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Fiction about forking and otherwise copying people?

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Sat, 2011-04-02 08:56
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DataPacRat DataPacRat's picture
Fiction about forking and otherwise copying people?
In whatever media (books, comics, manga/anime, TV, movies, video games, RPGs, etc), what stories can you think of that deal significantly with people deliberately making copies of themselves, whether in the form of mind backups, transporter-clones, quantum multiverse selves meeting, time-travel tricks, or what-have-you?
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Sat, 2011-04-02 10:05
nezumi.hebereke nezumi.hebereke's picture
Re: Fiction about forking and otherwise copying people?
Moon Seventh Day(?) with Arnold Shwarzneggar (sp?) Of course, evil twin fiction is all over the place. Thinking about that, I want to make a 'mirror ego bridge'. Egos copied with it grow goatees, a distaste for closed shirts, and a penchant for EEEvil.
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Sat, 2011-04-02 11:22
Lilith Lilith's picture
Re: Fiction about forking and otherwise copying people?
nezumi.hebereke wrote:
Moon Seventh Day(?) with Arnold Shwarzneggar (sp?) Of course, evil twin fiction is all over the place. Thinking about that, I want to make a 'mirror ego bridge'. Egos copied with it grow goatees, a distaste for closed shirts, and a penchant for EEEvil.
You could call it the "Gary Oldman Bridge"! (and it's Schwarzenegger) ;)
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Sat, 2011-04-02 12:37
Extrasolar Angel Extrasolar Angel's picture
Re: Fiction about forking and otherwise copying people?
By David Brin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiln_People
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The novel takes place in a future in which people can create clay duplicates (called "dittos" or golems) of themselves. A ditto retains all of the archetype's memories up until the time of duplication. The duplicate lasts only about a day, and the original person (referred to in the book as an archie, from "archetype", or "rig", from "original") can then choose whether or not to upload the ditto's memory
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Sat, 2011-04-02 14:50
Demonseed Elite Demonseed Elite's picture
Re: Fiction about forking and otherwise copying people?
Charlie Stross' novel [i][url=http://www.amazon.com/Accelerando-Singularity-Charles-Stross/dp/04410141... had forking all over the place in it. The last novel in Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs trilogy, [i][url=http://www.amazon.com/Woken-Furies-Takeshi-Kovacs-Novel/dp/0345499778/re... Furies[/url][/i], deals with the main protagonist having to go up against a sleeved fork of himself who works for his opposition.
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Sat, 2011-04-02 17:38
Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
Re: Fiction about forking and otherwise copying people?
Some of my favorites: SF novels and short stories: Greg Egan: Permutation City, Diaspora (and plenty of short stories) Vernor Vinge: The Cookie Monster, True Names David Brin: Stones of Significance Charles Stross: Saturn's Children Iain M. Banks: Excession Manga Masamune Shirow: Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface TV Dollhouse Film Tron: Legacy Comic Calvin and Hobbes, the duplicator arc See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_quantum_immortality_in_...
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Sat, 2011-04-02 22:37
Lilith Lilith's picture
Re: Fiction about forking and otherwise copying people?
Arenamontanus wrote:
Calvin and Hobbes, the duplicator arc
Definitely one of my favorites. :)
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Sat, 2011-04-16 02:22
InsidiousAlgorythm InsidiousAlgorythm's picture
Re: Fiction about forking and otherwise copying people?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_Wake:_A_Space_Opera MacLeod, Ken
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Sat, 2011-05-28 06:54
det det's picture
Re: Fiction about forking and otherwise copying people?
the takeshi kovacs cycle by richard morgan is all about forking, resleeving and farcasting as far as I remember. Nice books too.
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Sun, 2011-05-29 00:47
The Demon Code The Demon Code's picture
Re: Fiction about forking and otherwise copying people?
Akumetsu (a manga) has forking and merging.
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Sun, 2011-05-29 08:07
Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
Re: Fiction about forking and otherwise copying people?
Tony Ballantyne's novel "Capacity" has plenty of forking, both of the nightmarish variety and the slightly disturbed variety. The later example shows just how useful it can be for an agent to have plenty of herselves to call on during a mission.
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