num_pages: 569
description: 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.
language: English
title: Kiln People
titlecomplete: Kiln People
genres: Cyberpunk, Dystopia, Novels, Science Fiction, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 5966
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel
publisher: Tor Science Fiction