Cinder Unit

Duplicate #1

by H.A. Kinani

Being a clone is hard enough. Being in the Cinder Unit is worse.

Forced to do manual labor in one of the toughest areas that Ella's can be assigned, Cinder-Ella's transfer to The Center For Scientific Discovery to clean the eccentric Mr. Anthony's lab, seems like a welcome break.

That is, of course, until she realizes that her new Mother Android doesn't seem all that interested in caring for her and the temptation of Mr. Anthony's experiment becomes too hard to resist.

236 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 12, 2016

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Reviews

[Pat Cummings · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.