Kiln People by David Brin, Tor, $25.95, ISBN 0765303558
DAVID BRIN has always had a talent for inventing new twists to familiar
science, and in Kiln People he’s come up with a cracker.
Bursting with ideas, memorable characters and witty new slang, his novel
propels us into a colourful and fully realised future. In it, the technique
called “soulistics” makes it possible to imprint a copy of a human soul’s
“standing wave” into a specially prepared clay duplicate to produce short-lived
autonomous copies of the original human. These “dittos” live for just 24 hours.
Millions of people lead multiple lives…
