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Violence
Some
Deaths at the hands of manifested fears; some action sequences; underwater tension throughout
Language
Some
Moderate adult language; Crichton's accessible technical prose
Sexual Content
Barely any
No significant sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The psychological horror of something that reads your worst fears and makes them real; Crichton's most psychologically interesting novel
What this book is about
A team of scientists is sent to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to investigate an alien spacecraft discovered on the seafloor—and finds a perfect golden sphere at its center. Crichton's psychological sci-fi thriller takes a sharp turn when the sphere begins manifesting whatever its investigators fear most.
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