Re: Cloning ethics in science fiction - help?
- From: "Dan Goodman" <dsgood@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 12 Dec 2007 07:19:47 GMT
J.Pascal wrote:
My daughter has to do a report for school and has chosen cloning for
her subject. It's this dog-awful huge production with multi-media,
etc., Anyhow, I suggested she put up quotes from science fiction
about cloning showing a progression of how people have thought about
the issue over time instead of boring power-point graphs .
Off the top of my head I can think of two authors... Bujold, probably
the quote about cloning being the sin of vanity if I can find it back
(Mark talking to Ellie Quinn?)... and David Feintuch (dang, I google
and find out he's passed) because I seem to remember a quote about,
even though cloning is really really illegal that a child (the
clone) ought not be held accountable for the sins of his father.
Knowing which book to look in for that would be fabulous.
I know that a lot of books have clones as a central theme and that's
helpful. Passages to quote that directly address the ethics of
cloning humans would be perfect if I can find them.
I am helping her more with this than I am generally inclined to
do. We never did anything remotely like a researched presentation in
home school and her teacher this semester has been excessively
unhelpful (the project is year-long and actually spans both semesters
and involves multiple teachers... hopefully her spring humanities
teacher will be more inclined to offer direction... curse the ADD
paradox: the high levels of creativity associated with it do not
function well when left to be free-form creative.)
Suggestions of other resources or where to look for them will be
greatly appreciated as well.
Thanks for any help offered. I appreciate it.
You can probably get more answers in rec.arts.sf.written. But as a
start: John Varley's Eight Worlds series. David Brin, _Kiln People_.
Jack Vance's _To Live Forever_ is probably difficult to find.
Okay -- Googling on "clones" and "science fiction" brings up as the
first result:
CLONE page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
The first major science fiction novel about clones and the cloning of
human beings was A. E. Van Vogt's 1945 novel The World of Null-A. 16
other fictions on ...
www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/clone.html - 29k - Cached - Similar pages
With info from another result, I get this from the Internet Speculative
Fiction Data Base (http://isfdb.org):
* Legal Name: Kent, Steven L.
* Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_L._Kent
* Webpage: http://www.sadsamspalace.com/index.html
Novels
* The Clone Republic (2006)
* Rogue Clone (2006)
* The Clone Alliance (2007)
Searching isfdb on title for "clone" in the title brings up a bunch.
Some are reviews or cover art.
Aldous Huxley, _Brave New World_. Ira Levin, _The Boys From Brazil_.
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