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Originally Posted by Catlady
I also wondered about the inability of the clones to reproduce; animals that are cloned don't have any such limitation, so was he just ignoring science because he didn't know better, or did he want to convey something to the reader?
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The author did not intend to make a scientifically realistic world. It is a world that has been imagined in his head, and he has disclosed to the reader that a known condition of this world is that the clones cannot breed. We have to accept that as a fact, and I think it’s a good question to ask what was his intent. I think that he was emphasizing that the clones have a singular purpose to become donors until completion. If they were able to reproduce, and perhaps extend that to create family units, that would give them additional purpose and distraction towards their donation purpose and possibly impact their passivity towards their fate.