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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ahasuerus Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Books About Duplicating Human Beings Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 13:16:00 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 08 May 2025 19:16:02 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="23f31cd14fa8628421cb20caad5192d2"; logging-data="2051957"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/AjqAQUs8pXStPEV9UjvIzELpriT64Tlg=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:K+9S67MaoWWQe0j6NCE5SfbWd0E= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US On 5/8/2025 10:38 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote: > jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) writes: >> >> 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 have a copy of > > Blish, James and Lowndes, Robert _The Duplicated Man_ (1953) > > Which I picked up from a rack in, IIRC, a K-mart back in > the 70s. Don't remember much other than I didn't like it > at the time. Don D'Ammassa's 2017 mini-review (http://www.dondammassa.com/R1B2017.htm#Duplicated_Man_) starts with: > This is a mess from beginning to end. and ends with: > Awful. Unreadable. "Unreadable" may be a slight exaggeration since I managed to finish it, but I remember wondering why I bothered. As an aside, whenever I read a poorly written collaboration by otherwise capable authors, I wonder if there may be a story behind it, perhaps something like the story behind Simak/Campbell's _Empire_ -- https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2873162