Re: (ReacTor) Five Books About Duplicating Human Beings

On 5/8/25 10:20 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Five Books About Duplicating Human Beings
 For some reason, cloning or copying people never goes according to plan...
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I've read two recently that fit here:
Reynolds - On The Steel Breeze
Mickey7 - Ashton
The Ashton is somewhat parallel to your description of Goldin's book (which I have not read), in the sense that Mickey is an Expendable, meaning he is sent on very dangerous jobs, knowing he can be re-iterated from shared memory/files and a backup body. The alienation is baked in at the start for Mickey, as the majority of the crew don't know how to interact with him - so they largely don't.
Some others I didn't see in the comments:
Banks - The Culture (esp as back-ups)
Zelazny - Lord of Light (reincarnation machines, body back-ups)
Taylor - We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
Lee & Miller - Liaden Universe (Uncle, Dulsey, etc)
Tony