The Clone Master story
A scientist clones himself a dozen or so times over.
9 total · 7 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| a person and their clone | major | Simon's clone had no intentions of taking a back seat to the original. |
| greed for riches | major | Simon's clandestine financier was motivated to get Simon to forbidden create human cloning technology to be sold to the highest bidder. |
| human cloning | major | Dr. Simon Shane worked together with Dr. Ezra Louthin on a secret project to create a clone of himself. |
| personal identity | major | We a made to ponder whether Simon's various clones were any less Simon that Simon himself. |
| secret government project | major | Dr. Simon Shane consented to work on a secret government project to clone a human being. In the end, however, it became apparent that the people who had approached him were not int he government at all. |
| telepathic ability | major | Simon was telepathically linked to each of his clones, but the clones were not telepathically linked to each other. |
| what if I met my double | major | Simon's clone had all the same memories and abilities as Simon and they looked identical. All of this made for an uncanny experience for the both of them. |
| bureaucracy | minor | Simon and Ezra's research into human cloning was obstructed at by a stubborn government regulator at every step. Simon went to Washington D.C. to complain but he just ended up getting redirected from one government department to another without ever achieving a resolution to the issue. |
| government regulation in society | minor | Government regulator Harry Tiezer pestered Simon and Ezra with burdensome requests for progress reports and threatened to cutoff their research funding unless they did more to justify their research in writing. |