The Goodness Algorithm
Description
Humankind brought the Earth to the brink of destruction.
It's 2144, and life has changed for the better. Or has it?
Based on 20th-century longitudinal research, the ruling Council introduced the Goodness Algorithm to remove the five per cent of humans who may cause societal problems by puberty.
Julia is the Chief Genetic Scientist of Good Hope. She notices a change in the behaviour and intelligence of children. They are evolving rapidly.
The Quality Control Department appears to have terminated Chinta Katone as an imperfect human. It transpires someone has abducted her under baffling and sinister circumstances.
Julia's son Ilya breaks the Goodness Algorithm during his test, and her theory on accelerating evolution is confirmed. Departments want to study Ilya ? he becomes a person of interest.
On an island paradise, Nirvana, the ruling elite compete for status, play God with expendable lives and hoard enormous wealth. But Ilya's talent captures the attention of the Council and their survival programming results in unpredictable actions.
When Ilya vanishes, his disappearance causes a chain of events that will change the world's belief systems and rewrite history.
What would you do 'for a better world'?
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Persons
Regina de Wolf-Ngarimu (Ngati Porou, Te Whanau-a-Apanui, Ngai Tahu, Ngati Mutunga) is a Maori author and poet from the East Coast who loves kaimoana ? penname R. de Wolf. She's published four novels and two poetry collections since 2020; Guardians of the Ancestors with Pegasus Elliot McKenzie, Book One of the six-part Pacific Fiction Adventure Spirit Voyager Series; Book Two, The Future Weavers; Book Three, Brothers in Whalesong; dystopian novel The Goodness Algorithm; Poetry In a Pear Tree and Poetry In a Pohutukawa. Three short stories, Crushed Violet, Whale Brothers and The Hollow Mother, were published in the Kaituhi Rawhiti anthologies. In 2022 she co-edited and published Kaituhi Rawhiti Two: Weaving of Words with the Tairawhiti Writers Hub, featuring over 40 writers connected to te Tairawhiti. Active in the writing community, Regina encourages rangatahi (youth) to kaumatua (seniors) to find their voice, preserve knowledge and publish, whether it's commercial or private work.
