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From: lmc@cisden.UUCP (Lyle McElhaney)
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Subject: Re: Clarke's _Imperial_Earth_: A question
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Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 23:48:13 EST
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> 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?
> 
He had Karl cloned.  At the beginning of Chapter 42 the doctor comments
that he was glad that Duncan had finally made his decision. "The --ah--
delay has caused certain problems..." certainly refers to the length of
time following Karl's death. Part of taking the "wider view" that is
mentioned is the determination that strict heredity lineage wasn't helping
Titan solve its problems, that some change was required...