseph McCann's dark sci-fi horror novel, set in a world where humanity has been pushed to the edge of extinction and where the survivors are no longer at the top of the food chain. They are the food.As The Replican flees across the ruined city, a mysterious figure follows: a man in a long coat and grey hat, a cigarette always burning, never far behind. Piece by piece, fragments of memory return, and with each one the question grows heavier. Who is he, what was done to him, and what is he now? The answers pull him toward a choice that no one should have to make, framed by the line that haunts the whole book: if you were me, what would you do?Fans of Gary Numan will recognize the DNA at once. McCann built this world out of the imagery of Numan's Replicas era: the park, the machines, the man in the long coat, the loneliness of a synthetic mind trying to understand itself. Readers do not need to know a single lyric to follow the story, but those who do will find lines and characters that land with an ex...