conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What could be a title for a story about with the genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: A title for this story could be 'Less Than Human'
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this story.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Less Than Human
  As if the sight of the Betta were not advertisement enough, vid panels on every street corner extolled the advantages of living there. No more tiny apartment crowded with junk, burbled the vid, as cinematographically superb shots of the Betta interior rolled past on the screens. Get rid of all those appliances. In the Betta, the world's first totally integrated living environment, everything is built-in. Streamlined rooms with robotic helpers and digitally controlled shopping, cooking, and cleaning will simplify your day. You can relax in one of the rooftop gardens or browse through the internal shopping mall if you get sick of ordering your groceries online. Buy your piece of comfort and security now, before interest rates rise!
  The late-afternoon sun beat down on four teenagers hurrying past the now-unused train station and through the deserted streets in the old town. The teenagers were students, by the look of their bright clothes and the phone implants glinting in their hair. They carried bulging supermarket plas-bags. They bustled past the grimy doorways, along the neat concrete paths and landscaped gardens surrounding the Betta, and entered the main building.
  They must have been residents at the Betta, because the elevator doors in the main lobby read their microchips, opened for them immediately, and took them up to the sixth floor. They whispered as they walked down the corridors, nudging one another uneasily past the closed doors that contained families eating meals, children doing homework, mothers scolding babies, dying grandmothers, and who knew what else, for Betta walls were soundproof; past a couple of cleanbots, like automated vacuum cleaners humming along the corridor walls; past the wall holos showing peaceful summer scenery, until they reached their apartment door. They tumbled in, and the door swished shut behind them.
  The other girl, tall and narrow-hipped, began to unpack groceries. Her green-checked trousers and white shirt were wrinkled and stained as though she didn't worry about appearances. "Tomoko, if you don't want to do it, go back." She called out to the other boy who was in the living room. "I didn't think we'd be able to get in here. How did you float the ID so the system listened to us, Dai?"
  The boy with the tattoos raised his hand solemnly. "Hey. Before we start—no matter what happens, we keep this secret, right?" The girls nodded, and Dai said, "Right."
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conversations.value: Give me two more paragraphs.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Masao breathed as calmly as always beside her, but she felt no peace. The cool, smooth walls seemed like a prison. Her chest felt tight, and she was sweating. Could the windows be opened? She'd never tried. Surely there would be emergency latches, in case of fire.
  She rolled out of the futon, taking care not to disturb Masao, and padded to the window. The glass was dimmed in preparation for morning glare, so she couldn't see anything outside except a few blurred lights.
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Close-up on Sam as he climbs onto the window ledge and stands there with his arms outstretched, balanced for one last moment before he falls. 
  Halley, commander of the deep space station Jocasta, is desperate. The distant Confederacy is not sending aid, but her station is blockaded by hostile creatures, communications and key systems are failing, rations are low, and tension between humans and aliens is at the flashpoint. Then a foreign trader is killed—apparently by an extinct monster. The murder is impossible and the clues make no sense. But Halley must now solve the mystery—before Jocasta erupts in an explosion of terror and death.
  Jocasta is awaiting the outcome of a historic neutrality vote to win freedom from the Confederacy. Then the vote's reluctant instigator, Commander Halley, vanishes when an engineering experiment with a captured jump drive leaves her trapped in Earth's past. But as she desperately tries to find a way back to her present, Halley uncovers a conspiracy that threatens history itself and could destroy the Confederacy. Her only hope to avert disaster is to make first contact with the enigmatic aliens who invented time travel—if she can survive long enough.
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