This was one of my favourite books when I was arround 15 years old. Selena Menard, daughter of the famous doctor who invented the cloning process, attempts to help the clones regain their lost freedom. Clones are owned by a company, known as Komsol, and are engineered into being the CPU of enormous computers that handdle all the informaion necesary to run a planet. Few of the clones are aware they are really humans. This novel takes the reader through Sven Soronson's trip from being enslaved in a computer to achieving life as a "human being". Along the way, a few new things are discovered about clones, maybe they are not as human as they seem ...Lief writes in a simple straight forward style, similar to Asimov. The novel is layed out as the "foundation trilogy". Humans scattered in a wide galaxy, inhabiting a few planets, but with the will to take over it all. This book is specially good as an introduction to Science Fiction for kids 14 and up.
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