\n\n\n\nyo what was the SF novel where it was like \u201ctotally incidental to the main plot, this space station is manned by five identical clone sisters that have the hottest lesbian incest orgies?\u201d
Titan, by John Varley!
\n\n\n\u201cI don\u2019t want to make it sound too brutal,\u201d August had said on that occasion, a night when some glasses of Bill\u2019s soybean wine had been consumed. \u201cThose scientists were not monsters. A lot of the behaved like kindly aunts and uncles. We had just about anything we wanted. I\u2019m sure a lot of them loved us.\u201d She had taken another drink. \u201cAfter all,\u201d she said, \u201cwe cost a lot of money.\u201d
\nWhat the scientists got for their money was five quiet, rather spooky geniuses, which is just what they ordered. Cirocco doubted that they had bargained for the incestuous homosexuality, but felt they should have expected it, just as surely as the high I.Q. They were all clones of their mother\u2014 the daughter of a third-generation Japanese-American and a Filipino. Susan Polo won the Nobel prize in physics and died young.
\nCirocco looked at August as the woman studied a photo on the chart table. She was exactly like her famous mother as a young woman: small, with jet-black hair and a trim figure, and dark, expressionless eyes. Cirocco had never thought Oriental faces were as similar as many Caucasians found them to be, but April and August\u2019s faces gave nothing away. Their skin was the color of coffee with lots of cream, but in the red light of the Science Module August looked almost black.
\nOnly two of the siblings are on the space ship and feature in the sex scenes, though.
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Ah yes, that’s exactly right. I was a big Varley fan off of Steel Beach, at one point the most important book in my life
I still think of his sex-changes-as-haircuts
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