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* Matt, in Nancy Farmer's ''[[House of the Scorpion]]'', is treated like crap by most of the people in the world simply because clones are normally reduced to the intelligence level of invalids. They are marked as "property" and treated more like inanimate objects than living things. As you can probably tell, this is a big problem for Matt, who has not had his brain destroyed and is thus a sapient person. It doesn't make it better for him when he discovers that he was not meant to replace El Patron as ruler of Opium, the fictional nation in the book, but {{spoiler|to be harvested for organs once El Patron's went bad.}}
* In the ''[[Deathstalker]]'' novels by Simon R. Green, we have {{spoiler|Evangeline Shreck (cloned before the series starts to replace the Evangeline who was killed by her father when she wouldn't let him rape her), and the clone of High Lord Dram}}. And the clones (and sometimes [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|esper clones]]) that the empire enslaves for labor.
* Clones in the ''[[Dune]]'' novels, called gholas, are realistic to an extent in that they are created as embryos, and must fully gestate and grow up at a normal rate. The similarity ends there, though—a ghola can be "shocked" into recovering all the memories its original had up until the moment of death, even if the original was still alive at the time his cells were harvested. (This applies for ALL humans, not just clones. In ''
** Gholas originally weren't strictly clones. Up until the third book in the series, gholas are the actual bodies of the deceased. They're just placed into axlotl tanks as quickly as possible, which essentially regrows the dead tissue and brain cells enough that the body is brought back to life. The body has no memories of its former life. But then, the Bene Tleilax engineered a [[Xanatos Gambit]] that resulted in the ghola having their psyche exposed to something their former life would vehemently oppose, which shocks their mind into reawakening. The later novels have gholas grown from simple cells, rather than the original body, so they are true clones—but they are still known as gholas because the term evolved over time to encompass a far more complicated definition. They still have the stigma of necromancy, though.
* The clones in [[William Sleator]]'s ''[[The Duplicate]]'' have it rough. First off they get less and less sane the farther from the original they are, and the sanest ones develop black marks on their hands and die abruptly. Since they're not convinced that they are copies (they're physically and mentally identical to the original until the marks appear), this all feels monstrously unfair.
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* In Jeff Long's ''Year Zero'', adult human clones are created using ancient DNA, then used as expendable guinea pigs for research to cure an unstoppable plague. Not only are these clones fully sentient, but they retain the memories of their entire lives, up to and including their deaths, and so assume they're being punished in the afterlife.
* ''[[The Cuckoo's Boys]]'' by [[Robert Reed]] revolves around the aftermath of a tailored virus causing millions of women to be "impregnated" artificially with the genetic code of a brilliant biologist. The clones (referred to as "Philip Stevens" or PSes) all have their creators features and high IQ, but develop uniquely based on who raises them; it doesn't stop mandatory sterilization, acts of terrorism, genocide, and glorified concentration camps, however.
* The title character of ''[[Joshua, Son of None]]'', a 1973 novel by Nancy Freedman, is Joshua Francis Kellogg, the apparent son of a rich and ambitious man who is actually the clone of a [[John F. Kennedy|coyly unidentified President]] who died in an assassination in Dallas, TX in the early 1960s.
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