- Science fiction, Fiction, Cloning, Long Now Manual for Civilization
"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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Contemporary, classical in form, cool and plot-driven.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- David Brin
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 459
- Publisher
- Orbit, Tor, Time Warner Books Uk
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781841491523
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