Kiln People
Kiln People
Author: David Brin
Desc: 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.