Wang's Carpets by Greg Egan

"Wang s Carpets" is a 1995 science fiction novelette by Greg Egan. It is about a group of cloned beings who discover an amazing life form on a planet orbiting Vega. Non-Spoiler Summary In A Nutshell: In a far future Earth the majority of citizens are software clones of humans who live in communities know as polises. One of these polises, Carter-Zimmermann, copies itself a thousand times and sends…