There was an early SF story titled _The Tissue Culture King_. A biologist becomes important in an African kingdom when he relieves the King of some unpleasant burdens by using a small tissue sample to make hundreds of living King cultures. Not actual Kings, just clumps of tissue. These could symbolically substitute for the King for some functions.
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Date: 2007-10-28 02:30 pm (UTC)There was an early SF story titled _The Tissue Culture King_. A biologist becomes important in an African kingdom when he relieves the King of some unpleasant burdens by using a small tissue sample to make hundreds of living King cultures. Not actual Kings, just clumps of tissue. These could symbolically substitute for the King for some functions.