Radio Silence
Book • 2015 • Sci-Fi
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The book opens with an attempted rape. The protagonist’s mention having overheard a woman screaming for help and then hearing men making lewd comments and cheering.
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Does a cat die?
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Presumably, yes. The protagonists mention that their neighbor’s cats were still in the neighbor’s house when they left, scratching at the door. It’s presumed that they would eventually starve to death because no one was there to let them out
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The book opens with an attempted rape. The protagonist’s mention having overheard a woman screaming for help and then hearing men making lewd comments and cheering.
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Does someone vomit?
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A teenager is mentioned to be throwing up after drinking too much
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Is rape mentioned?
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The book opens with an attempted rape. The protagonist’s mention having overheard a woman screaming for help and then hearing men making lewd comments and cheering.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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The aggressors in the beginning of the book refer to the protagonist as a “provision”
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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No, but at the start of the book, the only food the main characters have access to is peanuts. This is not the case for most of the book though
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Does an LGBT person die?
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The first scene in the book opens with John, who is gay, having just been knocked unconscious by a rock to the head. He later recovers.
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Is there hate speech?
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An antagonist towards the end of the book repeatedly uses anti-Asian slurs. As far as hate crimes, there is mention of the burning of a mosque and of a Russian restaurant
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone break a bone?
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The protagonist breaks someone's nose.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Does a car crash?
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There is mention that the absence of traffic signals after the apocalyptic event has led to car accidents.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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There is a cataclysmic event that causes electricity and radio signals to fail. In this book, they don’t know why this is happening, but they find out later in the series
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Does someone cheat?
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There is a passing reference to one of John’s previous boyfriends cheating on him
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Does someone have cancer?
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There is a passing mention of one of the main characters volunteering in a children’s oncology ward
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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There is some underage drinking
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Is there a hospital scene?
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There are several mentions of working in a hospital though because one of the main characters is a doctor
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Is someone kidnapped?
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[Spoiler for the end of the book] The Seongs’ parents were kidnapped for the duration of the book. They survive.
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Is there a shower scene?
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No but there is a bath scene
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Swearing
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Does a pet die?
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Implied
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Chewing tobacco used by a side character mentioned in passing
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Is someone tortured?
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[Spoiler for a plot point close to the end of the book] It is revealed in the last few chapters that the Seongs’ missing parents had been held captive for the duration of the book. They had been tied up and unable to return home. It’s not described what may have happened to them during their incarceration
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Is there childbirth?
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Technically yes, but it happens “off-screen.” A character mentioned to have been pregnant is has a child by the end of the book
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Pregnant side character
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Does a head get squashed?
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A character is rendered unconscious when a rock is launched into his skull by a slingshot. He survives.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Some characters tell an anecdote of someone who attempted to rob their parents’ store and ended up with a broken arm and two black eyes. This story is told in passing and there are no details.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Use of the word “spaz.” Also, a violent and racist character is framed as being that way because he has PTSD and is off his meds. In real life, PTSD, even from combat, only slightly increases someone’s likelihood of being violent
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Is religion discussed?
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Passing mentions of going to church in the past
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Is there blood/gore?
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The very first line is "So much blood."
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Is there a dead animal?
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The characters discuss hunting deer, but they do not end up doing this. There is meat served in various scenes though
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Is there sexual content?
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Several detailed sex scenes
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Does a parent die?
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[Spoiler for the end of the book]. The Seongs all survive. Arden still doesn’t know what happened to her parents by the end of the book, so that is still ambiguous. In the climax of the book, the protagonist shoots and kills a man trying to break into the Seongs’ cabin. He was the father of a baby.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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The characters speculate that a nuclear attack may have caused the circumstance they’re in, but that doesn’t seem to be the case since there was no mushroom cloud and no one had taken responsibility for such an attack
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