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Violence
Some
The protagonist is threatened and must escape; some collectivist violence
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
A romantic relationship; nothing explicit
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Strongly ideological content presenting individualism as a supreme value
What this book is about
Equality 7-2521 lives in a future where individuality has been abolished and the very word 'I' has been replaced with 'we.' When he rediscovers a tunnel from the Unmentionable Times and falls in love, his heretical thoughts lead to escape and a fierce manifesto for the individual. Rand's slim, passionate novella is an Objectivist fable in the form of dystopian science fiction—short, intense, and explicitly ideological.
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Dystopian collectivism and its horrors
Strongly ideological (Objectivist) content
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