(Found) Memory lapse

[Pattyanne]

I'm looking for a book or short story that I read many years ago about a woman who is a clone that has been murdered multiple times. She is an artist that uses weather where her audience can experience storms. People in this world can put theirselves into an animal at a zoo and experience lida for a day as that animal. It turns out her murderer is a clone of herself in Male form. Sorry this came out like a book report.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

That rings so many bells. I'm reasonably sure the one I'm thinking of is a short story. It might be Orson Scott Card - but I'll muse further.

 

[chrispenycate]

I suspect it's 'The Phantom of Kansas' by John Varley. Featuring Fox, on the Moon.

 

[Lew Rockwell Fan]

I suspect it's 'The Phantom of Kansas' by John Varley. Featuring Fox, on the Moon.

I was thinking that the part about zoo animals reminded me of another Varley classic, "Overdrawn At the Memory Bank".

 

[Matteo]

I suspect it's 'The Phantom of Kansas' by John Varley. Featuring Fox, on the Moon.

I read the Persistence of Vision collection recently. It's almost certainly Phantom of Kansas.

 

[chrispenycate]

. While checking out my suspicion I visited the Varley site - Persistence of vision is no longer in my bookshelves, unfortunately - and found:- The Phantom of Kansas – Full Text – John Varley

 

[PaulMmn]

The story in question was published as a serial in ANALOG Magazine, sometime between 1967 and this year. Only difference is I remember the female protagonist as some sort of city/arcology designer, and she can't remember making at least one prize-winner because part of the cloning process is recording one's brain so it can be played back into the clone's brain. She hadn't had her brain recorded often enough, and the most recent copy played back into her cloned body didn't include designing the prize-winner.

 

[Pattyanne]

That rings so many bells. I'm reasonably sure the one I'm thinking of is a short story. It might be Orson Scott Card - but I'll muse further.

 

[Pattyanne]

I found it. The Phantom of Kansas by John Varley. Found it in a compilation of short stories by John Varley called The Persistance of Vision.