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Repro from CatWoman(2002) Volume 3

“The Bobiverse saga” by Dennis E. Taylor

A human turned Von Neuman probe (a self replicating space machine) makes independent copies of himself in the dead of space. Gave me a panic attack from the existentialism and I never finished it. For normal people, I’m sure it's great.

“Mickey7” by Edward Ashton

A space station creates copies of its workers when they perish. Titular character gets copied when he is presumed dead, leading to two of him. Sequel “Antimatter Blues” doesn’t focus on cloning.

“Duplicate” by Alex Feinman

Similar to Mickey7 but if the copies revolted against the space faring company. They create a crew after setting the machine to constantly clone themselves as they work to escape their shit situation.

“Liminal States” by Zach Parsons

A cowboy and his rival fall into an immortality ooze. They resurrect from it whenever they die, but occasionally it spits out a duplicate of either of them. Love cowboys.

“Kiln People” by David Brin

Society where temporary duplicates is the norm. Lots of dehumanization for these “golems”, who die after a day and whose only hope for continuation is having their memories absorbed. Pretty fucked up.

“Cube” by Michael Whetzel

Man gets duplicated (alongside his dog) by an anomalous cube, becoming three semi hive-minded clones. They go off to live separate lives.

“Snakeskins” by Tim Major

In this world rich people just spontaneously create duplicates(called “skins” I think) that rejuvenate their bodies. These duplicates are usual temporary, horrifically disintegrating moments after duplicating. Some rich folk’s clones don’t vanish though and they have a growing stockpile of duplicates.

“Mirror Image” by Michael G. Coney

An alien creature is found upon colonization that perfectly duplicates a person’s loved one. Those with enough of an ego create a duplicate of themself. This alien will even create composite personas when around multiple people. Super trippy and surprisingly sympathetic to the aliens.

“Parallelities” by Alan Dean Foster

Deals with the phenomenon of parallel universe selves meeting each other. Random people find exact doubles of themselves or slightly different versions.

“Scott too” by Victor Giannini

A regular ol guy gets duplicated one night without explanation. They diverge, one remaining lazy while the other grows to be better and more successful.

“Mysterious Strangers” by Dayle Courtney

The main characters, Eric and Allison, meet two amnesiac duplicates of themselves at the police station.

“Past Continuous” by K. Ryer Breese

A man meets parallel selves, becoming a partner in crime with one of them. Inevitably though he is forced to absorb them all.

“Cellmates” by Robert Alan Burton

Ten clones of the same man discover each other's existences. Some are completely identical in fashion and personality and some aren’t.

“Falling Sideways” by Tom Holt

Cloning vats are a seemingly mundane object in the world that one can spawn permanent duplicates from. The plot hinges on it, a vat controlled by a shady man with an enormous amount of clones of himself that come about due to him not being very careful with his own DNA around the vat. Also some characters are humanoid frogs, which was a strange and funny bit of worldbuilding. Idk why they are frogs.

“Annals of the Heechee” by Frederik Pohl

Doppels can be used in which a person is synthetically replicated, allowing them to be in two places at once. The Doppel of them is treated as expendable and is terminated once it has finished its task.

“Midas” by Wolfgang Jeschke

Copies of people can be produced. These copies are inexplicably tangled mentally with their originals at first, but the connection erodes with separation. There is still a sympathy that comes with interacting copies and originals.

“Target Silverclaw” by Simon Cheshire

Sir Godfrey meets an identical android of himself.

“View from another shore” by Ed. Franz Rottensteiner

A man, Trurl (weird name), creates numerous digital duplicates of himself to run research. He is quick to think he can easily dispose of them, but ethics is taken into consideration.

“Doomship” by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson

Main character, Ben Pertins, uses an interplanetary form of “transportation” that duplicates a person across the galaxy. Both the original and copy are considered “Ben Pertins” and are considered equally real. This can be seen when Ben’s wife worries about her other husband who is likely in danger despite being with his counterpart on earth.

“Clade” edited by Madison Scott-Clary

Universe in which people are uploaded. They can create branches of themselves. These duplicates can be reconverged or become indépendant. Clade is a collection of stories about that setting, my favorite being a writer who makes duplicates that focus on specific genres. Lots of furry stories too though, which is dépendant on the person if that’s a pro or a con

“The Man Who Folded Himself” by Davis Gerold

A man can do a strange mixture of time travel and parallel universe jumping. He forms a codependent relationship with the him that jumps back in time commonly to a day before, there always being a version of him that has been through that day before. There are also alternate selves.

“Cloned Again: An Absurd Short Story” by Shelley Dawn Siddall

A man, Marvin, is initially cloned once by his family while on a mission in deep space. After leaving that initial clone on a planet, they decide to clone Marvin again. They leave the cloning machine on and the clones decide to rescue the initial clone. Cloning seems super casual in this novel, which is funny.

“L’Énigma de Givreuse” by J.-H Rosny. Translated and adapted by Brian Stableford as “The Givreuse Enigma”.

One of the first written instances of duplication of a character (ignoring old old stuff like the Monkey King). A soldier is duplicated in two during a battle and comes home as two. They like each other’s company, feeling like halves of one another.

“11 of me” by Jiae Go and Jaeyeong Yeong

A very well made WEBTOON that follows a man using an antique Time Machine to produce paradox duplicates rather than time travel much. They all live together and share a life.

"Replica" by Paul Jenkins and Andy Clark

A high quality comic about a man who accidentally orders a large amount of clones. These clones help him with his detective work and have a large variation in personality.

"Galaxy Trucker Double Trouble" by Jason A. Holt

A novel written to subverse clone infighting tropes. This man gets duplicated, immediately befriends his clone and works to share his life with him. They even enter into a throuple with their wife and start a family. Very wholesome.

“All My Alter-Egos Are Tycoons” by ?????

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