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Originally Posted by ardeegee
Actually, not an uncommon trope. Look here if you want a few more examples.
One short story that I remembered (and found the name and author of thanks to my external electronic memory aid, otherwise known as "Google") is Born Again by K. D. Wentworth.
http://www.sfsite.com/07b/fs5204.htm
A copy of the story is findable if someone were to search for it... |
On the subject ‘The Son of Man’ being not an uncommon trope.
I beg to differ. It may have been done, but nowhere near as mainstream as the vampire trope before Stephanie Meyer wrote the Twilight series, or the wizard trope before JK Rowling wrote the Harry Potter series, or the serial killer trope before Thomas Harris wrote The Silence of the Lambs, or the Titanic trope (which is considered by some to be an entire genre:
http://www.titanic-titanic.com/forum....php?f=16&t=23 )
before James Cameron wrote and directed Titanic… etc, etc, and on and on… Over and over we see it’s not the trope that counts but the twist.
With respect to the first book in The Son of Man series, the cloning of Christ is merely the backdrop to the story of the young segregate couple and their dealings with the project’s malevolent financiers, The Vinces.