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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book about Albert, Albert\'s, Ritu entitled Kiln People?
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conversations.value: Kiln People: The novel takes place in a future in which people can create clay duplicates (called "dittos" or golems) of themselves.\nA ditto retains all of the archetype\'s memories up until the time of duplication.\nThe duplicate lasts only about a day, and the original person (referred to in the book as an archie, from "archetype", or "rig", from "original") can then choose whether or not to upload the ditto\'s memories.\nMost dittos want to inload, so that their experience will be continuous with that of their archie.\nMost people use dittos to do their work, as they are affordable even for the poor.\nMany also use dittos to experience pleasure which could hurt a real person.\nDittos come in many colors, which signify their quality and intended role.\nA cheap ditto suitable for housework is green, whereas a quality one for business is gray.\nEbonies are highly specialized dittos that are good at intelligent data analysis; platinums are only used by the very rich, and closely resemble real people.\nIvory dittos specialize in the reception of pleasure and sexual fulfillment.\nOther colors of ditto (such as purple, red, and yellow) exist, but are rarely mentioned in the novel.\nAlbert Morris is a private detective who uses dittos extensively.\nHis dittos are usually imprinted faithfully; indeed, his dittos have a fidelity rate rarely seen in the novel\'s world.\nThe book opens with a green ditto being chased across the city by ditto thugs of Beta, a criminal figure engaged in copyright violation by kidnapping desirable dittos and duplicating them.\nAlbert\'s green makes it to safety, allowing Albert to inload his memories and bust Beta\'s latest scheme.\nThe next morning, Albert makes three dittos (two grays and a green) and sends them off to do his business.\nAfter four hours of sleep, he imprints an ebony to help him work on a case.\nOne gray meets with Ritu Maharal, the daughter of Yosil Maharal (named after the rabbi of the legendary original golems), one of the founders of Universal Kilns (UK) who has disappeared under suspicious circumstances.\nYosil is later discovered dead, and Albert\'s gray meets the surviving Maharal ditto (or ghost, a ditto that survives after the original has died).\nditMaharal runs away, and when the gray follows, he is captured by the ditto.\nThe second gray gets involved in a plan to infiltrate Universal Kilns to see if they are illegally withholding technical advancements to the duplicating process.\nHe is a dupe of unknown forces, and is actually carrying a bomb into the UK factory, but he realizes just in time and manages to minimize the damage done when he blows up.\nThe green comes out of the kiln and starts doing the chores he was made to do, but soon displays a lack of motivation to complete his assigned tasks and instead heads off to the beach.\nOnce there, he decides that he is an imperfect copy of Albert, or a "frankie" (a fictional slang word derived from Frankenstein\'s monster).\nThis is an unprecedented occurrence for Albert due to his unusual ditto-making prowess.\nThe green decides not to continue doing chores, and claims independence.\nThough an imperfect copy of Albert, the green figures prominently in the plot.\nMeanwhile, real Albert disguises himself as a gray ditto and meets with Ritu, who is also disguised as a gray.\nOn the way to investigate Yosil\'s cabin, where the eccentric scientist spent much of his time, they both are made aware of an attack on Albert\'s home.\nShortly after, Albert and Ritu end up stranded in the desert after an attempt on their lives.\nThey eventually make it to ditMaharal\'s secret lab where the first gray is being held.\nThe green frankie makes it there as well, soon to expire.\nditMaharal has constructed an apparatus that he plans to use to elevate himself to godhood, using two of Albert\'s dittos to amplify himself and the deaths of over a million people to fuel his elevation.\nThe green and the real Albert join forces to destroy the apparatus and disable the bioweapons that would have been used in an attack on a nearby city.\nHowever, the real Albert\'s mind winds up elevating, leaving his body in a comatose-like state.\nAs the book ends, Albert and the green frankie agree to upload the green\'s memories into Albert\'s body, effectively replacing Albert\'s personality and memories with the frankie\'s: Albert will attempt to ascend to the higher plane of existence, and the frankie gets to lead the life he wanted with Clara (Albert\'s girlfriend) in Albert\'s body.