At 10:45 PM 9/22/2006 -0700, you wrote:
>Just watched "The Island." More or less entertaining, especially if you like
>scrawny blonds (I don't), but the basic story line was taking from so many
>SF stories it's hard to count. 
>
>It has elements from:
>
>- Logans Run.
>- Coma.
>- THX-1139.
>- Blade Runner.
>-
>
>And here is the part that is bugging me:
>
>I KNOW I read a story years ago where a rich guy has himself cloned, the
>clone escapes, finds the original, kills the orginal, is mistaken for the
>original and then the kicker at the end is that someone tells the "guy" that
>the clone couldn't have made it anyway 'cause he had a slow acting poison or
>"celular degeration" or some other such thing built in so it would only live
>a short time.
>
>Does anyone else remember that story?
>
>I thought it was a Bradbury, but I can't find any mention of it on the net.
>Now it's going to bug me...
 

Would it be Blade Runner?

I recently just saw The Island myself. My favorite line from it:

Biker: "What's your number?"

Jordan: "Two Delta!"

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