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Violence
Barely any
No significant violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Themes of the Fermi paradox, the Doomsday argument, and the desperate question of whether the future can be changed
What this book is about
The first Manifold novel (1999) follows Reid Malenfant, who receives a mathematical signal from the far future pointing to his own suicide, and his attempts to prevent the extinction event the signal implies. Dense, cosmological hard SF. For adults.
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