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Originally Posted by darryl
[...snipped for brevity...] The demand for organs in this dystopia is not necessarily just for transplant. They are needed to be used in some unexplained fashion to produce the cures. [...]
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Yes. This is the sort of thing I was trying to get at earlier: that what seem to be holes are not necessarily holes largely thanks to the lack of traditional sci-fi explanation. All the reader needs is to do is accept that such explanations can exist. The reader may, optionally, choose to use their imagination to fill in the blanks for themselves, but because the technical background is incidental (cloning is a prop, not the raison d'ętre), they risk creating holes for themselves. Sometimes it is better to just accept.
The very lack of detailed explanation is one reason why (I thought) it was clear that cloning and organ donation were not the subject of this story.
Regarding the "just accept" bit above. We can be more inclined to do so with a known/trusted author. A new author cannot always get away with pushing their readers quite this far. Reputation and experience have to count for something.