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From back cover Warner paperback February 1989: ARIANE EMORY IS DEAD. BUT NOT FOR LONG. WHERE IS ARIANE? For fifty years, Dr. Ariane Emory has dominated politics on Cyteen Station. Because Dr. Emory controls Reseune, a city-sized factory that creates the one item essential to the planet's wealth. *Reseune produces people* -- computer-trained azi servants and soldiers. Then Araine Emory is assassinated. Yet her rivals and victims, people like Dr. Jordan Warrick, his cloned son Justin, and Justin's azi brother Grant, are not freed by her death. For Emory's murder has turned Reseune into a vast, tyrannical experiment: an attempt to merge nature -- and nurture... biotech -- and cybernetics... genetics -- and psychology... heredity -- and environment. Cyteen's labs can grow clones, but Ariane Emory's followers want more. Much more. The want to re-create Ariane.
Is The Betrayal appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
This hard science fiction novel explores cloning, genetic engineering, and political assassination with moderate violence and complex ethical themes involving the recreation of a murdered scientist through her clone.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, mild sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include murder, cloning/body autonomy, and psychological manipulation (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teens interested in hard science fiction will be intrigued by the ethical questions around cloning, identity, and whether you can truly recreate a person.