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Violence
Some
Space combat; violence; deaths
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of war, memory, and the cost of ancient weapons in a galaxy full of dying civilizations
What this book is about
Reynolds' 2016 novella follows Merlin, a long-lived hunter of the Waymakers' ancient weapons, who investigates a military conflict and the mind of a centuries-old battlefield AI. A standalone in the Merlin sequence. For older teens and adults.
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