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RAINBOW CADENZA
libfemme ( 11/27/2003, 08:44:51 )J. Neil Schulman wrote a science fiction novel called the RAINBOW CADENZA in 1983 about “about a world where men outnumber females and the minority class finds itself being hunted for sport.”One of the main characters is a woman who has 2 natural children with her husband and then makes a clone from her own cells for her 3rd child. Neil did a very good job of probing her feelings, relationships with and expectation for each of her children, particularly how they differed between the sexually conceived and cloned child.The woman had had dreams in her youth of becoming an artist, but a set of outside circumstances had prevented her from reaching her goal. Now with her clone she be more understanding their her own parents had been with her, arrange for roadblocks to moved aside for her cloned daughter, and in general give the clone the advantages she never had.When the daughter reaches the exact age that the mother had been when she had been blocked from her goal a strange thing happens. For no apparent outside reason, the cloned daughter gives up on her goal of becoming an artist. This forces the mother to reexamine her past. Since changing the environment had not changed the outcome the mother is forced to realize she could no longer blame others for her failure to become an artist. The failure had sprung from something inside of her and nowhere else.Also since the daughter had quit at the same moment in her life that the mother had quit in hers the mother realizes that failure had always been inevitable. She simply didn’t have within her whatever it takes to be the artist she dreamed of. She, and the reader, face the scary thought that her destiny is far less under her own control, and far more bound by genetics, then she dares to believe. The unsettling idea that we have far less free will then we need to believe. One realizes it take a lot of courage to face the truth that not all things can be solved by sheer amounts of will power.This is by no means a depressing book. One of the rewards of facing an unhappy truth is frees one to see new possibilities. If one stops expending effort on a means that does not work, one can be open to seeing the avenue that does. In any case it’s out of print now, but it was one science fiction story I remember that dealt with consequences of cloning in a far more realistic way than other science fiction. The dangers were not to the clone’s psyche but to the original parents. It was an interesting book.
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