AEG clones...send them in

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 18 Dec 2008, 17:36 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:36:03 -0800
Subject: (urth) AEG clones...send them in
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A third possibliity is that the President did not know that Reise, Rosinquist
and Rusterman were the same person.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> wrote:
> James Wynn wrote:
>>
>> So if Bill Reis is one of the evil men in the world who are the other two
>> that John referred to?
>> Wally Rosenquist and Wade Rusterman? So are we talking about three
>> separate men here?
>>
>
> I'm still unsure, but the idea is growing on me a little. There's the odd
> change of names at the end:
> "Oh Bill, my poor Bill. Why did you have to die?"..."Please, oh please
> Wally! Come back to me!" This makes sense if Cassie has figured out that
> they are two different people.
>
> Another way to get doubles other than cloning is by time-travel. If a person
> hopped to Woldercon, there' s a possibility that they could return before
> they left. Early on, Reis shows uncanny speed in reacting to Cassie's
> recruitment by Chase. He gets a play book written, a bracelet made, and a
> director in place before she has even performed once at star level.
> Time-travel might explain this.
>
> On the other hand, if Bill Reis had clones or temporal doubles who were
> working with him, then we would expect them to help him when he needed to be
> in two places at once. We have a case where it would have been convenient
> for this to have happened and it didn't: the date with Cassie at
> Rusterman's. Reis wanted to go out with her and also search her apartment.
> If he had a co-operative double, why not do both and give himself an alibi
> for the search?
>
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