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We Can Build You

1972

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About this book

A struggling business turns to manufacturing lifelike replicas of historical figures, including Abraham Lincoln. As commercial ambition collides with emotional instability, the distinction between artificial people and their human creators becomes increasingly uncertain.

Chronology

Work history

  1. no later than Oct 4, 1962

    Composition: no later than Oct 4, 1962

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. Oct 4, 1962

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    Oct 4, 1962

  3. 1972

    First published 1972

    We Can Build You · Daw

  4. Serialized as A. Lincoln, Simulacrum

    Magazine serial version of the manuscript later published in book form as We Can Build You; serialization included editorial intervention.

    A. Lincoln, Simulacrum

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  • Serialized asA. Lincoln, SimulacrumA. Lincoln, Simulacrum is the magazine serial version of the manuscript later published as We Can Build You.