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Noumenon by Marina J. Lostetter
3.0

Disappointing, given the hype. The developments of the closed society of clones followed predictable lines for the genre that didn't seem particularly connected to the clone society or the people we met in it. The portrayal of Earth society seemed especially unimaginative.
Spoiler2000 years later and the only notable differences between Earth humans and 1800-years-behind clone humans is that Earth humans speak in internet abbreviations (RL for real life, etc) through implants that let them communicate mind-to-mind, and a total lack of curiosity. This seems... unlikely.


The book was trying to be social science fiction (ala. [b:Foundation|29579|Foundation (Foundation #1)|Isaac Asimov|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1417900846s/29579.jpg|1783981] or [b:Children of Time|25499718|Children of Time (Children of Time #1)|Adrian Tchaikovsky|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1431014197s/25499718.jpg|45276208]) but didn't seem willing to follow any idea about societal change to its logical conclusions.