Kiln People (The Kiln Books) (NO. 1 OF 2)

Brin, David

ISBN 10: 0765342618 / ISBN 13: 9780765342614

Published by Tor Science Fiction, 2003

Seller Inventory # 0765342618-3-22005492

Synopsis:

<p>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>David Brin's <i>Kiln People</i> is a 2003 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel.</p>

About the Author: <p><b>David Brin</b> is the author of more than a dozen novels, including six volumes in his award-winning Uplift saga, as well as two short story collections and a nonfiction work, <i>The Transparent Society</i>, about privacy in the electronic age. His <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>The Postman</i> was the basis for a major motion picture starring Kevin Costner. Brin was a fellow at the California Space Institute and at the Jet Propulsion Lab, studying spacecraft design, cometary physics, and analyses of the likelihood of life in the universe. He now lives in southern California.</p>

Bibliographic Details

Title: Kiln People (The Kiln Books) (NO. 1 OF 2)
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good