Love in the time of cloning: science fictions of transgressive kinship.(Critical Essay) Extrapolation | June 22, 2004| | COPYRIGHT 2004 Extrapolation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Science fiction has long played with the notion of the doubled self, and the speculative potential of the double was extended when the term "human cloning" entered cultural parlance in the late 1960s. Bolstered by Gordon Rattray Taylor's popular nonfiction book The Biological Time-Bomb, numerous narratives contemplated the potential risks, advantages, exploitations, perversities, and satisfactions of having or being a clone. But it was with the July 1996 cloning of Dolly, the Scottish sheep, that political urgency was injected into the cloning debate--a political urgency ...

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