| Front Cover |
Book Details |
Back Cover |
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| Genre |
Fiction |
| Subject |
Cloning - Fiction |
| Publication Date |
1/1/2002 |
| Format |
Hardcover (9.5
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6.2
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| Publisher |
Tor Books |
| Language |
English |
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| Description |
| KILN PEOPLE - David Brin In a perilous future where disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every legal and illicit whim of their decadent masters, life is cheap. No one knows that better than Albert Morris, a brash investigator with a knack for trouble, who has sent his own duplicates into deadly peril more times than he cares to remember.\ But when Morris takes on a ring of bootleggers making illegal copies of a famous actress, he stumbles upon a secret so explosive it has incited open warfare on the streets of Dittotown. Dr. Yosil Maharal, a brilliant researcher in artificial intelligence, has suddenly vanished, just as he is on the verge of a revolutionary scientific breakthrough. Maharal's daughter, Ritu, believes he has been kidnapped-or worse. Aeneas Polom, a reclusive trillionaire who appears in public only through his high-priced platinum duplicates, offers Morris unlimited resources to locate Maharal before his awesome discovery falls into the wrong hands. To uncover the truth, Morris must enter a shadowy, nightmare world of ghosts and golems where nothing -and no one-is what they seem, memory itself is suspect, and the line between life and death may no longer exist. |
| Personal Details |
| Store |
Bookman's |
| Purchase Price |
$10.00 |
| Acquire Date |
7/21/2018 |
| Condition |
Very Good/Very Good |
| Rating |
0 |
| Links |
Library of Congress
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| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
PS3552.R4825 .K55 2002 |
| Dewey |
813.54 |
| ISBN |
9780765303554 |
| Cover Price |
$25.95 |
| No. of Pages |
459 |
| First Edition |
No |
| Rare |
No |
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| Notes/Review |
I give four stars because I rounded up. It's not quite a full four stars for me.
I really enjoyed most of it. I might have enjoyed it more if it had stayed true to itself. Most of it is a detective story, where our hero can "clone" himself any number of times. These clones begin as direct copies of our hero, knowing what he knows. They live a day, and typically come home and have their new experiences "inloaded" to the original. These copies can be given particular attributes (some are better at concentrating, some have no sense of smell, and so on).
The book is written as first person, from our hero's point of view. Because we have a number of copies of him, we get a first person story from multiple characters, except that they're all the same guy. This narrative is broken out by chapter, and each chapter heading tells us which viewpoint we're getting. It's a bit of a thrill ride.
Things kind of bog down a bit, for me anyway, during the climax. [Brin literally gives us a deus ex machina ending. The climax is followed by a denouement that was a bit less than satisfying.] |
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