Two anthropologists marooned on an alien world navigate warring factions and a native race with innate teleportation abilities.
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Two anthropologists marooned on an alien world navigate warring factions and a native race with innate teleportation abilities.
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This second novel by multiple award-winner Vernor Vinge, from 1976, is a fast-paced adventure where galactic policies collide and different cultures clash as two scientists and their faith in technology are pitted against an elusive race of telekinetic beings.
Marooned on a distant world and slowly dying of food poisoning, two anthropologists are caught between warring alien factions engaged in a battle that will affect the future of the world's inhabitants and their deadly telekinetic powers...
What's Inside
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Sexual content
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Mild attraction and observations on physical desirability; no explicit scenes
Violence & gore
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Faction warfare, capture, and lethal telekinetic attacks; not highly graphic
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Central telekinetic teleportation powers treated as constrained natural magic
Occult / demonology
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No real-world occult content present
Political content
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Cultural clash, galactic policy, and dated gender-power dynamics recur
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Social scorn of the disabled; captivity, poisoning, and wartime cruelty
Other
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