Silver says that human cloning will happen, it's only a matter of time. This nonfiction book starts out with some astonishing futuristic scenarios in chapter one. Then things got a little bit boring for me in chapters two and three where Silver tries to define life and gets into the abortion debate, but then the book picks up and really excels when it gets back to cloning and reproduction. Lee Silver sees a future in which we clone humans and we genetically engineer them. He shares a lot about the technology that is going to make it all happen.
Silver really knows the material.
How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family , has recently come out. A great book by Gina Kolata, the New York Times reporter who first broke the cloning story in the United States. This book goes over the history of cloning and reviews the science that led to cloning. Kolata has talked to the key players and we get to know them personally as we read their fascinating stories. An addional plus is that she exposes some of the questionable motivations behind the ethics movement in America.