The Left Hand of Darkness
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Especially, there are interrogation drugs that are used on the main character.
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A character hunts and kills several small arctic mammals called pesthry (I think it is something like a fox or a mink). It is strictly for food and we don't actually read about the hunting in detail.
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A character tries to unsuccesfully manipulate a character into sleeping with them but this is as far as it goes
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CassiniKepler
A character is given drugs in multiple interrogations which make them increasingly ill, the actual interrogation sections are mostly skipped over
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Does someone fall to their death?
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However, there is a scary moment when a character falls into a bottomless crevasse. They are rescued.
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The main character is forcibly injected with a drug, but this is only briefly described.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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At the end of the book, the protagonist recuperates in a hospital.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Several characters are packed into a dark truck and kept in there for days, as they're transported across the country. In addition to darkness, the characters contend with cold, thirst, and terror. Two of the characters die from the ordeal. This is an extended and upsetting scene that seems to allude to transportation to concentration camps in N**i Germany.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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However, there is a heavy focus on rationing food in the latter half of the book, and a section where the food has run out and they don't eat for a few days. Although this is because of necessity instead of a disorder, it may be distressing for some readers.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Almost every character is neuter/agender. The protagonist, a man, has enormous difficulty not seeing everyone else as either a man or a woman, and the book uses he/him pronouns for everyone. Revolutionary for its time, unfortunately a bit dated now.
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Is there hate speech?
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Not so much slurs as xenophobic rhetoric. One of the characters is trying to whip up nationalistic sentiment, with the aim of going to war.
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So in Gethenian society, sibling marriages are not considered taboo. One of the main characters was married to his sibling and had a child with them. The sibling is now deceased, but that relationship is still very emotional and significant for the character, so it's talked about more than once. There is nothing to suggest the relationship was non-consensual or coercive.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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The ending is tragic but there is hope in it and good things do end up happening.
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tardigrade
There are some mild descriptions of bloody injuries, and a somewhat graphic description of the main character being covered in another person's blood for an extended period of time.
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Is there gun violence?
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A character is shot with a stun gun at a lethal setting.
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