Classic Science Fiction Novels, March 2012

CYTEEN is a twisted take of humans and cloning and the ripple effect of the death of a prominent scientist named Ariane Emory. Who killed Ariane? And why? She is a super genius who has led the political and scientific life on the planet of Cyteen. With her dead, a powerplay emerges with one faction attempting to take her vacant seat. The other faction attempts to raise Ari, a clone of Ariane, and do so in a manner that will make her just as brilliant and ruthless as her namesake. It's total immersion into a very vivid world and a questioning of what it is to be "alien" and the morality of control.