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[onthefringe]

Hoping the hive mind can help me out. For various reasons, I'm accruing a bibliography of fiction that addresses  issues surrounding cloning, especially human cloning. I'm doing fine with novels, movies, TV, but am really drawing a blank on short fiction.

Any ideas?

[frogfactory]

How about the Futures section of Nature magazine?

If children's fiction also counts, I remember a Nicholas Fisk story that involves a girl cloning herself from a kit, but I'd have to look it up.

[sonnet_sequence]

T.C. Boyle's short story "Admiral" is about cloned dogs.

[systeme_d_]

Here's a list that includes a number of short stories.

http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/clone.html

And don't forget Terry Bisson's short story, "Macs."

[onthefringe]

Here's a list that includes a number of short stories.

http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/clone.html

And don't forget Terry Bisson's short story, "Macs."

I'd forgotten that Macs story. Very Creepy.

[ega110]

I have two suggestions. They are short novels but are very good.

1: never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro: This book is very subtle but heartbreaking. It is about the childhoods of a trio of friends living in a boarding school who learn they were cloned for the purpose of harvesting their organs.

2: where late the sweet bird sang by Kate Wilhelm: this book is about how a group of mountain people attempt to repopulate the earth though cloning after an environmental collapse.

[patchouli]

Not really cloning per se, but the idea of human-type dummies or "replicants":  "The Dummy" by Susan Sontag and "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldess (A.I. was based somewhat on this)