Re: (ReacTor) Five Books About Duplicating Human Beings

On Sun, 18 May 2025 00:04:59 -0000 (UTC), "Default User"
<defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:

James Nicoll wrote:
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Five Books About Duplicating Human Beings
 
For some reason, cloning or copying people never goes according to
plan...

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A while back I read My Murder by Katie Williams. I like SF and
mysteries, so I'm a sucker for crossovers like this.
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In this setting, scientists have created the process of duplicating a
recently-deceased person, minus the very recent memories (important).
The world's reaction this is along lines of, "Do we really need this?
We have a lot of people."
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After a scandal involving a politician (whaaaat?!) the program is
struggling to stay afloat. So they decide to resurrect the victims of a
serial killer. One of these begins to suspect that there is more to her
death authorities and her husband are telling her.
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One of the problems with an author that doesn't usually write SF is
that technology can be kind of out of sync. This is set in a world not
too far in advance of ours in many  ways. Self-driving cars have
improved to the point where many people never learn to drive, as they
just call a robo-uber, but some still have regular cars. Vitural
reality has advanced to where immersive games a popular, but VR is also
used for therapy and such. Plausibly 20 years from now.
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Then there is the resurrection. They are able to copy the memories and
person-state of a deceased person, clone said person, force-grow the
clone to adult in days, and load the recorded memories into that brain.
I mean, whoah. That's some pretty advanced medical/biological science
there.

The film /Source Code/ has certain similarities to this form of
resurrection.
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"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"