Kil'n People
2 journalers for this copy...
Gente de barro is impossible to find, so I've gone to the original version, quite easier.
Al Morris is a private investigator. Actually, he's lots of private investigators. For he lives in a world in which every person, every day, can be in any number of places at the same time. It's the world of dittos. it's our world. Welcome to the future.
Ia a business where information is the currency, Al's dittos are loaded. And with a number of cases on the go at once, it is crucial that Al doesn't lose track of his selves.
But that's exactly what happens when Al is drawn into a plot that could throw this delicately balanced world in to chaos.
In Kil'n People, award-winning SF writer David Brin has imagined a new future for mankind, as thrilling as it is terrifying. Be warned: it may be our tomorrow.
Al Morris is a private investigator. Actually, he's lots of private investigators. For he lives in a world in which every person, every day, can be in any number of places at the same time. It's the world of dittos. it's our world. Welcome to the future.
Ia a business where information is the currency, Al's dittos are loaded. And with a number of cases on the go at once, it is crucial that Al doesn't lose track of his selves.
But that's exactly what happens when Al is drawn into a plot that could throw this delicately balanced world in to chaos.
In Kil'n People, award-winning SF writer David Brin has imagined a new future for mankind, as thrilling as it is terrifying. Be warned: it may be our tomorrow.
Finished. If you have to think of previous reference, one answer could the the Multiplicity film. Only that it's a comedy, and the science fiction is so simple.
In this case I've found it hard at the beginning, not being able to fully grasp the story. You don't really know if you are losing detail due to the non-native language, or it's the new landscape the book proposes what scapes your understanding.
I'd say the reason is mostly the second.
You start reading about colors, properties, features, attacks, defenses and ways to flee. Only after a big number of pages do you get familiarized with all this kind of things, leaving your mind free to get the story.
Which is not just about people getting duplicates of themselves. This is just a taken-for-granted technology that allows the author to write a story with a detective as main character but that, in fact can be in three different threads, three different places, each one the detective, but with different quirks, ideas and experience.
A plot around mysterious attacks, not really knowing who's good, who's bad, is competed with some touches of philosophy, religion, politics, ethics, physics...
And the rhythm is good. It's usual, not only in thrillers but in all kinds of narrative, to split the story in two or more threads, with separate times or characters, to keep everything alive and to be able to introduce small cliffhangers at the end of some chapters.
As said, this comes here naturally; we have three characters, the real-Albert and his two other ditectives (yes, the author enjoys the puns on words, and adds lots of them). Each of them follows a different series of events, without much contact between them.
Once you get the hang of it, the episode of, let's call it soulistics gets to appear. A kind of growing climax, but maybe too complex and out of the previous story, so much that it gets a bit confusing. On the other hand, it's a plausible explanation for the previous events, and is closed properly, leaving a situation a bit different than what we had, but that we can believe possible. And that, without leaving an open end, could make a good starting point for a continuation.
I also have the sensation that a good film could be made of this story. Maybe not easy to do, as the plot is a bit complex, and the FX & makeup people would see interesting challenges to solve. I'm not so much into sci-fi movies, but it if it ever gets filmed I'd gladly watch it.
In this case I've found it hard at the beginning, not being able to fully grasp the story. You don't really know if you are losing detail due to the non-native language, or it's the new landscape the book proposes what scapes your understanding.
I'd say the reason is mostly the second.
You start reading about colors, properties, features, attacks, defenses and ways to flee. Only after a big number of pages do you get familiarized with all this kind of things, leaving your mind free to get the story.
Which is not just about people getting duplicates of themselves. This is just a taken-for-granted technology that allows the author to write a story with a detective as main character but that, in fact can be in three different threads, three different places, each one the detective, but with different quirks, ideas and experience.
A plot around mysterious attacks, not really knowing who's good, who's bad, is competed with some touches of philosophy, religion, politics, ethics, physics...
And the rhythm is good. It's usual, not only in thrillers but in all kinds of narrative, to split the story in two or more threads, with separate times or characters, to keep everything alive and to be able to introduce small cliffhangers at the end of some chapters.
As said, this comes here naturally; we have three characters, the real-Albert and his two other ditectives (yes, the author enjoys the puns on words, and adds lots of them). Each of them follows a different series of events, without much contact between them.
Once you get the hang of it, the episode of, let's call it soulistics gets to appear. A kind of growing climax, but maybe too complex and out of the previous story, so much that it gets a bit confusing. On the other hand, it's a plausible explanation for the previous events, and is closed properly, leaving a situation a bit different than what we had, but that we can believe possible. And that, without leaving an open end, could make a good starting point for a continuation.
I also have the sensation that a good film could be made of this story. Maybe not easy to do, as the plot is a bit complex, and the FX & makeup people would see interesting challenges to solve. I'm not so much into sci-fi movies, but it if it ever gets filmed I'd gladly watch it.
I got it from Olepinto in a meetup.
Ok, so when I started reading it, it was all like "Hey wait, haven't I watched this film?" I was so sure I even googled it, just to know the name of the film. It seems I was wrong. I suppose that I've maybe read the book in spanish but so many years ago that I no longer remembered much, but certain "scenes".
Cause the book is quite like a movie, I've to admit that.
Beyond this, though it's an interesting thriller, it seemed to me that the author overcomplicates the plot and the ending becomes a bit weird and philosophical. I certainly preferred the first part of the book, with the society depicted after the new "golem era". If not for anything else, it's worth to read for this reason.
So I'll store it in this part of my bookshelf reserved for books "to be released in the wild". And this will be for sure his destiny unless someone will claim it before.
Thanks for sharing!
Ok, so when I started reading it, it was all like "Hey wait, haven't I watched this film?" I was so sure I even googled it, just to know the name of the film. It seems I was wrong. I suppose that I've maybe read the book in spanish but so many years ago that I no longer remembered much, but certain "scenes".
Cause the book is quite like a movie, I've to admit that.
Beyond this, though it's an interesting thriller, it seemed to me that the author overcomplicates the plot and the ending becomes a bit weird and philosophical. I certainly preferred the first part of the book, with the society depicted after the new "golem era". If not for anything else, it's worth to read for this reason.
So I'll store it in this part of my bookshelf reserved for books "to be released in the wild". And this will be for sure his destiny unless someone will claim it before.
Thanks for sharing!
