of "born-man" mind sets to balance them, and thus produce a more stable society. Azi characters are featured in the following Cherryh books: Serpent's Reach (1980) Downbelow Station (1981) Port Eternity (1982) Merchanter's Luck (1982) Forty Thousand in Gehenna (1983) Cyteen (1988) Regenesis (2009) Reception Gregory Pence in his 1998 book compared Cherryh's Cyteen trilogy to Ridley Scott's Bladerunner, calling them "two famous, fictional treatment" of cloning. He noted that one of the focal themes of Cyteen is the moral injustice of treating human clones as "things or slaves". Notes The production of azi is very similar to the normal policy of human reproduction used in Aldous Huxley's classic novel Brave New World, complete with tiered ranks based upon overall intelligence and education via "tape". References Sources Alliance–Union universe Fictional clones Human-derived fictional species