Re: (ReacTor) Five Books About Duplicating Human Beings

On 2025-05-08, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
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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/

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In _Perry Rhodan_, #200..299, the Very Big Bads also use a matter
duplicator ("Multiduplikator") to duplicate and edit people.  IIRC,
they even create an evil twin of Perry Rhodan himself.
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In Netflix's _Altered Carbon_, the resolution to the first season
hinges on an illegal clone.  I expect the plot is from Richard
Morgan's novel, but I don't know.
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In the universe of Greg Egan's _Diaspora_, one branch of humanity
are the polis citizens who live as purely digital uploads.  A short
story set in this universe is "The Planck Dive", where some polis
citizens fork themselves, with one copy diving voluntarily into a
black hole for exploration purposes, knowing full well that they
are unlikely to escape.
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