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Genocidal Organ Paperback – Aug. 21 2012

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Who can win in a war of all against all?

The war on terror exploded, literally, the day Sarajevo was destroyed by a homemade nuclear device. The leading democracies transformed into total surveillance states, and the developing world has drowned under a wave of genocides. The mysterious American John Paul seems to be behind the collapse of the world system, and it’s up to intelligence agent Clavis Shepherd to track John Paul across the wreckage of civilizations, and to find the true heart of darkness—a genocidal organ.

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272 pages
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English
Publisher

Haikasoru
Publication date

Aug. 21 2012
Dimensions

13.34 x 2.29 x 20.32 cm
ISBN-10

1421542722
ISBN-13

978-1421542720
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Keikaku (Project) Itoh was born in Tokyo in 1974. He graduated from Musashino Art University. In 2007, he debuted with Gyakusatsu Kikan (Genocidal Organ) and took first prize in the "Best SF of 2007" in SF Magazine. He is also the author of Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots, a Japanese-language novel based on the popular video game series. After a long battle with cancer, Itoh passed away in March 2009. Itoh wrote Harmony, a Japan SF and Seiun Award-winning novel in the same setting as Genocidal Organ, while in the hospital receiving treatment for the disease.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Haikasoru (Aug. 21 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1421542722
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1421542720
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 277 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.34 x 2.29 x 20.32 cm

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rosesinbud

Ever wonder why so many countries experience civil war these days?

Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on November 5, 2020

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Genocidal Organ is a good tale of two men; one who determines what can provoke people to turn on each other and massacre each other in a place where previously they lived in harmony, and one who is an agent seeking to assassinate the other and end the civil wars around the globe. That first man names this element at the root of genocide "the genocidal organ. The question is, why does he use this? Why does he provoke human disaster so wantonly? The men assigned the mission to destroy this man behind world genocide must first understand him in order to catch him. Of course, there is also a special woman between the master of genocide and the agent group's mission leader. Overall whether you find the idea of a genocidal organ in humanity plausible or not, you will find this an interesting tale.

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Sally Nguyen

amazing

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on December 20, 2017

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From recent memory there has yet to be a book that I've read that tackles so many issues of morality and human folly in one sitting. Set in the future, this dystopian scifi really had me hooked from the very start.

Amazon Kunde

It's a masterpiece

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on January 6, 2016

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I won't write much, because I tend to spoiler whole stories from time to time, so I will only say this much. It was awesome and wish to read more books like this one. Especially the characters intrigued me.
For example the only important female aside from the main characters mother, is a women (and I have many problems with female characters in most books) is a character who is very intelligent and actually proves it.
Let's take an example. Currently 50 shades of gray (a very crude comparison, I know) is a well....very popular book. The main character, I don't remember her name, is said to be very intelligent. Her prove is her college degree she has earned. But through the whole series she doesn't show that she even has a little speck of intelligence. Comparing to Lucia Sokrova, she is almost pitiful. As I already said, Lucia is one of a few characters (female) that shows actual intelligence, which I think is something very outstanding and makes her unique among female characters in many books. Admittedly I have mostly read books from the teenager genre, but not even one showed character. They acted more like mindless drones.

Another thing that intrigued me about this book was the fact that I had no idea what would happen next. Genocidal organ has surprised me so many times and in my opinion it is a true master piece which deserves much more attention outside of japan.
However you certainly won't regret buying this book, If like to see past the facades and past the petty romances that seem to follow us everywhere.
It's a thoughtful masterpiece

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Lori Selke

A meaty and enjoyable science fiction novel.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 14, 2013

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Simply put, I wish more contemporary science fiction was this smart and thoughtful. "Genocidal Organ" follows the adventures of a Special Forces soldier as he hunts down the person apparently responsible for spreading genocide around the world -- via a subtle linguistic pattern he embeds in a country's speeches, advertisements and other media. Humanity's capacity for killing each other over perceived ethnic and national divisions is conceived metaphorically as the organ of the title, just another part of our minds and bodies, able to be manipulated by the proper stimuli. Author Project Itoh imagines a very grim but not all that implausible near-future, and he stocks the book with plenty of philosophical musings -- but musings that have real, day-to-day implications as well as casting light on larger issues of how our world is ordered and maintained. The book isn't without flaws, but they are minor and hardly dealbreakers. The novel is highly readable with a gripping narrative and a fascinating villain. The narrator, too, is refreshingly reflective and un-macho. Very enjoyable, with lots of meat on the bone. You don't really think about how rare this combination is these days until you pick up a book like this one, making the also-rans feel like the fluff they really are.

15 people found this helpful

Daneel Law

Could have been great, but major flaws ruined it.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 30, 2016

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I had high hopes for this book with the opening pages, but 1/2 way through I decided to put it down for good. There are a few reasons I could not continue. 1) There numerous plot developments, usually minor ones, that seem completely implausible or where the author glosses over what would be obvious and important factors that would influence the plausibility of the plot. I won't give examples - that would be a spoiler. But as an unrelated scenario, imagine you have a world class runner who is being chased by clumsy group of bad guys, and they catch him. Wait. What? Or someone sneaks into the White House by going through a side door. Wait. What? Just like that. These holes, that seem completely inconsistent with the characters and plot to that point go completely unexplained and glossed over. In summary, certain things happen to easily when they shouldn't. Characters get away with ridiculous transgressions that are not consistent with the rest of the story. Maybe the author was just too lazy to construct a more complex narrative. 2) I could deal with #1, but this next one just killed the book for me. The author interrupts the flow of the story on numerous occasions to wax philosophical, or to have two characters (or one) spend pages and pages debating over academic subjects that are perhaps tangentially related to the storyline, yet seem simply the author's desire to insert didactic ramblings about dry topics. It's as if he has peppered the book with non-fictional essays he wrote while doing graduate work in the humanities. I had to skip over these sections because they interrupted the flow of the story and became intolerably boring. In the end, I think this could have been a great book, but these diversions into snore-worthy intellectual rambling killed it for me.

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