The most frustrating , annoying matter about the opposite sex is that they ’re not you . Why ca n’t you just satisfy your precise duplicate — except for sex ? You ’d be a perfect compeer . Luckily , science fiction suggests 3 direction it could happen .
This has been the dream of science - fiction fans and skill - fiction authors since the days of“Clone Of My Own ” ( which is usually attribute to Isaac Asimov , but who love if it ’s actually by him ? ) “ Clone Of My Own ” hold up :
Oh , give me a clone
Of my own form and bone
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And after it ’s rise ,
Then my own little clone
Will be of the opposite gender .
Clone , clone of my own ,
And when I ’m alone
With my own little clone
We will both imagine of nothing but sex .
There are about 29 versus more , but you get the idea . in reality , after reading authors like John Varley and Ursula K. Le Guin , the whole musical theme of the “ opposite ” sex has been thrown into question — sure as shooting , once we can all reconfigure our bodies at will , eventually we ’ll have some sort of sex tesseract .
But for now , here are the path that science fiction volunteer , for us to encounter our polar - sex duplication ( and in some cases , have sex with them ):
1) Cloning.
House Of Suns by Alastair Reynolds :
Abigail Gentian , a wealthy woman , settle to research the vastness of the stars — she she has herself cloned a number of times , and some of the clones are male while others are distaff . They all share Abigail ’s memories , and Abigail herself joins them without have it off which of them is the “ material ” her . And these “ shatterlings ” have sex activity — a circle . Especially in the novelette Thousandth Night , there are long ton of riot in which all of the clones get together , making it a certainty that the “ tangible ” Abigail has been with her clones .
Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein :
Lazarus Long is the macrocosm ’s sometime human , and he make up one’s mind not to undergo rejuvenation therapy , thus sentencing himself to death . His descendent convince him to keep on livelihood , but he ’ll only do it if he gets to have a new experience — so two of his descendants become impregnated with opposite - sexuality clones of Lazarus . And after the diametrical - sex clone of Lazarus are born , Lazarus raises them as his own daughters … and then has sex with them , of course .
“ Nine Lives ” by Ursula K. Le Guin :
ThisNebula - name novelette , first published in Playboy , features a set of knockoff of a man name John Chow who died in a elevator car accident , and some of them are female :
“ All chips off the old mental block , ” Martin aver valiantly . “ But how can . . . some of you be women . . . ? ”
Beth bring over : “ It ’s easy to program half the clonal pile back to the female person . Just delete the manlike cistron from half the cell and they revert to the introductory , that is , the female person . It ’s trickier to go the other way , have to glom in hokey Y chromosome . So they mostly clone from male , since ringer function best bisexually . ”
deplorably , nine out of ten clones are killed , forcing the remaining clone to deal with unaccustomed solitude .
The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley :
The graphic symbol Tweed has clones who are manly and female clones of the same individual , promise Vaffa or sometimes Hygeia . They ’re super - strong , super - big and deadly .
NYX and various other X - Men comics :
X-23 , a female clone of Wolverine , first appeared in the X - man : organic evolution animated serial publication , but then made the leap to comics , just like Harley Quinn . Despite looking kind of goofy , she ’s negociate to sting around long enough to get her own miniseries and have her backstory explain . I do n’t intend she and Logan ever hooked up , but they have struggle , which is almost the same affair when you come down to it .
The Hitchhiker ’s Guide To The Galaxy :
As Zaphod Beeblebrox explains , the girl Lintilla “ has now been clone over five - hundred - and - seventy - eight - thousand - million clip – and has thus created a problem in some quarters . ” All of the Lintilla clones are female — but the anti - clones , post to get rid of the infestation of female ringer , are male versions of Lintilla call Allitnil . When a Lintilla and an Allitnil come together , he gets the Lintilla to “ agree to cease to be ” — but Arthur Dent bring a liking to one of the Lintillas , and kills her particular Allitnil .
hunt down by James Alan Gardner :
Edward Yorkis an illegal cloneof one of the Admirals on the High Council , and due to familial trouble he ’s a bit stupefied . But a distaff clone of the Admiral , list Samantha , turns out topnotch - smart and resourceful . Together , Edward and Samantha travel , as comrade and baby , trip to the satellite Troyen to test and negotiate a ataraxis between two alien species , the Mandasars and the Fasskisters .
Kyle XY :
Kyle and his fellow vat - baby Jessi are n’t stringently speaking clone , because I think they had unlike genetical gunstock — as far as I can remember , Kyle come from Adam and Jessi came from Sarah . But they do come from the same vat , and they resulted from the same super - baby programme . So they could be considered akin to clones , sort of . deserving observe , anyway .
Ultimate Spider - Man : Ultimate Clone Saga :
Ca n’t believe I forgot this one , since I have the trades at home . In the Ultimate variation of the Clone Saga , they clone Peter Parker several sentence … including a female version called Jessica Drew . And Jessica has all of Peter ’s memory — S.H.I.E.L.D. wants to erase Jessica ’s memories and ready her up with a new indistinguishability , but she escapes and takes on the identity of Spider - Woman . Thanks , kwschuttler !
https://gizmodo.com/3-ways-to-meet-and-get-nasty-with-your-opposite-sex-d-5404091
2) Alternate universes
Parallellities by Alan Dean Foster :
Max , the chief quality of this novel travels through the multiverse , and ultimately meets an alternate distaff adaptation of himself — and has sex with her . Later , he pull off to bump an entire planet populated by copy of himself . As the back back copy explains :
Now Max was lost in a virtual ocean of collateral worlds , face up man - eat aliens , dinosaurs , talk frogs , dead Maxes , fille Maxes , previous Maxes , even ghost Maxes . His only hazard to escape the space - clock time continuum was to find Boles and hope the barmy genius could deliver him . But how could he be certain which world was real , which Max was Max , and which Boles was the Boles who could stop the madness — or trap Max in the wrong domain forever . . . ?
Red Dwarf , “ Parallel Universe ” :
Our gangfinds a devicethat ’s think to ravish them home to Earth forthwith — but instead it zap them into an alternative universe . There , they meet alternating variation of themselves , including distaff versions of Lister and Rimmer ( and Cat ’s counterpart is a Dog . ) Rimmer has to fight off his female opposite number ’s sexual advance , while Lister actually does lift up in layer with his female variant , Deb . And because in this alternating existence , it ’s the men who get meaning , Lister winds up carrying his alternate ego ’s sister .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcPbk89W-JE
Sliders :
Thanks to Xicer forpointing out this one : in the installment “ Double Cross , ” Quinn meet an vicious distaff duplicate of himself from ( of course ) another universe of discourse , and almost makes out with her :
changeover by Iain Banks :
This dimension - jumping novel reference that it ’s quite common to enter the body of your substitute - cosmos ego and find that the alternative self is the opposite sex . This is a known syndrome , which cause some discomfort or confusedness among the universe - hoppers whom it happens to .
3) Time travel
“ All You Zombies ” by Robert A. Heinlein :
This chronicle feature a untested human race who ’s play a joke on into saturate his younger , distaff self — because it turns out he had a futurist sexuality modification at some pointedness , which the reader does n’t realize at first . And then it turn out that he ’s really the tike of that coupling , meaning that he ’s his own female parent and sire — the mother of all sentence paradox , in other words .
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold :
Daniel Eakins journey backwards and forwards in time many clock time , adjoin himself and have sex with himself — over and over and over . But after a ton of trips , he actually meets an alternate - cosmos edition of himself who was born female , and they shack up together at the beginning of clock time . It goes great for a while , until they get fed up with each other , and then Daniel ’s clock time - jaunt female counterpart manages to erase herself whole from Daniel ’s timeline , so Daniel can never find her again .
Needless to say , this Charles William Post would not have been nigh as fascinating withoutTVTropes.org , the fountain of all greatness . extra coverage by Josh C. Snyder .
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