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David Brin is the award-winning author of numerous books, including Kiln People, Foundtation's Triumph, Heaven's Reach, Infinity's Shore, and The Postman. To learn more about his work visit http://www.davidbrin.com.
Kiln People
Take the notion of golems --- temporary clay people (not clones!) --- and now imagine a near future when everybody can make them. Using a "home copier" you ditto your memories --- perhaps even a genuine imprint of your soul --- and off goes the duplicate to run your errands, attend your classes, or do all the drudgery work. Then, at day's end, you download the golem's memories. As a citizen of this near future, you've duplicated yourself a zillion times and take it for granted, sometimes being the original, sometimes the copy. You live your life in parallel, sending expensive "study golems" to the library while cheap models clean the house and your real body works out at the gym. Two thirds of the Earth's population consists of temporaries made of clay. People seem to have even adjusted to this new way of life, until....
David Brin's Summer Reading List
Year of Rice & Salt
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Networks and Netwars
by by John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt
Chasing Science: Science as a Spectator Sport
by Frederik Pohl
Myth of the American Superhero
by Robert Jewitt and John Shelton Lawrence
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
by Erving Goffman
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