LINDSAY@TL-20B.ARPA (10/03/85)
From: LINDSAY@TL-20B.ARPA The discussion about copying human beings is all very interesting, but the subject has been well handled in some very good books. A sampler: The World Of Null A (A.E. Van Vogt, 1948) ... wherein the hero keeps dying, and then waking up in a new body... Fabulous pseudoscience. Classic cliffhanger. People Minus X (Raymond Z. Gallun, 1957) ... wherein the victims of a disaster are recreated - but from the memories of the embittered survivors ... A more modern work, by which I mean that the moral and social aspects shared the plot with the exciting ideas (like miniaturized people!). And while I have the podium: I remember a short story about someone who learned enough magic to copy things. So, he made enough of himself to be a jazz band, and lived happily in the woods until one of him decided to be an army and kill all the capitalists. It was a fabulous story. I'd like to find it again: can anyone help ? Don Lindsay -------
scott@hou2g.UUCP (Colonel'K) (10/08/85)
How could a discussion about reincarnation and
duplication go very far without mentioning the
Riverworld series by Farmer?
"PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!"
Scott J. Berry
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