Axiom (Paperback)
Xenith
Sold by AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
AbeBooks Seller since June 22, 2007
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Add to basketSold by AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
AbeBooks Seller since June 22, 2007
Condition: New
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketPaperback. When Dana West accepts access to an experimental decision-based simulation, he expects ambiguity-but not permanence. Inside AXIOM, there are no levels, no rewards, and no visible measures of success. Choices cannot be undone. Consequences do not announce themselves. The system offers no guidance on what is right-only proof that something has changed.As players struggle to understand how morality is measured, the environment responds quietly. Districts thin out. Relationships shift. Absence becomes as meaningful as action. While others argue, exploit, or refuse to choose, Dana hesitates-burdened by the belief that even choosing the lesser harm still makes him responsible for the greater loss.AXIOM unfolds as a psychological drama where ethics are not tested through spectacle, but through accumulation. Guilt lingers without confirmation. Influence emerges without consent. The system never explains itself, forcing its participants to decide not what is correct-but what they are willing to carry.A haunting exploration of responsibility, moral paralysis, and consequence without absolution, AXIOM asks a single question and refuses to answer it for you: If no choice is clean, does refusing to choose make you innocent-or simply invisible? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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When Dana West accepts access to an experimental decision-based simulation, he expects ambiguity-but not permanence. Inside AXIOM, there are no levels, no rewards, and no visible measures of success. Choices cannot be undone. Consequences do not announce themselves. The system offers no guidance on what is right-only proof that something has changed.
As players struggle to understand how morality is measured, the environment responds quietly. Districts thin out. Relationships shift. Absence becomes as meaningful as action. While others argue, exploit, or refuse to choose, Dana hesitates-burdened by the belief that even choosing the lesser harm still makes him responsible for the greater loss.
AXIOM unfolds as a psychological drama where ethics are not tested through spectacle, but through accumulation. Guilt lingers without confirmation. Influence emerges without consent. The system never explains itself, forcing its participants to decide not what is correct-but what they are willing to carry.
A haunting exploration of responsibility, moral paralysis, and consequence without absolution, AXIOM asks a single question and refuses to answer it for you:
If no choice is clean, does refusing to choose make you innocent-or simply invisible?
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