Cloned Lives (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Pamela Sargent
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—extrapolatory
- Time of Work: From the eve of the year 2000 to 2037
- Setting: The United States and the Moon
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Future, Twenty-first century, Incest, Moon or moons, Clones or cloning
- Locales: United States, Moon
The Plot
Astrophysicist Paul Swenson—who has demonstrated unusual brilliance in other fields, including poetry and music—is persuaded by his friend Hidey Takamura to allow himself to be cloned once a U.S. moratorium on this kind of experimental venture lapses with the coming of the new millennium. Takamura argues that one lifetime is insufficient to develop Swenson’s multifaceted abilities and that if transplant surgery is morally acceptable, then cloning also ought to be. Jon Aschenbach, a minister, urges Paul not to do it, on the grounds that genetic engineering is an...
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