Kiln People (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Brin
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The mid-twenty-first century
- Setting: Los Angeles
- Principal Characters: Albert Morris, Beta, Aeneas Kaolin, Ritu Maharal, Dr. Yosil Maharal, Clara Gonzalez, Malachai Montmorillin, Gineen Wammaker, James Gadarene
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Immortality, Future, Science or scientists, Twenty-first century, Human race, Violence, Detectives, Death or dying, Bioengineering or biotechnology, Mortality, Private investigators, Technology, Artificial intelligence, Clones or cloning
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA
Kiln People depicts a society in which the capacity to manufacture inexpensive but short-lived “dittoes” of real people has had far-reaching consequences. Freed of the necessity to work or perform other onerous social tasks, those who can afford the new technology use their dittoed replicas for a variety of purposes. For the average law-abiding individual, dittoes are labor-saving and errand-running devices that can also be employed to experience the vicarious thrills of extreme sex and violence. Those who lead more dangerous lives, however, such as private detective Albert...
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