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Violence
Some
Court violence; assassination; war
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Some
Sexual content; a concubine's story
Substance Use
None
Drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of intervention, progress, and who gets to decide a civilization's fate
What this book is about
Banks's 1998 Culture novel set in a pre-technological world that barely hints at the Culture. Features court intrigue, violence, and some sexual content. For adults.
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