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* CloningBlues: A major theme of the novel is studying the ethical and social implications of widespread cloning.
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Dave Prime has been dead for years. The real victim is actually Dave-2 who took his place.]]
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* EvilTwin: Dave expects the clone murderer to be defective in some way. [[spoiler: In fact, he was driven to murder by being ripped off for years.]]
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* RichBitch: Dave-Prime's daughter. Subverted when you realize her anger is for understandable reasons. [[spoiler: He mother intends to replace her murdered father with one of the clones--and has done so before.]]
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* RichBitch: Dave-Prime's daughter. Subverted when you realize her anger is for understandable reasons. [[spoiler: He Her mother intends to replace her murdered father with one of the clones--and has done so before.]]
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* FreeLoveFuture: A DownplayedTrope example. A lot of the clones have very causal attitudes to sex given they can't have children by design. Quite a few of them have multiple partners simultaneously (usually other clones) since why not? Dave-42, ironically enough, finds this vaguely depressing.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Every clone seems to consider Dave Prime to be this since he got to live the life they always wanted with the woman they loved. [[spoiler: Subverted by TheReveal.]]
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* {{Greed}}: The motivation of virtually all Primes. They are the top in their field and can become fabulously wealthy by getting a tithe from all the clones made from them. It just requires them to sentence, essentially, themselves to debt slavery dozens if not hundreds of times over.
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* SpiritualLicensee: The book is as close to being a sequel to ''Film/{{Bladerunner}}'' as you're probably going to get from an independent author.
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[[caption-width-right:332: It's not every day you solve your own murder.]]
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''Literature/PrimeSuspectACloneDetectiveMystery'' is a science-fiction novel by Creator/JimBernheimer.
Upon waking up in a new city on a different planet, homicide detective David Bagini discovers that he is in fact the forty-second clone of David Bagini. He's been created to solve a murder ... specifically the murder of his prime. Standing in the way is the clues point directly at the other Bagini clones and they already know all his tricks.
How do you solve your own murder when you are the only suspect?
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* TheAce: Dave Bagini is this in all his incarnation. All of the clones are created from people considered the best in their field.
* AlienSky: What helps clue Dave-42 in to the fact he's on a new world.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Averted. The only people who believe this are regular humans and they're portrayed as kidding themselves.
* {{Antivillain}}: By the time we discover who killed the original Dave Bagini [[spoiler: who isn't even the original anyway]], the reader has long since come to the conclusion he had it coming.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The murder of Dave Bagini is solved but the system remains as corrupt as ever. Dave-42 decides to soldier on and try to achieve as much happiness as his situation allows, however.]]
* CityNoir: The space colony is full of FantasticRacism, disgusting smells, corruption, lies, and economic disparity.
* CloningBlues: A major theme of the novel is studying the ethical and social implications of widespread cloning.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: For Primes, you get a tithe from every one of your clones for the rest of your life and it's usually a large fortune. For clones? It's a full on CrapsackWorld.
* {{Cyberpunk}}: A pretty good example of the genre in the literal sense. Technology and society has fucked over the clones and made them little more than cogs in the machine.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The way the clones are treated is meant to invoke the ways minorities are treated.
* FantasticRacism: Clones are second-class citizens both legally and socially while ''Primes'' are treated as the elite.
* FantasticSlur: Crotchdropper for birthed humans.
* FlyingCar: As part of the homages to ''Bladerunner.''
* FilmNoir: The novel does its best to invoke this atmosphere in a science-fiction setting.
* TheFutureIsNoir: Very much so. It's like the 1940s in space only with ''even worse'' racism.
* GreyAndGreyMorality: Nobody is good in this book and even the murderers have good reasons for their actions.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: A major psychological factor to how the cloning caste system works. Every clone knows they're the sort of guy who, in the position of their Prime, would sell their own genetic replications into wage-slavery. Averted with Dave-42 who has memories of a time when the original was adamantly ''against'' cloning.
* PunchClockHero: Dave-42 does his job because he's a cop but has deep reservations about anything he's doing. Ultimately, averted by the ending.
* RichBitch: Dave-Prime's daughter. Subverted when you realize her anger is for understandable reasons. [[spoiler: He mother intends to replace her murdered father with one of the clones--and has done so before.]]
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Averted. The clones are treated as these but are, by and large, identical to their Primes.
* ShoutOut: Dave-42 is 42 as an homage to ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy.''
* SpiritualLicensee: The book is as close to being a sequel to ''Film/{{Bladerunner}}'' as you're probably going to get from an independent author.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Primes and regular humans have this sort of attitude to their clones, which is shown to be FantasticRacism.
* {{Zeerust}}: The future is a great deal like the 1940s save for all the advanced technology.
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Upon waking up in a new city on a different planet, homicide detective David Bagini discovers that he is in fact the forty-second clone of David Bagini. He's been created to solve a murder ... specifically the murder of his prime. Standing in the way is the clues point directly at the other Bagini clones and they already know all his tricks.
How do you solve your own murder when you are the only suspect?
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* TheAce: Dave Bagini is this in all his incarnation. All of the clones are created from people considered the best in their field.
* AlienSky: What helps clue Dave-42 in to the fact he's on a new world.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Averted. The only people who believe this are regular humans and they're portrayed as kidding themselves.
* {{Antivillain}}: By the time we discover who killed the original Dave Bagini [[spoiler: who isn't even the original anyway]], the reader has long since come to the conclusion he had it coming.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The murder of Dave Bagini is solved but the system remains as corrupt as ever. Dave-42 decides to soldier on and try to achieve as much happiness as his situation allows, however.]]
* CityNoir: The space colony is full of FantasticRacism, disgusting smells, corruption, lies, and economic disparity.
* CloningBlues: A major theme of the novel is studying the ethical and social implications of widespread cloning.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: For Primes, you get a tithe from every one of your clones for the rest of your life and it's usually a large fortune. For clones? It's a full on CrapsackWorld.
* {{Cyberpunk}}: A pretty good example of the genre in the literal sense. Technology and society has fucked over the clones and made them little more than cogs in the machine.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The way the clones are treated is meant to invoke the ways minorities are treated.
* FantasticRacism: Clones are second-class citizens both legally and socially while ''Primes'' are treated as the elite.
* FantasticSlur: Crotchdropper for birthed humans.
* FlyingCar: As part of the homages to ''Bladerunner.''
* FilmNoir: The novel does its best to invoke this atmosphere in a science-fiction setting.
* TheFutureIsNoir: Very much so. It's like the 1940s in space only with ''even worse'' racism.
* GreyAndGreyMorality: Nobody is good in this book and even the murderers have good reasons for their actions.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: A major psychological factor to how the cloning caste system works. Every clone knows they're the sort of guy who, in the position of their Prime, would sell their own genetic replications into wage-slavery. Averted with Dave-42 who has memories of a time when the original was adamantly ''against'' cloning.
* PunchClockHero: Dave-42 does his job because he's a cop but has deep reservations about anything he's doing. Ultimately, averted by the ending.
* RichBitch: Dave-Prime's daughter. Subverted when you realize her anger is for understandable reasons. [[spoiler: He mother intends to replace her murdered father with one of the clones--and has done so before.]]
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Averted. The clones are treated as these but are, by and large, identical to their Primes.
* ShoutOut: Dave-42 is 42 as an homage to ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy.''
* SpiritualLicensee: The book is as close to being a sequel to ''Film/{{Bladerunner}}'' as you're probably going to get from an independent author.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Primes and regular humans have this sort of attitude to their clones, which is shown to be FantasticRacism.
* {{Zeerust}}: The future is a great deal like the 1940s save for all the advanced technology.
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