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A review by titusfortner
Kiln People by David Brin
3.0
This book started out with a great action sequence. Then we find out that the protagonist is a detective, and I've been craving a good detective story for a while. The concept of clay copies of yourself was promising.
Then things got convoluted. Albert made 4 copies of himself and the reader and spends the rest of the book bouncing back and forth between them for way too many long chapters. Lots of politics between multiple parties and trying to remember which character knew which details from which characters...
Then we started getting into the weird metaphysical nonsense surrounding the observer effect.
Every time you think the book is about to wrap up, you realize you still have a lot of book left.
There was a character referenced early in the book that I was extremely excited to meet, but that doesn't happen until the end and was utterly disappointing.
At the end, I'd mostly lost interest. There are some interesting ideas here, but this book would have been much better at half the size. 2.5 stars.
Then things got convoluted. Albert made 4 copies of himself and the reader and spends the rest of the book bouncing back and forth between them for way too many long chapters. Lots of politics between multiple parties and trying to remember which character knew which details from which characters...
Then we started getting into the weird metaphysical nonsense surrounding the observer effect.
Every time you think the book is about to wrap up, you realize you still have a lot of book left.
There was a character referenced early in the book that I was extremely excited to meet, but that doesn't happen until the end and was utterly disappointing.
At the end, I'd mostly lost interest. There are some interesting ideas here, but this book would have been much better at half the size. 2.5 stars.