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Duplicate #1
Cinder Unit
The time machine was alive beneath her. It whirred and vibrated and gradually began to shake.
The dial was set for two hours. Even that was dangerous. If she was caught, she would be terminated. But still, she had to do it.
There was a ball waiting for her and a handsome man and countless other opportunities that, as a clone, she would never again get the chance to experience.
Just for one night, she wanted to be special.
Cinder-Ella pulled the lever down.
The time machine burst into motion.
The dial was set for two hours. Even that was dangerous. If she was caught, she would be terminated. But still, she had to do it.
There was a ball waiting for her and a handsome man and countless other opportunities that, as a clone, she would never again get the chance to experience.
Just for one night, she wanted to be special.
Cinder-Ella pulled the lever down.
The time machine burst into motion.
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First published November 12, 2016
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H.A. Kinani
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July 17, 2017
The Ella of this novel is not a step-daughter pining for a dead father, but a clone. The duplicate Ellas are all cleaning girls, though what they clean depends on where they are assigned. The Cinder units all clean soot and ashes (and cinders, of course) from the buildings where they toil. Kitchen Ellas clean pots and pans, and so on.
When unit Cinder-03-Ella-11 is reassigned to a top-secret science building, her new job is to clean soot, cinders and ash from the two-room lab of Mr. Anthony. The only cinder-cleaner in the building, she loses her numbers to become simply Cinder-Ella. The sinister Mother, a prototype-model robot, seems determined to break her Cinder unit, and the human user of the lab is equally determined not to have his lab disturbed by cleaning.
Ella's night at the ball cannot happen if she allows either of them to succeed; yet the story feels new, non-derivative, and deliciously complex. We delight in the echoes of the original fairy-tale, and enjoy the ways in which our Cinder Unit is not Cinderella seeking her prince
This is a genuinely new take on the tale, and leaves me to wait breathless, wondering what clone might be at the center of Duplicate Book 2.
When unit Cinder-03-Ella-11 is reassigned to a top-secret science building, her new job is to clean soot, cinders and ash from the two-room lab of Mr. Anthony. The only cinder-cleaner in the building, she loses her numbers to become simply Cinder-Ella. The sinister Mother, a prototype-model robot, seems determined to break her Cinder unit, and the human user of the lab is equally determined not to have his lab disturbed by cleaning.
Ella's night at the ball cannot happen if she allows either of them to succeed; yet the story feels new, non-derivative, and deliciously complex. We delight in the echoes of the original fairy-tale, and enjoy the ways in which our Cinder Unit is not Cinderella seeking her prince
This is a genuinely new take on the tale, and leaves me to wait breathless, wondering what clone might be at the center of Duplicate Book 2.
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