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See also [[Brain Uploading]], [[Born As an Adult]], [[Justified Extra Lives]], [[Only One Me Allowed Right Now]], and [[Heart Drive]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* The ''[[Riverworld]]'' series. When someone died in Riverworld, their wathan (soul) was collected, a new body was created for them and the wathan was released and re-attached to it.
* ''[[Vorkosigan Saga (Literature)|Vorkosigan Saga]]'': Some very rich and very evil people clone themselves, then when the clones are in their twenties have their brain transplanted into the clone's body. Mark has made it his life's work to eliminate this practice, by inventing a life-extension technology that does not depend on committing murder.
* ''[[The Callista Trilogy|Darksaber]]'' features Bevel Lemelisk, chief designer of the Death Star, as a major character. Prominent mention is given to how the Emperor used to have him executed for his failures - [[Family
** The Emperor wasn't above using this method himself and was reborn in a clone body some time after dying in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'', but then he was killed again and hasn't come back.
* In [[John Varley]]'s [[Eight Worlds]] series, the technology exists to make a copy of a person's memories, and to grow a clone from a tissue sample. Life insurance now consists of going in for annual (or more often, if you can afford it) backups of your memories, and if you get killed, your insurance company grows a clone, and loads your memories into it. Having more than one of you running around at once is very illegal, however, and any extra clones discovered are subject to summary destruction. This allows at least one unscrupulous character to create slaves with no rights or recourse, since their very existence is a crime.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Paranoia (Tabletop Game)|Paranoia]]'', The Computer is aware of the importance of backups, so all citizens are part of a six-pack of clones <ref>in the latest versions, you can buy more, but they're pricey</ref> - when one dies, his memories (including how he died) are [[We Will Use Wiki Words in The Future|MemoMaxed]] into his next-of-clone, who picks up wherever he left off. Especially important for the PCs, whose high-risk careers as Troubleshooters tend to [[Kill
* ''[[Eclipse Phase]]'' borrows the cortical stack concept from the abovementioned ''[[Altered Carbon]]'' novel and externally stored "backups" are considerably more common (instead of being exclusive to the wealthy as in ''Carbon'').
* ''[[Car Wars]]''. A duelist can arrange to have Gold Cross grow a clone from his cells and store a copy of his mind. If he dies, his mind is downloaded into the clone and the player continues to use the character.
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