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GAME OF CLONES

Orphan Black co-creator Graeme Manson on his feminist sci-fi drama

WHEN I TRY TO TELL my friends about Orphan Black, I get excited and things come out garbled: “It’s about clones, but it’s also a mystery. The clones get sick, and there’s this race for a cure, but also a quest to find out where they come from and why—and there are these crazy pop-science researchers who modify their own bodies. The military might be

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