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Description edit
"To be, or not to be, the woman I was engineered to be?" That's the question third-generation clone Kai-Lee Fox can't help asking herself. And it's all Ella Fitzgerald's fault. For more than four hundred years, all aboard the star cruiser Janus has been sweetness and light. Thanks to... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Kai-Lee Fox: Main character, a historian, first to rebel
- Eran Symons: Kai-Lee's best friend, a physicist
- Luana: Kai-Lee's other best friend, a southerner and painter, slightly on the scattered side
- Jordi: An agronomist and fellow rebel
- Lexi: Jordi's fellow agronomist and significant other
- Maya: The gynedroid charged with raising (and indoctrinating) each iteration of Kai-Lee Fox and Eran Symons
- Rune Gaspar: The Director of Security and member of the Council
- Enid Huw: Chief psychiatrist and member of the Council
- Kiril Garan: First Councilor, head of the Quingenti
- Ke-Ling Yan: Chief geneticist and member of the Council
Quotes edit
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“Suppose, for the sake of argument, man isn't the highest form of life in the universe. We assume we are, we act like we are, but what if we're not? What if there's something ... bigger? What if it's been communicating with us? .... And what if it's on our side?”
Organizations edit
- Quingenti Colony: The 500 individuals aboard the Janus, heading for a new world.
- Global Assembly: Earth's governing body, which refused to legalize cloning.
First Sentence edit
The blue-white smudge wheeled in out of nowhere—a quick, capricious galaxy so insignificant only God knew its name.
Glossary edit
- replicant: An individual created through cloning.
- Alpha or Prime: The first generation of any replicant. The original DNA source.
- Quingenti: The 500 people aboard the Janus, who left earth when the Global Assembly refused to let them replicate. Also known as the Colony.
- Known Span: The 120-year mortality threshold no human being crosses.
- The Prime Tenet: The "constitution" of the Quingenti Colony.
Themes & Symbolism edit
- Meaning of Life: What is life? A beating heart? The genome? Continued consciousness?
- The Value of Each Individual Life: What happens to history if an individual life is extended indefinitely?
- Immortality: Describe this theme.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Kathy DiSanto
Country: United States
Publication Date: December 2012
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: Add the page count.
Publisher: Kathy DiSanto
Country: United States
Publication Date: December 2012
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: Add the page count.
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