Valerie J. Freireich

This wasn't exactly my kind of thing, but I liked it and my wife and I became pretty attached to the characters. We almost gave up about 75 pages in, but we were just too curious how it would play out. Lots of intrigue, very realistic world building. Good stuff, but not super exciting.

A great mix of philosophy and science fiction (if that's what you're looking for). A human made (grown) android like thing questions what it means to be human, and what right, wrong, and loyalty means to him...later his clone faces the same questions with his predecessor's rep hanging over his head