Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

5 reviews

scmiller's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Violence, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Addiction, Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Drug abuse, and Grief

arayo's review

challenging emotional reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Child abuse

Minor: Colonisation, Murder, Drug abuse, Addiction, Gun violence, and Forced institutionalization

amsswim's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

So I started this book thinking the short story the movie Arrival was based on was in this book, turns out it is in a different book lol. THat being said I still love all science fiction and these short stories were so good. If you're a fan of science fiction that touches on new tech in our modern world and the moral implications, this is for you. 

My favorite stories were: The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, Exhalation, The Lifecycle of Software Objects, and The Truth of Fact the Truth of Feeling. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Cursing, Death, Animal death, Car accident, Child abuse, and Misogyny

cassimiranda's review against another edition

challenging reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

~The past has left its traces on the world, and we only have to know how to read them.~

This collection of short stories explores intelligence, agency, and self-determination. Each story explores these questions in a unique hard science fiction settings. The worlds are interesting and well-developed and the themes are intriguing. My favorite story, The Great Silence, explores human’s inability to recognize intelligent, if dissimilar, communication from close to home. While thought-provoking and imaginative, the prose style is distancing. This made it difficult to connect with the characters, and reduced my overall enjoyment. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Genocide, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Animal death, Abandonment, and Addiction

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Colonisation, Addiction, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, Classism, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Violence, Sexism, Ableism, Child abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Xenophobia, and Misogyny

Extinction and apocalyptic events in multiple stories. Dissection, though with visuals of machinery rather than flesh ("Exhalation"). Mentions of bestiality, discussion of sentient sex dolls, cruelty to and dehumanization of AIs/robots, emotional infidelity ("The Lifecycle of Software Objects"). Mentions of natural disasters, manipulation/extortion ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom").