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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Yod, Y-S, Shira entitled He, She and It.
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conversations.value: He, She and It: The main story of He, She and It is situated in North America in the near future of the year 2059.\nAt that time, the economic and political power is held by few multis—huge multi-national enterprises with their own social hierarchy that have produced an affluent society.\nThe main part of the population, however, lives in the glop outside of the multis' enclaves within an environment that has mainly been destroyed.\nHere, the life is dominated by poverty, gangs and the law of the stronger man.\nAn exception from this are the so-called free towns that are able to sell their technologies to the multis but remain autonomous.\nCommunication is handled via a network which allows the participants to project themselves into Cyberspace.\nWhen the protagonist Shira loses custody of her son Ari to her ex-husband Josh, she returns from her multi Yakamura-Stichen (Y-S) to her hometown Tikva (Hope in Hebrew) - a Jewish freetown.\nThere, she starts working on the socialization of the cyborg Yod (the tenth letter in Hebrew and a symbol for God in Kabbalah), who has been created illegally by Avram to protect the city.\nYod is the tenth cyborg (a robot with human appearance and programmed human characteristics) in a row of previously failed experiments whose programming has partially been completed by Malkah, Shira's grandmother.\nWhile Shira and Yod build up a (sexual) relationship, Shira's childhood sweetheart Gadi, Avram's son, also comes back to Tikva.\nGadi returns due to his banishment for sleeping with a young girl.\nWhen Malkah is working on a chimaera (security software) to protect the city from online attack, she is attacked by Y-S.\nYod, however, is able to prevent the attack.\nEventually, Y-S invites Shira to a new hearing concerning the custody of her son.\nShira is accompanied by Yod, her mother Riva, and Nili, a biotechnologically enhanced woman from a nuclear-devastated Palestine, when the situation escalates.\nThe Y-S delegation and Riva die in the fight.\nThereupon Shira, Malkah and Yod decide to infiltrate the Y-S network base.\nThey manage to get hold of personnel files revealing a conspiracy against Shira and Tikva.\nAs next step, Shira and Yod are accompanied by Nili and Gadi into the Glop.\nHere, they get in contact with an organized underground group in which they discover Riva still alive and participating in resistance activities.\nFrom the Glop they travel into the Y-S enclave in Nebraska to kidnap Ari.\nThere, Josh is killed by Yod.\nBack to Tikva, Shira's family spends some quiet time until Y-S invites them to a further meeting in the net.\nY-S demands that Yod be handed over, for Y-S to acquire its technology.\nAvram agrees to the deal with the hope of creating another cyborg.\nSo, Yod agrees to destroy him/itself when sent to the enclave.\nHowever, Yod made sure that his own explosion would cause a synchronous explosion in Avram's lab.\nAs Avram dies in this accident and all his notes are destroyed the creation of a further cyborg becomes impossible.\nFinally, Malkah leaves Tikva with Nili to visit to a secret town in post-nuclear holocaust Israel and to profit from the possible biotechnological enhancements.\nShira is integrated into Tikva's society further.\nWhen she discovers copies of the notes concerning Yod, she initially plans on recreating Yod; ultimately she respects Yod's wishes and destroys them.\nThe main plot is interwoven with a story Malkah tells Yod that deals with Rabbi Judah Loew who Malkah depicts as her ancestor living in the ghetto of Prague around 1600.\nTo protect the Jewish community from the Christian mob, Loew uses the knowledge of Kabbalah to create the golem Joseph from clay.\nHis granddaughter Chava, a very educated woman, teaches Joseph to read and to write.\nJoseph successfully protects the ghetto and begins to think of himself as human and makes a plea for his right to a human existence.\nHowever, when the pogrom climate calms down, Loew returns Joseph to clay.\nThe two stories are mutually illuminating, both asking what it means to be human both from the perspective of the man-made life and that of those who love the artificial lives.
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conversations.value: Provide the first four paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: He, She and It
  I have found the newsletters and meetings of the Artificial Intelligence group of the Boston Computer Society stimulating. Lest anybody think that the experiences in the Net and Base in the novel are fantastic make-believe, be aware that even now companies are working on sensor nets that permit a person to "walk into" data and experience it as real objects in imaginary space. As for the destruction of the ozone layer and the results of global warming, your local library surely has this information, as mine did.
  As always with the novels of mine I most enjoy writing, this has been a strange and instructive journey.
  Connie Ramos is labeled insane and is committed to a mental institution, but the truth is that Connie is overwhelmingly and heroically sane and tuned in to the future. She is able to communicate with the year 2137 where two ways of life—one beautiful and one horrific—are competing. In Connie's struggle to prevent a brain control operation, we find the timeless battle between good and evil, between beauty and terror.
  A passionate, powerfully imagined novel about young rebels driven underground by a tyrannical society. They call themselves the Indians. Meet Shawn, a rock music celebrity; Corey, part Indian, whose heritage gave the movement its name; Billy, a brilliant young scientist; and Joanna, a runaway "army brat" who survives on pot and sex. Through the experiences of these four young revolutionaries, this macabre and moving adventure brings an all-too-possible future into shattering focus.
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conversations.value: Provide another paragraph.
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conversations.value: Dinah, Willie, and Susan are artists who live year-round in a small resort town on Cape Cod. They have long outlived the scandal associated with their ten-year-old menage-à-trois. Then one summer, the balance shifts, and the trio must face the changes brought by their beautiful visitors.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Strange.
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conversations.value: Dinah, Willie, and Susan are artists who live year-round in a small resort town on Cape Cod. They have long outlived the scandal associated with their ten-year-old menage-à-trois. Strange as it looks on the outside, each person has needs it takes the other two to satisfy. Then one summer, the balance shifts, and the trio must face the changes brought by their beautiful visitors.
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conversations.value: Intelligent, sensual Miriam Berg trades her doctorate for a marriage and security, only to find herself hungry for a life of her own—but terrified of losing her husband. Shy, frightened Beth ran away from the very life Miriam seeks—to a new world and a different kind of love. Set against the early days of the feminist movement, this is the story of two women and the choices they must make.
  Leslie has lost her lover, Valerie, to another woman, and she is questioning her entire life. She becomes involved in a strange erotic triangle with idealistic young Honor and Bernie, a homosexual street hustler trying to settle down. Leslie and Bernie both want Honor, but Honor just wants a little spice in her life.
  Going to college when the first seeds of sexual freedom are sown, wry, independent Jill thrives in the new free-spirited world of social and sexual awakening, while her beautiful cousin Donna desperately searches for a man to save her from herself. As their futures assume contrary paths, Jill and Donna realize that they may be separated, but they'll never be truly divided from one another.
  The University said that it would bring new life to the blighted neighborhood. And there was nothing people like Anna, the casualty of a broken marriage, or Rowley, the blue-eyed soul singer, could do as the walls began to crack. They watched their friends and neighbors disappear in the dust of the wrecking ball. All they could do was hope for something better, or maybe even love.