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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 09:02:45 -0400
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On 5/8/25 4:28 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 5/8/2025 9:20 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/
> 
> Just the "Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (2013)".
> 
> There is cloning all over SF.  Miles Vorkosigan is cloned with a brother 
> along with many others in the Vorkosigan books on the Jackson's Whole 
> planet.  Miles and his family even treat his clone brother as a full 
> fledged family member.
> 
> In the Final Architecture books ("Shards Of Earth"), there is a entire 
> group of female cloned warriors, the Parthenon, who are feared and hated 
> across the galaxy.
> 
> Lynn
> 

That reminds me that my son was of a perfect age to very much enjoy the 
Star Wars Clone Wars animated series.

Tony