{5\/5} “She had good roommates — but would they want to live with a dupe? If clones weren’t physically handicapped, they were morally deficient, unnatural, and soulless. It would be like living with a known thief, and if the mutiny changed the law, it wouldn’t change minds about the things that everyone knew.”<\/p>\n
Immunity Index<\/strong> by Sue Burke, published in 2021<\/p>\n Avril, Berenike, and Irene have just found out that they’re clones and clones are illegal now. But there’s going to be a big protest, maybe even a mutiny, in a couple of days and hopefully things will change back to the way they used to be. Meanwhile, Peng has been tasked by the government to create a variant of a deadly virus that they can release on purpose — that won’t cause serious symptoms but will stop people from catching the deadly variant.<\/p>\n It’s about people who act reasonably during an emergency, and people who don’t.<\/p>\n Burke starting writing this book before the pandemic. She understood, in a way that most people did not, how likely it was to happen.<\/p>\n Many things have been terrible in real life lately. This book shows how things could be terrible in a slightly different way, and suggests that reasonable people need to work together to make things better.<\/p>\n