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Subject: Concerning personal duplication
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 12:53:13 EDT
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From: "pugh jon%b.mfenet"@LLL-MFE.ARPA


I just read a story in the latest Best of Omni #n called Number 13.
It relates to the matter transmission/ duplication disscussion that 
has been occuring.  The story concerns a colony ship that is looking
for a habitable planet.  Of course, someone must be woken up to decide
if it is worth landing on.  The guy who is woken up has been grown
from a template of the original and if he decides to abort the landing,
he has to grow old and die waiting for the next planet while they grow a
new version of him.  Needless to say he gains some insight into himself
from the log because he is Number 13.

It's a good story and presents another view of this whole original versus
duplicate thought patterns idea we have been bouncing around.  I recommend
it.  The book also contains other good stories from the pages of Omni,
including Rutvarra's Case (sp) by Philip K Dick and Amanda and the Alien
by Robert Silverburg and A Teardrop Falls by Larry Niven and a mess of
other stories.  Joe Bob says check it out.

Jon