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Subject: reincarnation
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Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 02:29:50 EDT
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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
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