Genesis (2009) (edit title/settings)

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• Anax: Main Character
• Pericles: Anax's Tutor
• Adam Forde: Main Character
• Art: Artificial Intelligence Robot
• Eve: The girl Adam saved.
• Joseph: Adam's soldier colleague and friend. Questions whether plague is still a threat and the Republic's harsh isolation doctrine.
• Philosopher William: Add a description of this character.

Quotes edit see section history

• “Change is decay.”

  Anax

• “I'm programmed to find myself attractive.""I thought you were self programming.""It was a wise choice, don't you think?"”

  Art first, then Adam, then Art

• “"I think you'll be surprised how annoying I can become. Why don't you want to talk to me?""You know.""It's a prejudice you have, isn't it? Your prejudice against Artificial Intelligence.""There's no such thing," Adam responds, angry at being lured vack into the conversation, but unable to help himself, "It's a contradiction in terms."”

  Art, then Adam, then Art, then Adam

• “"If I were a woman, you wouldn't object to talking to me.""If you were a woman with a face like that, I'd want a drink first. Can you do that? Can you get me a drink?"”

  Art then Adam

• “"I don't think they'd approve of me being programmed by a drunk."”

  Art

• “You cannot win by doing nothing”

  Art

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• The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate, and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

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• History has shown us the futility of the conspiracy theory. Complexity gives rise to error, and in error we grow our prejudice.

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• Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

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• This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.

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• Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

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• Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved.

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• This is our instinct: to see the other as an extension of ourselves. When the cat purrs, we believe it is happy in the way we are happy. When there is a sudden noise and the cat runs away, we believe we can understand its fear.

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• For a society to function successfully perhaps there needs to be a level of empathy that cannot be corrupted.

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• Plato identified what he called the five great threats to order: Impurity of Breeding, Impurity of Thought, Indulgence of the Individual, Commerce, and The Outsider.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• The Republic

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Bernard Beckett (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Amazon.com's Best Books (November 2009: Editors' Picks, #49)
• New Zealand Post Children's Book Award (2007: Young Adult Fiction, #1)

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• Dewey: 823.92

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Australia & New Zealand
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction

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