Wouldn’t You Rather Have A Puppy?

An Excerpt from The Tomorrow Paradox (Book Two in The Adventures of Mackenzie Mortimer):

“Obviously, although I still can’t understand your attachment to a clone. Clones are commodities, Mackenzie. It would be far easier to buy you a robot or a puppy for companionship.”
“Dad, Gemma is not a commodity; she’s a person. Why doesn’t anyone get that? It turns out the future is a lot like the past. There’s always a group of people ready to strip another group of its humanity. Blacks weren’t huma...