Blueprint. Blaupause

By Charlotte Kerner

Book Overview

"Fesselnd bis zur letzten Seite ist dieses Buch einer der aufregendsten Beiträge zur Diskussion um die Gen-Technologie." Saarbrücker Zeitung Ein brandaktuelles Thema, der geklonte Mensch, steht im... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822500809
• ISBN13: 9780822500803
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Lerner Publications
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

Great story, I liked this book

As both an author and reader of fiction, I was impressed with "Blueprint". Maybe it is because I have always enjoyed a book that could hold my attention and make me think at the same time. Give this book a try. The fiction book that I have written main story theme is about ten years in the life of a little girl who was "chosen by God" to be the next Madonna in the second coming of Christ. Yes it has cloning in it. Tommy Taylor Author - The Second Virgin Birth

Life as a Clone

Siri, a woman in her thirties living sometime in the near future, is looking back at her life and telling her unhappy story. It all started when her mother, Iris, was in her thirties. Iris was a very talented and famous piano player and composer, but she was unmarried and had no children. When she was struck with an attack of MS, a debilitating and eventually fatal disease, she got scared and decided she didn't want to die. Furthermore, she decided she wanted someone to carry on her legacy so even after she did die she would be remembered. She turned to cloning, a new and still controversial science, and used her own cells to clone a daughter, Siri, who was just like her. Iris was certain that Siri would be just as musically talented as she was and would insure that even though Iris would die, a part of her would live on. At first things seem to be going well. As a child Siri loves music and loves her mother, despite the fact that her mother is too busy touring to be around much, and even when she is home she often locks Siri out of her room so she can compose something. But then as Siri grows older, she begins to question her mother's choice to clone her, seeing it as selfish and egotistical. Siri begins to have difficulty finding her own identity, living in the shadow of her mother-twin. This story examines the feelings a clone might have as she tries to determine her own individuality and separate herself from her clone. I liked the deep psychology, the imaginary look into the brain of someone who had been cloned to see how that person would feel about her life and about the person who had cloned her. It brought up a lot of points I had never considered. I liked seeing Siri's grandmother's thoughts about her grandchild and why she couldn't accept cloning. I was distracted by the shift in perspective between the first person narrator and the third person narrator in this book. I thought one or the other should have beeen chosen. I didn't like Iris' character; I found her completely unsympathetic as a mother who placed conditions on the love of her child. I also didn't like that little was done with Janeck, although Siri stressed how important he was at the beginning of the book.

Blueprint

Are you one of a kind? Are you a twin? Are you a CLONE? This book, a translation from German,is loosely set in the next thousand years is about a German concert pianist and composer, Iris Sellin, who finds herself at the age of thirty with MS. She has no family to speak of. She reads about cloning and sets things in motion to convince a Canadian doctor to allow her to be his human experiment in cloning. Here begins the practice of creating ego-clones. The book is written in diary form from the perspective of the cloned daughter, or is she a twin? It is a terrifying journey into the possibilities. What if we could do this? Would you really want to be a clone? Do you have an identity? Whose identity is it then? Government control? The questions that are raies are endless. "The book Blueprint is an argument." confides the author, and so it is.