Kiln people

459 pages

English language

Published Jan. 16, 2002 by Tor.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-0355-4
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OCLC Number:
48449616

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5 stars (2 reviews)

"Thanks to the new technology of imprinting, people in a near-future America can copy their personalities into animated clay bodies (called "dittos" or "golems"), which last a single day. Albert Morris, private investigator, is his own sidekick as he attempts to uncover the murderer of a prominent imprinting research scientist."--Amazon.com.

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5 stars

Somehow I found myself totally gripped by the profusion of narrators. The clay thing is a very old, almost biblical force, and yet the world is painted with a very real, Graham-Storrs-like postmodern future, with a great licensed PI voice and a superb noir feel to the whole thing. There's a lot going on, and it's easy to lose your thread if you're not concentrating I'd imagine, but if you can stay the course this is an exciting, clever, and compelling story.

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Subjects

  • Cloning -- Fiction
  • Science fiction