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Originally Posted by CRussel
I don't agree in a general sense, though I understand that might not work for you. The book isn't about the science, so any details on it is extraneous to the core of the book. Or, at least that's my perception of it. No, this isn't a science fiction book, though it's not set in our current world. Could he have written it as a pure SF book? Certainly. But it would have been a different book, with a different raison d'etre. Would I have liked it better? Hard to imagine I would have liked it less. But clearly that was not the author's intent, and I'm willing to grant that he didn't allow himself to get distracted from the main point.
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I must not be making myself clear. I'm not looking for SCIENCE; I'm looking for sense. I said in the initial discussion that I'd be perfectly happy if he made up explanations--I can suspend disbelief with the best of them; I'm not looking for them to be scientifically valid, just plausible. But when he goes contrary to fact, he needs to have a reason that's important to the story--as in his making the clones sterile.