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Genesis
by Brendan Reichs
We’re back with Min Wilder, her bff Tack, the boy who shot her Noah, then the power team Ethan and Sarah, among others who are stuck in a virtual reality version of their town. They are just lines of data, in phase two of the project. Every time they die they regenerate randomly at a new location. The big questions are how do they get to stage three, how many times can you regenerate, and what impact does shooting other people have on you.
I found myself thankful that they had to keep reminding themselves that they were only lines of code, because I kept forgetting, the simulated town is so real to them it makes it real to the reader, making you forget that what they feel is real to them but not really real, not outside the programme.
When I stepped away from the book, out of the digital world created for Min and her friends I realised something. This book is really topical. Not just because we are destroying the planet, and it’s the only one we have, or not because Artificial intelligence really amazing, and revolutionary, but because the story focusses on a group of high school kids, many of whom are who are running around their simulated world shooting each other, without a care or thought for what they are doing. Even when they realise you might not have unlimited lives, it doesn’t stop. This is really the part of the story that’s almost secondary although it’s the main course of action. Teenagers with guns are committing murder, suicide and occasionally voluntary murder. Yes they’re not ‘real’ they exist only in the computer programme, making it feel less real, less of an issue; but its there. I really like the book, and I would recommend it to anyone who asked ( or didn’t) but I think it’ll be interesting to see how its received by the wider audience, or if it received the option to be made into a tv show. Im all for that by the way! With the current media focus on 13 reasons why it makes me think, are we moving (backwards?) into an era where stories like this will be championed for being different, daring and brilliant, or will they be relegated to the banned books pile?
I found myself thankful that they had to keep reminding themselves that they were only lines of code, because I kept forgetting, the simulated town is so real to them it makes it real to the reader, making you forget that what they feel is real to them but not really real, not outside the programme.
When I stepped away from the book, out of the digital world created for Min and her friends I realised something. This book is really topical. Not just because we are destroying the planet, and it’s the only one we have, or not because Artificial intelligence really amazing, and revolutionary, but because the story focusses on a group of high school kids, many of whom are who are running around their simulated world shooting each other, without a care or thought for what they are doing. Even when they realise you might not have unlimited lives, it doesn’t stop. This is really the part of the story that’s almost secondary although it’s the main course of action. Teenagers with guns are committing murder, suicide and occasionally voluntary murder. Yes they’re not ‘real’ they exist only in the computer programme, making it feel less real, less of an issue; but its there. I really like the book, and I would recommend it to anyone who asked ( or didn’t) but I think it’ll be interesting to see how its received by the wider audience, or if it received the option to be made into a tv show. Im all for that by the way! With the current media focus on 13 reasons why it makes me think, are we moving (backwards?) into an era where stories like this will be championed for being different, daring and brilliant, or will they be relegated to the banned books pile?