Joshua Bell schreef:
> Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Reminds me of a short story. A well known female artist is assasinated. Her
> >memories had been stored and this backup is uploaded into a new body after
> >her
> >death. Then she gets assasinated again. So again her backup is downloaded
> >into
> >a new body. She experiences some discontinuity because her backup always
> >lacks
> >the last episode of her previous life. Finally she gets to meet the very
> >persistent assasin. Turns out its a male. Somebody had stolen her backup by
> >mistake and downloaded it into a male body. The copy felt so strong about
> >being
> >not unique that he had to try and assasinate her time and again so he'd be
> >the
> >only original.
>
> That's not quite the plot or the ending...
>
> SPOILERS
>
> The copy wasn't just a male body - it was a genetic clone that was tweaked
> to be male (gender-switching is trivial in this setting, so that's actually
> a minor point; the story would work just as well without it). The kidnappers
> ditched it as soon as they realized they'd stolen/cloned/downloaded the
> wrong person. As an illegal clone it had no rights and thus was subject to
> immediate execution if caught. However, since it had the original's genetic
> signature it could subsist - barely - by tapping the original's bank
> account.
>
> The clone murdering the "original" was more of a desparation measure than
> trying to be unique. If the clone was caught it would be killed, but it
> really had no hope of replacing the original. Based on the laws in place at
> the time, the clone had no chance for survival... thus leading to the
> ultimate ending of the story.
Nope. Some crooks cloned the body of a wealthy person in order to get to this
persons accounts. But there was a mistake. They stole the wrong personallity to
go with that body. As soon as they found out that the personality and the clone
were a mismatch they ditched the clone. The end is a bit soft. She gets to make
love with her own personality in that male body or something like that. Just
thought I would keep out the spoilers.
