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In Madrid in 2109, Bruna Husky, a combat replicant ('techno') turned private investigator, looks into a wave of replicants who suddenly turn violent, attack people and then kill themselves. She traces the deaths to tampered memory implants that trigger the psychotic breaks, and finds that the killings serve a political campaign to stoke human hatred of replicants.
Bruna counts the exact years, months and days she has left. A known, near expiration date is not just a fact in her life but its organizing structure: it breeds rage, urgency and a refusal to invest in long-term attachments.
Replicants receive manufactured childhood memories written by professional 'memorists.' They still feel these memories as their own, and the memories shape their personalities as fully as lived experience would. Human memory is also reconstructed, so the line between authentic and implanted memory is thinner than it seems.
Hatred of a minority can be deliberately manufactured. An actor provokes or fakes violence, attributes it to the group, and lets public fear justify discrimination. When a feared group commits a sudden run of 'senseless' crimes, ask who benefits from the resulting backlash. Also ask whether the members' behavior has been engineered from outside.