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   It's the year 2075. A remote island Republic has emerged from an аросalyptic, plague-ridden past. Its citizens are safe but not free. They live in complete isolation from the outside world. Approaching planes are gunned down, refugees shot on sight. Until one man rescues a girl from the sea....
   Outstanding and original, Bernard Beckett's dramatic narrative comes to a stunning close that will leave you reeling. This perfect combination of thrilling page-turner and provocative novel of ideas demands to be read again and again.
GENESIS
FIRST HOUR
FIRST BREAK
SECOND HOUR
SECOND BREAK
THIRD HOUR
THIRD BREAK
FINAL HOUR
GENESIS
   Is the soul more than the hum of its parts
Douglas Hofstadter, The Mind's I
 
FIRST HOUR
   Anax moved down the long corridor. The only sound was the gentle hiss of the air filter overhead. The lights were down low, as demanded by the new regulations. She remembered brighter days, but never spoke of them. It was one of the Great Mistakes, thinking of brightness as a quality of the past.
   Anax reached the end of the corridor and turned left. She checked the time. They would be watching her approach, or so it was rumored. The door slid open, quiet and smooth, like everything in  The Academy zone.
   "Anaximander?"
   Anax nodded.
   The panel was made up of three Examiners, just as the regulations had promised. It was a great relief. Details of the examination were kept secret, and among the candidates rumors swirled. "Imagination is the bastard child of time and ignorance," her tutor Pericles liked to say, always adding "not that I have anything against bastards."
   Anax loved her tutor. She would not let him down. The door closed behind her.
   The Examiners sat behind a high desk, the top a dark slab of polished timber.
   "Make yourself comfortable." The Examiner in the middle spoke. He was the largest of the three, as tall and broad as any Anax had ever seen. By comparison the other two looked old and weak, but she felt their eyes upon her, keen and sharp. Today she would assume nothing. The space before them was clear. Anax knew the interview was being recorded.
 
   EXAMINER: Four hours have been allotted for your examination. You may seek clarification, should you have trouble understanding any of our questions, but the need to do this will be taken into consideration when the final judgment is made. Do you understand this?
   ANAXIMANDER: Yes.
   EXAMINER: Is there anything you would like to ask, before we beg ............

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