Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

1 review

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").