2009, ISBN: 9781423381532

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MP3 CD, [EAN: 9781423381532], Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged, Brilliance Audio, Brilliance Audio, Book, [PU: Brilliance Audio], 2009-04-01, Brilliance Audio, Amazon Best of the Month, April 2009: If robots began to self-evolve, learning to feel and create as we do, what traits would set humans apart--and help us survive? Beckett isn't the first to dramatize this question, and his Genesis pays subtle homage to his predecessors (including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke , and Philip K. Dick). But his near-future tale feels unique, and oddly credible. As the young historian Anax endures an examination by the Academy--an order of philosopher-rulers as imagined in Plato's Republic--we're brought up quickly on a catastrophic backstory: accelerating climate change, dust storms, rising fear and fundamentalism, the Last War, and the rise of a new Plato, who builds an island republic and seals it behind a Great Sea Fence. Plagues decimate human populations outside, while the Republic's surveillance society (thick with shadows of Huxley, Atwood, and Moore) flourishes under the Orwellian motto "Forward towards the past"--until it falls to forces led by the young rebel Adam Forde. The Academy interrogates Anax on Adam's period of imprisonment with the most advanced android of his time, and we witness their vicious sparring on the virtues of men and machines, the nature of consciousness, and what gives any life worth. It may not sound gripping, but Genesis reads like a thriller to the last word, propelled by the power of ideas longing to be unleashed. --Mari Malcolm, 935948, Children's Books, 937688, Action & Adventure, 10968591011, Activities, Crafts & Games, 937326, Animals, 937494, Arts, Music & Photography, 938060, Biographies, 938318, Cars, Trains & Things that Go, 938838, Children's Cookbooks, 937690, Classics, 937766, Comics & Graphic Novels, 937572, Computers & Technology, 9120764011, Early Learning, 939028, Education & Reference, 937696, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths, 937778, Geography & Cultures, 1085484, Growing Up & Facts of Life, 937588, History, 937894, Holidays & Celebrations, 938866, Humour, 937686, Literature & Fiction, 937768, Mysteries & Detectives, 938944, Religions, 937764, Science Fiction & Fantasy, 938166, Science, Nature & How It Works, 938812, Sports & Outdoors, 927726, Subjects, 916520, Books, 959330, Science Fiction, 959332, Adventure, 959184, Alternate History, 959334, Anthologies, 959356, Graphic Novels, 959340, High Tech, 959342, History & Criticism, 959344, Series, 959354, Short Stories, 274726011, Space Opera, 957368, Science Fiction & Fantasy, 927726, Subjects, 916520, Books<

ISBN: 9781423381532

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Fourteen-year-old Anax thinks she knows her history. SheAAA1/2d better. SheAAA1/2s sat facing three Examiners and her grueling five-hour examination on the 2077 Great War has just begun. If she passes, sheAAA1/2ll be admitted into The Academy AAA1/2 the elite institution that runs her utopian society. But Anax is about to discover that for all her learning, the history sheAAA1/2s been taught isnAAA1/2t the whole story. And that The Academy isnAAA1/2t what she believes it to be. AnaxAAA1/2s examination leads us into a future where ancient AAA1/2 eternal AAA1/2 philosophical questions have dramatically collided with the march of technology, where just what it means to be human is up for debate, and where the concealed stain of an 'original sin' threatens the very existence of her brave new world. Hörbücher>Fremdsprachige Hörbücher>Englische Hörbücher>Kinder- & Jugendhörbücher>Romane & Erzählungen, Brilliance Audio<

ISBN: 9781423381532

Fourteen-year-old Anax thinks she knows her history. SheAAA1/2d better. SheAAA1/2s sat facing three Examiners and her grueling five-hour examination on the 2077 Great War has just begun. … Más…

Fourteen-year-old Anax thinks she knows her history. SheAAA1/2d better. SheAAA1/2s sat facing three Examiners and her grueling five-hour examination on the 2077 Great War has just begun. If she passes, sheAAA1/2ll be admitted into The Academy AAA1/2 the elite institution that runs her utopian society. But Anax is about to discover that for all her learning, the history sheAAA1/2s been taught isnAAA1/2t the whole story. And that The Academy isnAAA1/2t what she believes it to be. AnaxAAA1/2s Hörbuch Hörbücher>Fremdsprachige Hörbücher>Englische Hörbücher>Kinder- & Jugendhörbücher>Romane & Erzählungen, Brilliance Audio<

ISBN: 9781423381532

Fourteen-year-old Anax thinks she knows her history. SheAAA1/2d better. SheAAA1/2s sat facing three Examiners and her grueling five-hour examination on the 2077 Great War has just begun. … Más…

Fourteen-year-old Anax thinks she knows her history. SheAAA1/2d better. SheAAA1/2s sat facing three Examiners and her grueling five-hour examination on the 2077 Great War has just begun. If she passes, sheAAA1/2ll be admitted into The Academy AAA1/2 the elite institution that runs her utopian society. But Anax is about to discover that for all her learning, the history sheAAA1/2s been taught isnAAA1/2t the whole story. And that The Academy isnAAA1/2t what she believes it to be. AnaxAAA1/2s, Brilliance Audio<

ISBN: 9781423381532

Fourteen-year-old Anax thinks she knows her history. SheAAA1/2d better. SheAAA1/2s sat facing three Examiners and her grueling five-hour examination on the 2077 Great War has just begun. … Más…

Fourteen-year-old Anax thinks she knows her history. SheAAA1/2d better. SheAAA1/2s sat facing three Examiners and her grueling five-hour examination on the 2077 Great War has just begun. If she passes, sheAAA1/2ll be admitted into The Academy AAA1/2 the elite institution that runs her utopian society. But Anax is about to discover that for all her learning, the history sheAAA1/2s been taught isnAAA1/2t the whole story. And that The Academy isnAAA1/2t what she believes it to be. AnaxAAA1/2s, Brilliance Audio<