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          Genesis (novel)

          2006 novel by Bernard Beckett

          This article is about the 2006 novel. For other uses, see Genesis (disambiguation).

          Genesis (2006) is a philosophical science fiction novel by New Zealand author Bernard Beckett.

          It won the 2007 Esther Glen Award for children's literature, and the 2007 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.[1] As of 2008 it has been published in 22 countries.

          Born in rural New Zealand, the fifth child of seven, he moved to Wellington to complete a degree in economics, then trained to become a high school teacher.

          Genesis looks at questions such as the origins of life (hence Genesis), ideas about human consciousness, and the nature of a soul which separates humans from other animals or machines.[2]

          Genesis also has been nominated for the 2018 Inaugural Daniel Lim award for best philosophical novel.

          Plot summary

          The entirety of the novel consists of Anaximander, a new candidate for The academy, participating in a gruelling auditory entrance exam. The academy consists of the most elite class in society and plays an influential role in the lives of al