Posted by willem on April 12, 1998 at 12:18:24:
In Reply to: Re: To Live Forever -- Cloning and the Hero posted by The Professor on April 10, 1998 at 22:03:04:
: I very much appreciated the comments by Mark Adams--he is absolutely right. I suspect most people, like me, are basing their discussion of this book on 5-15 yr old memories ofthe book. The clones were purely for backup purposes, ONLY in case of accidents.
: However, was no one shocked & troubled by the cold blooded murder that Waylock commits early in the book (I have not had a chance to reread the book unfortunately)? Or about his inability to understand the anger of his victims clone?
Professor: Later in the book he is troubled as being a monster, but his rage is coming from the occasion that they had no mercy on him.He is thinking about their possible resurrection. He is the person causing the accident but as the Amaranth have a clone available the person murdered does not die in the sense we consider somebody dead when murdered.
Waylock uses the back ups as rationalization of the murders he commits.
To live forever is one of his best books [imo], amazingly up to date and worth a reread.