RE: Sincere questions of identity + ethical questions regarding "copies"

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 02:30:09 MST


At 03:41 PM 12/17/01 +1100, Neil Blanch wrote:

>There is an annual collection of short SF edited by Gardner Dazois - (I
>think it's called "The Mammoth Book of the Year's Best SF"

Ahem, THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, No. n. No mammoths, not even in the
Stephen Baxter stories.

>last year's collection (2000) had a fantastic
>story in it (not sure of the title or author but I'm pretty sure it's the
>first one) that deal's very nicely with the whole idea of copies & the
>ethics involved, using the idea of copies being kept for purely sentimental
>reasons, literally performing the same function as wedding photos.

David Marusek: "The Wedding Album", Asimov's, Jun '99 (a 1999 Nebula Award
nominee).

Damien Broderick



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