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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled We Can Build You about Nobody, Borges, Ursula with the genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction?
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conversations.value: 'The fact that what the author is writing about is reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation - this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own homegrown Borges.' Ursula K. Le Guin 'No other writer of his generation had such a powerful intellectual presence. He has stamped himself not only on our memories but in our imaginations' Brian W. Aldiss
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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book titled We Can Build You?
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conversations.value: We Can Build You: We Can Build You is set in the then-future year of 1982.\nIt centers on Louis Rosen, a small businessman whose company produces spinets and electronic organs.\nRosen's partner wants to begin production of simulacra, or androids, based on famous Civil War figures.\nThe firm completes two prototypes, one of Edwin Stanton and one of Abraham Lincoln.\nRosen then attempts to sell the robot patents to Sam Barrows, an influential businessman who is opening up lunar real estate for purchase and colonization.\nUnfortunately, while the Stanton simulacrum proves able to adapt to contemporaryS.\nsociety, the Lincoln simulacrum proves unable to do so, possibly because the original experienced schizophrenia.\nAt the same time, Louis begins a relationship with Pris Frauenzimmer, the schizophrenic daughter of his business partner, who has designed both simulacra.\nThis becomes an obsession and Louis himself begins to hallucinate about Pris.\nAt the same time, Pris defects to Barrows but then loses faith in the benevolence of their partnership when his objectives are disclosed as more prosaic than hers, with his plans to use simulacra colonists to entice human settlement on the Moon and other human interplanetary colonies within the solar system.\nAfter Pris's destruction of a John Wilkes Booth prototype simulacrum, the Stanton/Lincoln simulacra strand of the plot abruptly terminates.\nThe remainder of the book deals with Louis Rosen's admission of schizophrenia and his Jungian therapeutic treatment at the Kasanin Centre in Kansas from where Pris was originally released.\nUnder the influence of his therapist Rosen creates a virtual hallucinatory reality of his own where he resumes his relationship with Pris, marries her, has children and grows old together with her, finally culminating with him hitting her hallucinatory doppelgänger in a fit of pique.\nThis concludes his final therapy session and he is released from the Kasanin clinic after his doctor accuses him of malingering.\nThe end of the novel posits the query of whether he was actually batty to begin with.\nThe real-world Pris, however, has become unwell again, and she is returned to Kasanin following her short-lived career as a simulacra designer.
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conversations.value: \nThe real-world Pris, however, has become unwell again, and she is returned to Kasanin following her short-lived career as a simulacra designer.\nIt centers on Louis Rosen, a small businessman whose company produces spinets and electronic organs.\nRosen's partner wants to begin production of simulacra, or androids, based on famous Civil War figures.\nThe firm completes two prototypes, one of Edwin Stanton and one of Abraham Lincoln.\nRosen then attempts to sell the robot patents to Sam Barrows, an influential businessman who is opening up lunar real estate for purchase and colonization.\nUnfortunately, while the Stanton simulacrum proves able to adapt to contemporaryS.\nsociety, the Lincoln simulacrum proves unable to do so, possibly because the original experienced schizophrenia.\nAt the same time, Louis begins a relationship with Pris Frauenzimmer, the schizophrenic daughter of his business partner, who has designed both simulacra.\nThis becomes an obsession and Louis himself begins to hallucinate about Pris.\nAt the same time, Pris defects to Barrows but then loses faith in the benevolence of their partnership when his objectives are disclosed as more prosaic than hers, with his plans to use simulacra colonists to entice human settlement on the Moon and other human interplanetary colonies within the solar system.\nAfter Pris's destruction of a John Wilkes Booth prototype simulacrum, the Stanton/Lincoln simulacra strand of the plot abruptly terminates.\nThe remainder of the book deals with Louis Rosen's admission of schizophrenia and his Jungian therapeutic treatment at the Kasanin Centre in Kansas from where Pris was originally released.\nUnder the influence of his therapist Rosen creates a virtual hallucinatory reality of his own where he resumes his relationship with Pris, marries her, has children and grows old together with her, finally culminating with him hitting her hallucinatory doppelgänger in a fit of pique.\nThis concludes his final therapy session and he is released from the Kasanin clinic after his doctor accuses him of malingering.\nThe end of the novel posits the query of whether he was actually batty to begin with.We Can Build You: We Can Build You is set in the then-future year of 1982.