Can anyone remeber a book like this?

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The discussion revolves around a book that features a transportation system allowing individuals to send their genetic information to distant worlds, resulting in the creation of a clone or robotic version of themselves. The original person would then connect their nervous system to this clone via a projection device to control it until they needed to return. A participant recalls an episode of "The Outer Limits" that similarly depicts a cloning transportation device, where the original must be killed after the cloning process, highlighting the ethical dilemmas and dangers associated with such technology. The conversation reflects on the challenges of recalling specific details about the book and the implications of cloning in science fiction narratives.
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ok can anyone actually remember what this book is...
but it had to do with transportion between distant worlds where your genetic information would be sent ahead of time and they would basically clone you, or it may have been create a robotic version of you (it's been years since I read this book)... then when you actaully wanted to arive they would hook your nervous system up to some kind of projection device and you could control this "clone" until you needed to return...
it really has been a while since I read this book... so any help would be greatly apprectiated
 
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No but I saw an Outer Limits episode the other night about a transportation device that cloned you at the other end and they had to kill the original.

Raavin
 
Originally posted by Raavin
No but I saw an Outer Limits episode the
other night about a transportation device
that cloned you at the other end and they
had to kill the original.
Not many volunteers for that one, I guess...
 
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