{"product_id":"9781429971300","title":"Kiln People","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Brin's \u003ci\u003eKiln People\u003c\/i\u003e is a 2003 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Doherty Associates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122435539184,"sku":"9781429971300","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429971300_p0.jpg?v=1763749974","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429971300","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}