title: The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles (Zone Books)
author:  Hillel Schwartz 
description: <P>The authorbrings his considerable synthetic powers to bear on our uneasy preoccupation with doubles, likenesses, facsimiles, replicas and re-enactments. I doubt that these cultural phenomena have ever been more comprehensively or more creatively chronicled. A book that gets you to see the world anew, again.</P><I>New York Times</I><br /><br /><P>A sprightly and disconcerting piece of cultural history.</P><I>London Review of Books</I><br /><br /><P>In<I>The Culture of the Copy</I>, [Schwartz] has written the perfect book: original and repetitive at once.</P><I>Los Angeles Times</I>
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  Uglies
  
  COMING SOON FROM SIMON PULSE:
  
  Pretties
  
  Specials
  
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   _This novel was shaped by a series of e-mail exchanges_  
  _between myself and Ted Chiang about his story_  
  _“Liking What You See: A Documentary.” His input on_  
  _the manuscript was also invaluable._
  
    
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real
  people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters,
  places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any
  resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is
  entirely coincidental.
  
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