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Violence
Some
Mass extinction; violence; political betrayal
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Themes of survival, politics under pressure, and what humanity becomes over millennia
What this book is about
Stephenson's 2015 hard SF novel begins when the moon suddenly fragments. The first two-thirds follow humanity's desperate attempt to build an orbital ark; the final third jumps 5,000 years to show the civilization that emerged from seven female survivors. For older teens and adults.
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Mass extinction events
Political violence
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