Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!lsuc!pesnta!pyramid!decwrl!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!ucla-cs!acm From: acm@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Clarke's _Imperial_Earth_: A question Message-ID: <8838@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 16:29:00 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.8838 Posted: Sun Feb 9 16:29:00 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Feb-86 01:10:05 EST Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 7 I was re-reading Arthur C. Clarke's _Imperial_Earth_ and I have a question about the ending. After Duncan returns back to Titan, the child-clone is fair-skinned and blonde. Does this mean that he had Karl cloned or, somehow, when they "fixed" his genetic defects, this made the child caucasian and blonde? Comments? David Lee