The most exciting new voice in sceince fiction has written a novel with enormous cross-over appeal....
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The most exciting new voice in sceince fiction has written a novel with enormous cross-over appeal. In an L.A. where Fictional characters are cloned into living beings, the author Niles Golan is on the verge of hitting the big-time - if he can just stay on top of reality long enough to make it.In Hollywood, where last year&;s stars are this year&;s busboys, Fictionals are everywhere. Niles Golan&;s therapist is a Fictional. So is his best friend. So (maybe) is the woman in the bar he can&;t stop staring at. Fictionals &; characters &;translated&; into living beings for movies and TV using cloning technology &; are a part of daily life in LA now. Sometimes the problem is knowing who&;s real and who&;s not. Divorced, alcoholic and hanging on by a thread, Niles &; author of Death By Degrees: A Kurt Power Novel and many others &; has been hired to write a big-budget reboot of a classic movie. If he does this right, the studio might bring one of Niles&; own characters to life. Somewhere beneath the movie &; beneath the TV show it was inspired by, the children&;s book behind that and the story behind that &; is the kernel of something important. If he can just hold it together long enough...
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