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	Kiln People - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kiln People is a 2002 science fiction novel by David Brin.
		Most people use dittos to do their work, as they are affordable even for the poor.
		Kiln People is notable for its extensive literary and conceptual references, including those to Firesign Theatre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kiln_People (637 words)

	Metroland Online - Books
		In Kiln People, however, David Brin sets up a science-fiction premise uniquely suited to narrative experimentation: In the not-too-distant future, people regularly make copies of themselves, or “dittos,” by imprinting their brain patterns on disposable clay bodies that expire after 24 hours.
		Kiln People is written in first person, with alternating chapters narrated by four different characters who are all versions of the same man. The potential for confusion is great, but Brin has made it remarkably easy to keep straight the who, what, where, why and when of each Albert Morris.
		In Kiln People, the ethical controversy is quickly apparent: One faction believes that dittos are an abomination against nature and should be destroyed, while another believes that dittos’ lives are sacred and enslaving them is wrong.
	www.metroland.net /back_issues/vol_25_no26/books.html (804 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		Through the medium of living "clay"—peptide- and protein-laced "ceramic" cells infused with limited "elan" energies that allow a mere 24 hours of existence—all of Earth's 9 billion "archies" (the archetypical baseline humans) are able to duplicate themselves to their hearts' content (and so far as their pocketbooks will allow).
		The billionaire owner of Universal Kilns, Aeneas Polom, his murdered partner, Dr. Yosil Maharal, and Maharal's adult daughter, Ritu, as well a handful of lesser figures, will all seek to move Morris around as a pawn in their plans.
		Kiln People has the same crazed oneiric intensity and recomplicated plotting, the throwaway mortality and "poor superman" empathy that marked the best of van Vogt's work.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue246/books.html (825 words)

	SFDG Notes on KILN PEOPLE
		The third thing that seemed to bother people (even people who really enjoyed the book) was the ending, with its somewhat out-of-nowhere metaphysics and "souls".
		Along these lines, several people enjoyed the middle section of the book, where four versions of the main character did first-person narration, and these four versions started out very similar, but ended up diverging because of their different experiences over the day.
		The people who really liked the book said that it was well written--I think both TC and Steve Simms found it to be a real page-turner with good characters.
	www.pannis.com /SFDG/specific-KilnPeople.php (526 words)

	Kiln - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A kiln is required to come to a controlled temperature, often very high, and so the design of the ovens normally focuses on insulation, and the ability to add fuel over a course of time.
		Kilns are an essential part of the manufacture of all ceramics, which, by definition, require heat treatment, often at high temperature.
		Traditional anagama kilns are also built on a slope to allow for a better draft.A style of kiln known as Kazegama, "Wind kiln" in Japanese, was developed by Steve Davis of the USA in 1997 as an alternative to traditional wood firing practices such as those achieved in an Anagama.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kiln (1675 words)

	Matsuyama kiln
		Yamamoto was from Matsuyama in the village of Chokushi in Enuma Gun.
		The kiln was operated in 1868 by Kinoshita Naomasa from Koshi village.
		The ruin of the kiln still exist today near Matsuyama at a small hill in the middle of Hiranuma plain.
	www.gbouvier.com /kiln_history/g_matsuyama.htm (552 words)

	Amazon.com: Kiln People (The Kiln Books): Books: David Brin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As Brin juggles his multiple protagonists and antagonists, he urges the reader to question notions of memory, individualism, and technology, and to answer the schizoid question "which 'you' is 'you?'" Brin's enjoyment is evident as he plays with his terracotta creations' existential angst and simultaneously deconstructs the familiar streetwise detective meme--complete with a multilayered ending.
		Kiln People is a fun read, with plenty of plot twists around the central idea that society has discovered a way to make a cheap replaceable you.
		Most interesting is the plethora of changes to social mores as most people spend most of their time in throwaway bodies and the new social groups that result in support and opposition of cloning and cheap throwaway selves.
	www.amazon.com /Kiln-People-Books-David-Brin/dp/0765342618 (2866 words)

	Home-Built Dehumidifying Kilns
		A homemade DH kiln will work to dry lumber, but the capacity is limited and compressor life is limited.
		People with existing DH kilns may be able to add more information to this.
		In fact, some kiln sales people talk about how their kiln can dry wood faster than the standard, but in reality all they have done is to remove the safety factors.
	www.woodweb.com /knowledge_base/HomeBuilt_Dehumidifying_Kilns.html (1982 words)

	Kiln People Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kiln People is set several decades in the future.
		The key technological innovation presented in the book is "golemtech" -- it has become possible to imprint a person's "soul", or "Standing Wave", into a clay model, a golem or ditto, which will then have all one's memories, and which can do errands for their "archetype".
		Recreations include, predictably, unusual sex using special dittos optimized for heightened sensation; as well as "clay operas" -- realistic dramas enacted with dittos; and dangerous sports in which the loss of a ditto is regretted only if it results in complete enough destruction that the memories cannot be inloaded.
	www.sff.net /people/Richard.Horton/kpeople.htm (626 words)

	Emerald City - #79
		Kiln People is entirely new territory, and is one of Brin's most ambitious novels to date.
		Albert Morris, the hero of Kiln People, is a private detective who specialises in copyright crimes, in particular the illicit copying of body images such as that of the famous dominatrix, Gineen Wammaker.
		I guess that one or two people might be offended by the enthusiastic coupling that goes on (and not just between the satyrs and the nymphs).
	www.emcit.com /emcit079.shtml (7401 words)

	David Brin: Kiln People
		Albert Morris is a detective, whose rare gift of being able to create many and accurate golems aides him in his chosen profession, although he has found himself stymied by the mysterious ditnapper (a ditto, or dit-, is another term for the golems), Beta.
		Kiln People uses the golems as earlier novels have used robots, a source of inexpensive labor, both menial and otherwise.
		Kiln People is a strong novel, as are Brin's other stand-alone books, although it doesn't entirely work.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/kiln.html (513 words)

	Phobos Entertainment - Reviews - Books - Kiln People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		People in this near future world regularly create dittos, or dits, of themselves to do their drudgework, proxy for them in dull classes and perform dangerous tasks, and within 24 hours (the dit’s lifespan), download the experiences back into their own brains.
		In most other respects, Kiln People is classic Brin—witty, thoughtful, optimistic and insightful future shock reading.
		The technological conceit he works with seems highly implausible at times, but his brave new world of human indulgence and ditto decadence, as well as his intriguing explorations of identity and the soul, will stand the test of time.
	www.phobosweb.com /reviews/books/kilnpeople.html (376 words)

	The Templeton Gate - Authors - David Brin's Kiln People
		Kiln People is the first David Brin novel I have read in a long time.
		This is a stand-alone novel, not connected to any of his other series, but it seems there may be a sequel soon (not that it needs it).
		Kiln Time is mentioned as forthcoming at fantasticfiction.com (from amazon's U.K. branch), but there is no listing for it on amazon.com as of my most recent search there.
	members.tripod.com /templetongate/kilnpeople.htm (900 words)

	Book Concerns: Kiln People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kiln People by David Brin Â© 2002, Tor Books ISBN: 0765303558 David Brin is one of the best contemporary SF writers around, and has many awards to substantiate this.
		These replicates are the KILN PEOPLE, and Brin's protagonist has several of them.
		Kiln People is worth the read if only for the ingenious story line and writing endeavors.
	book-concerns.kaios.com /2005/01/kiln-people.htm (360 words)

	[No title]
		Kilns and Furnaces for ceramics, pottery, heat treating, enameling, dentistry, laboratory testing and glass fusing.
		Though this isn’t essential, you could also place a kiln shelf in the bottom of the kiln.
		If you use silica sand on the kiln shelves, be careful not to allow the sand to seep onto the firebrick bottom.
	www.paragonweb.com /Kiln_Pointer.cfm?PID=91 (275 words)

	SERVICE & SERVICABLITY OF L&L KILNS
		LandL kilns are first of all designed to be easy to service.
		Sectional kilns (especially ours which are so easy to take apart) are easy to fix.
		And because of the serviceability of LandL kilns most customers are able to perform their own service.
	www.hotkilns.com /service.html (352 words)

	Kiln People by David Brin
		Kiln People is an excellent example of both.
		The book takes place a century or so from now in a world where thirty or forty years previously, a technology was discovered which allows people to record a copy of their soul temporarily on a clay matrix to create golems.
		Besides all this, Kiln People tells a decent story about Albert Morris, a detective who gets involved much too deeply in a very complex plot and must – somehow – unravel it before it unravels him.
	www.nesfa.org /reviews/Olson/KilnPeople.html (360 words)

	Review: Kiln People by David Brin
		The hero is a private eye, tracking down primarily people who copy other people's copies, and there's a nice mystery set up of the murder of a scientist.
		The infodump machine warms up and starts spewing, the hero starts treating the people around him like wads of textbook psychology instead of people, and then the entire story derails into an eyeroll-inducing paroxysm of metaphysical claptrap.
		And then, to add insult to injury, Brin proceeds to dismantle any reason the reader had to care about the mystery and investigation by engaging in some of the most unnecessary and egregious cheating I have ever seen in a detective novel.
	www.eyrie.org /~eagle/reviews/books/0-765-34261-8.html (773 words)

	Interfaith group adopts Miss. town - Roanoke.com
		In the southern Mississippi town of Kiln - population 2,000 - the little post office, meat markets and hospitals were gone, replaced by lawn mowers and boats in the road, cars stuck in trees, houses blown into the middle of streets.
		Mitchell, a Roanoke resident, was in Kiln after the storm.
		The unincorporated town of Kiln is being adopted by a coalition of 27 Roanoke-area churches and temples.
	www.roanoke.com /news/roanoke/wb/33434 (734 words)

	Buying a kiln tutorial
		The main distinguishing feature of most glass kilns is that they are relatively shallow, and they use an element in the lid which provides even temperatures across the glass piece, which is important for fusing glass.
		These kilns are typically small kilns that run on normal 120v.
		There are small gas kilns which look like the traditional round electric kiln, and can be used as an all purpose kiln, but we don't recommend them for beginners.
	www.bigceramicstore.com /Supplies/kilns/buying-a-kiln-tutorial.htm (988 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Kiln People, by David Brin, Mass Market Paperback, FIRST
		This is the new human society, populated by people and their disposable selves.
		Albert Morris, private investigator, is his own sidekick as he attempts to uncover the murderer of a prominent imprinting research scientist, capture a criminal mastermind specializing in ditto copyright infringement and foil a conspiracy aimed at destroying the major ditto manufacturer and pinning the blame on several Alberts.
		Both 'Earth' and 'Kiln People' take off in a new direction and both are more hard SF than the Uplift novels.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=53K4A35BS5&isbn=0765342618&itm=1 (1598 words)

	Test Kilns - info and links
		People often get small test kilns to test glazes before using them on a lot of work in a larger kiln.
		One criticism of test kilns is that people often get very different results in their test kiln than when they do real pieces in their real kiln.
		Sometimes people's main kilns are huge (15 cubic feet for example), so for them 2 cubic feet is a nice size test kiln.
	www.bigceramicstore.com /supplies/kilns/test-kilns.htm (402 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Kiln People is about something quite different—making truly disposable temporary copies of yourself.
		To be warily delighted by change and transformation and to share that wariness—and delight—with the people who will be experiencing rapid change throughout their lives.
		I can never get over the near infinite capacity of creative-smart people to convince themselves that they invented the very same tropes they were weaned on.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue326/interview.html (2840 words)

	4320 by Evenheat
		This is probably the first kiln most people purchase when beginning with ceramics.
		This kiln has been in demand for nearly 50 years.
		The 4320 is equipped with Low / Medium / High switches and Dawson Kiln Sitter.
	www.evenheat-kiln.com /cerkilns/classic/4320/4320.htm (165 words)

	Author's Summer Reading List - David Brin
		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.
		Take the notion of golems --- temporary clay people (not clones!) --- and now imagine a near future when everybody can make them.
		People seem to have even adjusted to this new way of life, until....
	www.authorsontheweb.com /features/summer02/brin.asp (175 words)

	David Brin's Official Web Site: My Other Science Fiction Novels
		The title of my new novel -- the most original thing I've done in years -- is Kiln People, which received four SECOND PLACE awards: the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel; the 2003 Locus Award; the 2003 Arthur C. Clarke Award; and the 2003 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
		This talent shows strongly in Kiln People, a novel which is deep and insightful and often hilarious, all at the same time."
		As for Global Warming, a looming refugee crisis, the need for young people to demand a place amid an aging population, the desperate struggle to preserve species and all the rest...
	www.davidbrin.com /othersfbooks.html (1483 words)

	Kent Information & Libraries Network
		Each serves a particular group of people and their libraries or resources are limited to that group.
		This means that a huge range of materials in a host of educational, public and voluntary libraries could be used if people knew where they were and how to get to them.
		KILN operates a KILN Passport scheme which aims to make more use of existing access arrangements and to allow you to find a library that can meet either your own needs or those of your customer.
	www.kiln.org.uk (180 words)

	Books, Kiln People
		In his "Kiln People," award-winning science fiction author David Brin leaves those sorts of banalities in the dust.
		But don't for a second think that Kiln People is a dry philosophical text or a turgid Luddite tome.
		This particular gumshoe, however, works at a time when people can make temporary clay copies of themselves, send them out to do the boring or dangerous things in life, then download the experiences of their throwaway alternates.
	www.thepanamanews.com /pn/v_09/issue_01/review_02.html (617 words)

	Blog, Jvstin Style: Recent Books--Kiln People?
		Thanks to Arref and Li for sharing their experiences with Kiln People.
		It IS up for a Hugo, and I nearly picked it up the other day, but wound up getting Fallen Dragon instead (see the entry on the Amazon.com quirk).
		Kiln People was the runner-up and if I had more money and was gainfully employed, likely would have picked it up, then and there.
	www.skyseastone.net /jvstin/unjvst/003103.html (119 words)

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