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(The first book in the Four-BEE series) It's jang to be wild and sexy and reckless. It's jang to change your body, or your gender. It's jang to do daredevil tricks, and even get killed a few times..you can always come alive again. And it's jang to try to sabotage your robot-run world. But when the madcap chase for pleasure begins to drag and you start looking for a real life to live, you find the robots have left you nothing worthwhile to do. Searching for a way out of this pointless existence you make a lot of painful and stupid mistakes. But you fight your way free and start a new life - in exile. ..and you find you have to cope with sightseers and hangers-on, all uninvited and now exiled with you - and finally come face to face with the greatest and most deadly threat of all.
Is Don't Bite the Sun appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
Set in a hedonistic far-future society where death is reversible and gender is fluid, this philosophical SF novel explores existential emptiness and rebellion. Contains mature themes about suicide, identity crisis, and the search for meaning in a pleasure-driven world.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, moderate sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include suicide, death, and identity crisis (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teens interested in philosophical questions about identity and purpose will appreciate this wild, thought-provoking journey through a world where you can do anything but nothing matters.