Help With Cloning

[Stuart Jaffe]

Hey all!

I'm doing some prep work for our next episode of The Eclectic Review podcast and hoped you all might be able to help. We're doing a 2-parter on Cloning, and I'm trying to come up with some of the best examples in SF books on the subject. Kiln People by David Brin came to mind. Any help is appreciated, especially in the less well known authors.


Thanks in advance!

 

[BookStop]

Jurassic Park is an obvious sf clone story

 

[Stuart Jaffe]

Yeah, Jurassic Park is a clone story, and it's one of the good Crichton novels. Most of his work leaves me empty. And, actually, Jurassic Park also leaves me empty. It just happens to be fun.

 

[Carolyn Hill]

Lois McMaster Bujold. Mirror Dance.
A.E. Van Vogt. The World of Null-A.
Kate Wilhelm. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang.
C. J. Cherryh. Cyteen.

 

[Jason_Taverner]

Short story The Reflections of Ghosts by Jeffrey Thomas in his Punktown collection. Its more the emotional side than science

 

[steve12553]

I'm thinking Heinlein's "Number of the Beast" has a cloning aspect. Not your ordinary look at it.

 

[Milk]

The Golden Globe by John Varley
Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley.


In the science fiction books Ive read where the subject of cloning has come up there are two categories of cloned people.

1. Play with dna and make a clone.

2. Teleportation. This means a person is faxed from point a to point b . Like in the movie the Fly or say Star Trek. Except the clone part happens when the original copy forgot to destroy itself or say the machine breaksdown mid fax, or what-have-you. Then you have two or more clones walking around.


Ive also seen cloning via magic in a Clive barker book Imajica.

 

[Dave]

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

I would spoil the book to tell you any more about it.

The Boys From Brazil by Ira Levin.

 

[ras'matroi]

There is a short story collection by Robert Reed, titeld
'The Dragons of Springplace'. There were at least two
storys which dealt with this topic.
There were some other books by him, too. But I can't
remember the titles. Maybe someone else does.

 

[Dave]

I have some more for you:

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler.
The China Clones by Robert Woliver.
Spares by Michael Marshall Smith.
Counting Heads By David Marusek.
The Clone Conspiracy by Simon Rose.
Steel Helix by Ann Tonsor Zeddies.

I haven't read any of these, though I have been meaning to read 'Future Shock' but never got around to it.

 

[Finnien]

I'd definitely recommend Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang and The World of Null-A. I've read Mirror Dance and Number of the Beast, but to be honest, neither one stuck in my memory that well. It's too late on a Friday night to dredge through my own memory. I'll see if I can come up with anything tomorrow.

 

[Winters_Sorrow]

You've already mentioned David Brin but I think Glory Season was a more interesting take on cloning.
For more famous work there's HG Wells The Island of Dr Moreau
Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh is also interesting

 

[Princess Ivy]

i'd also recomend the comic book series: The wanderers, published 1998. beautifuly drawn and sensitively written.

 

[dsarachel]

Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception has a little bit.

 

[SERAFINApekkala]

Good picture of Rimmer man! like it!, like it alot!