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If You Like...Orphan BlackStories of Clones, Identity, and Dopplegängers.
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Mary Modern: a Novel
by Camille DeAngelis
Frustrated by her unsuccessful attempts to become pregnant, genetic researcher Lucy Morrigan--living with her boyfriend in her family's crumbling old family mansion--successfully clones her grandmother from a blood stain on an old apron, but instead of a baby, she brings to life a twenty-two-year-old woman, confused by the modern world and by the remnants of lives she cannot remember.
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Prodigal Son : A Novel
by Dean R. Koontz
He is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who has traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. he arrives in New Orleans as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Decucalion's path will lead him to detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison, who are tracking the slayer but will soon discover signs of something far more terrifying: an entire race of killers who are much more--and less--than human and, deadliest of all, their deranged, near-immortal maker: Victor Helios--once known as Frankenstein.
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The Ghost Brigades
by John Scalzi
When humanity is threatened by an alliance of three adversarial races who would halt the world's expansion into space, Jared Dirac, a super-power clone who serves in the Ghost Brigades for the Colonial Defense Forces, tries to discover why the scientist who gave Jared his DNA has revealed key military secrets.
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The Adoration of Jenna Fox
by Mary Pearson
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
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The Double
by José Saramago
Renting a recommended video to ease his depression, divorced history teacher Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is unsettled to see a man in the video who looks exactly the way he looked five years earlier, and when he decides to find his double, he learns a difficult lesson about the impact of experience on one's identity.
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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
A reunion with two childhood friends--Ruth and Tommy--draws Kath and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into the supposedly idyllic years of their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the serene English countryside, and a dramatic confrontation with the truth about their childhoods and about their lives in the present.
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Await Your Reply: a Novel
by Dan Chaon
While Miles pursues elusive letters and clues in a perpetual search for his missing twin, Ryan struggles with the discovery that he is adopted, and Lucy finds her daring escape from her hometown posing unexpectedly dangerous consequences.
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Cain's Blood
by Geoffrey Girard
When teen clones of infamous serial killers escape from a secret government facility, former Army Ranger Shawn Castillo enlists the help of a lovingly raised teen clone of Jeffrey Dahmer to track down the escapees, who are targeting a major city with a mysterious chemical weapon.
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Vitro
by Jessica Khoury
Resolving to find the scientist mother who left her behind years before, Sophie Crue enlists the help of hunky charter pilot Jim Julien to visit a remote Pacific island lab only to encounter beings created in a horrifying scientific experiment, genetically enhanced humans whose superior abilities are overshadowed by a terrible flaw.
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The Lord of Opium
by Nancy Farmer
In 2137, 14-year-old Matt is stunned to learn that, as the clone of old El Patron, he is expected to take over as leader of the corrupt drug empire of Opium, where there is also a hidden cure for the ecological devastation facing the rest of the world.
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Cast of Shadows
by Kevin Guilfoile
When his daughter is brutally raped and murdered, a grieving Davis Moore, a Chicago fertility doctor specializing in reproductive cloning, comes up with a horrifying idea--to clone the murderer who killed his daughter from a vial of the killer's DNA--in a debut thriller that asks chilling questions about identity and the consequences of duplicating a human life.
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The Experiment
by John Darnton
Strange happenings in New York, including the discovery of a corpse with its fingerprints burned off, combine with the unexplained disappearances of people from a Southeastern island to give hints of a deadly secret scientific experiment.
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The Bradbury Report: a Novel
by Steven Polansky
In the year 2071, the United States has implemented a wide-scale, government-run cloning program tied directly to health insurance. Each U.S. citizen has a clone to fulfill his or her medical needs. Twenty years since the program's inception, no one outside government has seen their copy, and no clone has successfully escaped--until now.
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Big Egos: a Novel
by S. G. Browne
A man discovers an anomaly that blurs the lines of reality while testing a serum at a bioengineering firm that will allow customers to become a fictional character or dead celebrity for several hours.
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The Lost Girl
by Sangu Mandanna
Fifteen-year-old Eva is the clone of a girl living far, far away on another continent and when this "other" dies, Eva must step in and take over her life.
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The Host: a Novel
by Stephenie Meyer
A member of a species that takes over the minds of human bodies, Wanderer is unable to disregard his host's love for a man in hiding, a situation that forces both possessor and host to become unwilling allies.
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The Rook: a Novel
by Daniel O'Malley
"The body you are wearing used to be mine." So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity and track down the agents who want to destroy her. She soon learns that she is a Rook, a high-ranking member of a secret organization called the Chequy that battles the many supernatural forces at work in Britain.
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7th Son: Descent
by J. C. Hutchins
In the aftermath of a bizarre presidential assassination that was committed by a child, seven identical men are abducted from their normal lives by a top-secret government agency that reveals their origins in a covert project that instilled each of them with special talents.
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Mister X: a Novel
by Peter Straub
During the week that culminates in his thirty-fifth birthday, Ned Dunstan experiences a series of extraordinary events that expose the long-hidden secret of his identity and his family's true nature, in a novel of the supernatural that explores the theme of the doppelganger.
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Man in the Empty Suit
by Sean Ferrell
Wearying of endless visits to the myriad points of human history, a time traveler attends his own 100th birthday celebration every year with other versions of himself and encounters in his 39th year his murdered 40-year-old body, a situation that compels him to prevent his own death.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep...They even built humans. Emigrées to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them.
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Beta
by Rachel Cohn
On a futuristic island paradise where humans are served by enslaved clones, a 16-year-old clone named Elysia seeks her own freedom.
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Ghost Spin
by Chris Moriarty
As interstellar colonies crumble, humanity's only hope for survival is to find the Drift, a mysterious region of space that may enable survival, but mankind will have to fight the clone-dominated Syndicates for control of it.
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