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Dark Eden

Chris Beckett (2012)

SubgenreDark Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingR
Pages (Standard (250-400))
SeriesDark Eden (Chris Beckett) #1
Setting
CSM age16+
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Content levels

ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentModerate
LanguageModerate

Trigger warnings

StarvationAbandonmentDeathSurvivalClass Struggle

Positive tags

SurvivalFound FamilyComing of Age

Protagonist archetypes

Ensemble CastLast SurvivorColonist / SettlerFish out of Water

Tropes

Lost CivilizationColonizationSurvivalComing of AgeRebellionNon-Western SettingDark LordGrimdark

Themes

SurvivalIsolationSocietal CollapseTribalismHumanity's ResilienceEnvironmental AdaptationBreaking Tradition

Synopsis

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Aware 2013. The story of the Family, 532 descendants of two abandoned explorers who huddle, slowly starving, in the warmth of geothermal trees, confined to one barely habitable valley of an alien, sunless world.

Tags

Science FictionPost-ApocalypticAnthropological SFSurvival Horror