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Originally Posted by gmw
I still don't get why there is this suggestion that the sterility angle is an anomaly. Making the clones sterile isn't even science fiction, there are many ways it can be done (several involving no genetics at all). And there are many reasons why it might be done: in our world companies make GM crops infertile for commercial reasons. (One can easily envisage these clones as a sort of GM crop.)
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Because clones are not sterile in the animal world. Because these clones would have to be made sterile. Because if they were made sterile, the reader has a right to wonder why that choice was made. Because the author does not indicate why.
If animal clones were infertile, fine, I wouldn't question why sterility was mentioned. But they're not.
However, I would still question why he mentioned sex with non-clones and then did nothing with it.