Hi James,

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 10:45:14PM -0700, James Newtons Massmind wrote:
>
> 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...

I read this story recently and I'm pretty certain that the author is Vernor
Vinge. It is a short story from "The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge". My
copy of the book in on loan, so I can't verify my memory, and Amazon doesn't
list the (complete) table of contents for the book, so I can't tell you the
title of the story. Maybe someone else on the list has this book?

I'm about 90% sure that I'm right though! ;)

Matthew

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