Genesis

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The work Genesis represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Culver-Union Township Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Genesis

Statement of responsibility

Bernard Beckett

Creator

• trueBeckett, Bernard, 1968-
• Beckett, Bernard, 1967-

Subject

• trueControl (Psychology)
• Dissertations, Academic -- Fiction
• trueDystopian fiction
• trueDystopias
• Epidemics -- Fiction
• Historians -- Fiction
• trueHuman evolution -- Philosophy
• trueHumankind (Metaphysics)
• Linköping studies in science and technology, Dissertations -- Fiction
• trueNear future
• trueNew Zealand
• trueNew Zealand fiction
• trueBrainwashing
• truePost-apocalypse
• trueScience fiction
• Science fiction
• Science fiction
• trueTeenagers -- New Zealand
• trueTotalitarianism

Genre

• trueNew Zealand fiction
• trueScience fiction
• trueDystopian fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Anaximander, a student historian applying for entrance to the Academy, the institution that governs the Republic, a closed and isolated island society established late in the twenty-first century as a refuge from worldwide plague, prepares a thesis on Adam Forde, a rebel who on one occasion refused to shoot a young woman approaching the island in a boat, and unwittingly reveals her own tendencies for unconventional thought

Storyline

• trueAction-packed

Award

• LIANZA Children's Book Awards, Esther Glen Award, 2007.
• New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Young Adult Fiction Award, 2007.
• Storylines (New Zealand) Notable Book

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 823/.92
• [Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Adult

Intended audience source

Follett Library Resources

LC call number

PR9639.4.B434

LC item number

G46 2009

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adolescent