For the furthest of futures, go to fiction: Gregory Benford’s “farseers”
stretch their gaze across millions of years in Far Futures (Tor, S15.95, ISBN
0312863799). And in Clones edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (Ace,
$5.99, ISBN 0441005225), nine stories by writers Ursula Le Guin, Kate
Wilhelm, Charles Sheffield and others, show that the perils and pleasures of
cloning were being explored long before Dolly’s advent.
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