Love in the time of cloning:  science fictions of transgressive kinship.

Wasson, Sara-Patricia

Abstract

This article presents a discussion on science fiction related to cloning. Science fiction has long played with the notion of the doubled self, and the speculative potential of the double was extended when the term "human cloning" entered cultural parlance in the late 1960s. Bolstered by Gordon Rattray Taylor's popular non-fiction book "The Biological Time-Bomb," numerous narratives contemplated the potential risks, advantages, exploitations, perversities, and satisfactions of having or being a clone.

Citation

Wasson, S. (2004). Love in the time of cloning:  science fictions of transgressive kinship. Extrapolation, 45, 130-144

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jun 22, 2004
• Deposit Date: Mar 28, 2008
• Print ISSN: 0014-5483
• Electronic ISSN: 2047-7708
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 45
• Pages: 130-144
• Keywords: human cloning; doubled self; kinship
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2281