Re: (ReacTor) Five Books About Duplicating Human Beings

James Nicoll wrote:

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

A while back I read My Murder by Katie Williams. I like SF and
mysteries, so I'm a sucker for crossovers like this.

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."

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.

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.

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.


Brian