Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And after it's grown,
Then my own little clone
Will be of the opposite sex.
The Beam Me Up blog has posted "The Clone Song", a ditty sung to the tune of Home on the Range, penned by Randall Garrett and Isaac Asimov. As the first verse above suggests, it's all about -er- self love.
It actually reminds me a bit of "Nine Lives", Ursula Le Guin's clone-based short story that was published in Playboy in 1969. Those clones didn't need anyone but each other either. (I find the whole "if I had a clone I'd be totally into incest" theme a bit creepy, but it's a popular one in SF.)
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Popular, yes...but as a speculative fiction, ahem, lover, I am a bit distressed by the trend. But it does seem to illustrate the inherent and yet mostly unacknowledged narcissism in the human psyche!
ReplyDeleteCould the verse be called SFP Peggy?
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ReplyDeleteWe had a SF Poetry session in just held sf Conference in India at Aurngabad ,the place of famous World heritage sites of Ajanta n Elora caves -so the above query in that perspective only! Asimov was very fond of limericks like these ! But could we call this one too an sf poem? Or an SF limerick?
Would you enlighten pl?
I would definitely call it SF Poetry, since it's based on science that's still in the future - not only when it was written, but even today.
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