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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Books About Duplicating Human Beings
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 08:35:08 -0400
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On 5/8/25 10:20 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> Five Books About Duplicating Human Beings
> 
> For some reason, cloning or copying people never goes according to plan...
> 
> https://reactormag.com/five-books-about-duplicating-human-beings/
> 

I've read two recently that fit here:
Reynolds - On The Steel Breeze
Mickey7 - Ashton

The Ashton is somewhat parallel to your description of Goldin's book 
(which I have not read), in the sense that Mickey is an Expendable, 
meaning he is sent on very dangerous jobs, knowing he can be re-iterated 
from shared memory/files and a backup body. The alienation is baked in 
at the start for Mickey, as the majority of the crew don't know how to 
interact with him - so they largely don't.

Some others I didn't see in the comments:
Banks - The Culture (esp as back-ups)
Zelazny - Lord of Light (reincarnation machines, body back-ups)
Taylor - We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
Lee & Miller - Liaden Universe (Uncle, Dulsey, etc)

Tony