Writer Discussion: Duplicates
Today’s topic comes from QSFer Jim Comer: Jim asks about the thorny problem of duplication – if you are beamed from one place to another, is it really you? If you are duplicated, which of you gets the legal rights? He points us to this article: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Twinmaker Older, more often used, and more traditional is the beaming method. You convert your passenger and/or cargo to electromagnetic waves, fire the beam across space, catch it in a receiver and convert the electromagnetic energy back into matter. A modification is Poul Anderson’s system in THE ENEMY STARS. Poul’s system records the position … Read more