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Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.85 — 925,859 ratings — published 2005
The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.08 — 98,406 ratings — published 2002
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,107,473 ratings — published 1990
The Lost World (Jurassic Park, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.89 — 193,012 ratings — published 1995
Double Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.01 — 17,190 ratings — published 2005
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.85 — 11,533 ratings — published 1976
Six Wakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.83 — 21,374 ratings — published 2017
Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.78 — 65,809 ratings — published 2022
The Compound (The Compound, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.87 — 24,906 ratings — published 2008
Constance (Constance, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.01 — 20,769 ratings — published 2021
The Echo Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,033 ratings — published 2021
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,169,327 ratings — published 1932
The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.69 — 53,487 ratings — published 2008
Mirror Dance (Vorkosigan Saga, #8)
by (shelved 7 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.32 — 23,787 ratings — published 1994
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.24 — 34,937 ratings — published 2008
Masterminds (Masterminds, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,922 ratings — published 2015
The Lord of Opium (Matteo Alacran, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.86 — 9,415 ratings — published 2013
The Boys from Brazil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.05 — 41,843 ratings — published 1976
The Clone Codes (The Clone Codes, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,756 ratings — published 2010
God Emperor of Dune (Dune, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.88 — 160,507 ratings — published 1981
The List (The Konrath Dark Thriller Collective #1)
by (shelved 4 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,970 ratings — published 2009
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.22 — 52,213 ratings — published 2015
Project Cain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.28 — 1,300 ratings — published 2013
Great North Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,409 ratings — published 2012
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.01 — 277,026 ratings — published 2004
The Lost Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,279 ratings — published 2012
Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.90 — 454,435 ratings — published 1969
The Fifth Head of Cerberus (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,116 ratings — published 1972
Point Blank (Alex Rider #2)
by (shelved 4 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.11 — 65,469 ratings — published 2001
Amy, Number Seven (Replica, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,045 ratings — published 1998
Cyteen (Cyteen, #1-3)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,845 ratings — published 1988
Project Nought (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,568 ratings — published 2022
Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.96 — 17,852 ratings — published 2023
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.23 — 149,771 ratings — published 2016
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.37 — 94,732 ratings — published 2016
Origin in Death (In Death, #21)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.39 — 32,755 ratings — published 2005
Falls the Shadow (Falls the Shadow #1)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.39 — 1,126 ratings — published 2014
Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.84 — 110,611 ratings — published 1984
Year Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,978 ratings — published 2002
Blueprint: Blaupause (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 2.69 — 1,735 ratings — published 1999
Clones (Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear, #11)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.38 — 273 ratings — published 1998
The True Meaning of Smekday (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,225 ratings — published 2007
Mystery Mother (Replica, #8)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.52 — 639 ratings — published 1999
The Fever (Replica, #9)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.55 — 686 ratings — published 1999
Perfect Girls (Replica, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.63 — 894 ratings — published 1999
Dead and Alive (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 4.03 — 26,727 ratings — published 2009
Mary Modern (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.45 — 779 ratings — published 2007
Kiln People (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cloning)
avg rating 3.85 — 6,182 ratings — published 2002
“Paul closed his eyes and turned his face to the sun. In spite of everything, it was hard not to take solace from the warmth flooding onto his skin. He stretched the muscles in his arms, his shoulders, his back -- and it felt like he was reaching out from the "self" in his virtual skull to all his mathematical flesh, imprinting the nebulous data with meaning; binding it all together, staking some kind of claim. He felt the stirrings of an erection. Existence was beginning to seduce him. He let himself surrender for a moment to a visceral sense of identity which drowned out all his pale mental images of optical processors, all his abstract reflections on the software's approximations and short-cuts. This body didn't want to evaporate. This body didn't want to bale out. It didn't much care that there was another -- "more real" -- version of itself elsewhere. It wanted to retain its wholeness. It wanted to endure.”
― Permutation City
― Permutation City
“What, if not a death drive, would impel sexual beings towards a pre sexual form of reproduction (in the depths of our imagination, moreover, is it not precisely this scissiparous form of reproduction and proliferation based solely on contiguity that for us is death and the death drive?). And what, if not a death drive, would further impel us at the same time, on the metaphysical plane, to deny all otherness, to shun any alteration in the Same, and to seek nothing beyond the perpetuation of an identity, nothing but the transparency of a genetic inscription no longer subject even to the vicissitudes of procreation?
But enough of the death drive. Are we faced here with a phantasy of selfgenesis? No, because such phantasies always involve the figures of the mother and the father - sexed parental figures whom the subject may indeed yearn to eliminate, the better to usurp their positions, but this in no sense implies contesting the symbolic structure of procreation: if you become your own child, you are still the child of someone. Cloning, on the other hand, radically eliminates not only the mother but also the father, for it eliminates the interaction between his genes and the mother's, the imbrication of the parents' differences, and above all the joint act of procreation.
The cloner does not beget himself: he sprouts from each of his genes' segments. One may well speculate about the value of such plant-like shoots, which in effect resolve all Oedipal sexuality in favour of a 'non-human' sex, a sex based on contiguity and unmediated propagation. But at all events the phantasy of self-genesis is definitively out of the picture. Father and mother are gone, but their disappearance, far from widening an aleatory freedom for the subject, instead leaves the way clear for a matrix known as a code. No more mother, no more father: just a matrix. And it is this matrix, this genetic code, which is destined to 'give birth', from now till eternity, in an operational mode from which all chance sexual elements have been expunged.”
― The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
But enough of the death drive. Are we faced here with a phantasy of selfgenesis? No, because such phantasies always involve the figures of the mother and the father - sexed parental figures whom the subject may indeed yearn to eliminate, the better to usurp their positions, but this in no sense implies contesting the symbolic structure of procreation: if you become your own child, you are still the child of someone. Cloning, on the other hand, radically eliminates not only the mother but also the father, for it eliminates the interaction between his genes and the mother's, the imbrication of the parents' differences, and above all the joint act of procreation.
The cloner does not beget himself: he sprouts from each of his genes' segments. One may well speculate about the value of such plant-like shoots, which in effect resolve all Oedipal sexuality in favour of a 'non-human' sex, a sex based on contiguity and unmediated propagation. But at all events the phantasy of self-genesis is definitively out of the picture. Father and mother are gone, but their disappearance, far from widening an aleatory freedom for the subject, instead leaves the way clear for a matrix known as a code. No more mother, no more father: just a matrix. And it is this matrix, this genetic code, which is destined to 'give birth', from now till eternity, in an operational mode from which all chance sexual elements have been expunged.”
― The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
