Ever Cloned a Character?

[Stuart Dren]

If so, how did it turn out? Was the original still alive, or was it a bring-definitely-dead-hero-back-in-part-4 situation? Was there existential dread, or situational comedy, or both?

Or perhaps you're writing a military sci fi with clone armies in it. Bonus if the clone army is controlled by a cannibalistic ESPer.

My current story doesn't have strictly a clone, but it has something very close to it, a processed cheese kind of situation.

Or maybe you think clones are silly, or too specific or predictable as a story element in most use cases? Share your thoughts please.

 

[Naomasa298]

No, but if I did, I would probably take it down the identity angle, as in, is the clone its own person, or the original, or a copy?

Frank Herbert does them in the Duncan Idaho gholas, although they all largely regard themselves as continuations of the original, up to the moment of their original deaths, except the last one, who has the memories of all the Duncans.

 

[DLC]

In sci-fi, uploading your consciousness into a new body is pretty common (Altered Carbon etc.)

 

[Madman Starryteller]

In sci-fi, uploading your consciousness into a new body is pretty common (Altered Carbon etc.)

And the eternal question is, would it really be the same person and consciousness? The same soul?

Clones are interesting, we can probably make them with todays tech, at least I think they cloned a sheep that I read about some years ago. Cloning humans face whole different ethical questions, however.

 

[Banespawn]

I've written 3 short stories for competitions on the .com site that include clones. They have very different personalities, but they are all "from birth" clones, meaning they were created from one set of DNA as babies and grew up not knowing that they were clones.