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Violence
A lot
Significant combat violence and body horror in the Polity tradition; military science fiction with real casualties
Language
Some
Moderate language; technical and gritty military prose
Sexual Content
Barely any
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
Some
The existential weight of post-human warfare and its transformation of identity
What this book is about
Set in Neal Asher's Polity universe, War Bodies is a novella following Cormac in a post-conflict setting where the aftermath of AI and human warfare has left strange transformations behind. Asher's trademark blend of hard science fiction, brutal action, and post-human body horror is present throughout.
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