Hard contact 📖

Hard contact

Traviss, Karen
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science fiction space opera past tense third limited POV ~355 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

gritty tense melancholic

A science fiction. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 40
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 65
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 55
externalintrospective
Ending 60
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 90
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 40%
seriouscomedic
Romance 10%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count88,771
Page count~355 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited