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Violence
None
No violence
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief sexual references
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Profound philosophical horror about the nature of existence and simulation
What this book is about
Egan's 1994 hard SF novel explores the philosophical and physical consequences of being a digital copy of a human consciousness. Paul Durham creates a simulated universe that will outlast the real one. The hardest possible SF. For older teens and adults.
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Philosophical horror
Identity questions
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