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Darth Brutus's Bigger & Badder Book Diary 2022
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Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The problem is that the only prospective buyer is a rapacious billionaire whose plans for the simulacra could land Louis in jail. Then there's the added complication that someone--or something--like Abraham Lincoln may not want to be sold.
Is an electronic Lincoln any less alive than his creators? Is a machine that cares and suffers inferior to the woman Louis loves--a borderline psychopath who does neither? With irresistible momentum, intelligence, and wit, Philip K. Dick
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Manufacturer: Vintage
Release date: 31 May 1994
ISBN-10 : 067975296X | ISBN-13: 9780679752967
Release date: 31 May 1994
ISBN-10 : 067975296X | ISBN-13: 9780679752967
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Darth Brutus's Bigger & Badder Book Diary 2022 (107 books items)"4.1. The premise and the first half are actually pretty good, since it's all about robots, but the story falls apart quickly."
Darth Brutus rated this 4/10 4 years, 11 months ago