Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Thompson Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Books About Duplicating Human Beings Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 21:51:54 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: <100okbs$3oo3s$1@dont-email.me> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 03:51:57 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="68242b15154b292d286e594ae6988470"; logging-data="3956860"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18/p6jmnBXKBk4BbjmxUmgXJNf+TPPZdBk=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 Cancel-Lock: sha1:l+E5DfJkI4SiSH2xbA4m52J32GY= In-Reply-To: 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 > Jackson's Whole: there's a whole clan of physicians cloned from a single progenitor- the Durona clan, if I recall correctly. They were instrumental in helping Mark escape from the Whole, and had small roles in later books (Ivan's fiance was supposed to connect with them when she went on the run). Chris