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1. The Turing Test, by Chris Beckett, wins the Edge Hill Short Story Prize

(Science fiction books)

... Turing Test refers to Alan Turing’s proposal in 1950 for an approach to testing a machine’s capacity to think, an issue close to the heart of another Beckett, Bernard Beckett, in his remarkable novel Genesis ...

Created on 07 July 2009

2. Gray Apocalypse, by James Murdoch

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... theories, alien or otherwise, simply ain’t mine. At least on the page (if they share screen time with Gillian Anderson, I’m all for them). Bernard Beckett in his excellent novel Genesis sums up the ...

Created on 12 May 2009

3. Genesis, by Bernard Beckett

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More successfully than any other novel I've read recently, Bernard Beckett's Genesis epitomises the investigative ideal of science fiction. By any standards it's a short novel and at 150 pages is perhaps ...

Created on 21 April 2009

4. Genesis, aliens, Inkheart and the website

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... that matter). Imagine what would happen if they read the Bible!!! A review of Bernard Beckett's Genesis is forthcoming however - this is a gem of a novel, science fiction at its very best. And I'm ...

Created on 19 April 2009

5. Bernard Beckett’s Genesis

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This one sounds intriguing: Bernard Beckett’s Genesis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, due in April). From the publisher: Set in a post-apocalyptic future that's somehow eerily familiar, Genesis ignited ...

Created on 18 February 2009