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Plot Summary of Enemy
"A boy, a girl, and the end of the world... enemy is the emotional story of a war outside of space and time, and the lives that it tears apart in its wake.

The Judas, the last survivors of a machine-initiated extinction incomprehensibly far into the future, live out their lives in the spaces between the stars and the Whens. Tough, battle-hardened, exhausted after centuries of war, they pursue the Enemy, machine-based life forms whose sole Purpose is to upload the last few survivors into their precious Program Seven.
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Paul Hughes, Resident Scholar




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Plot
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Robots, Computers, VR Yes
Robot, PC, VR Plotlets: - fighting evil robot(s) - fighting bad computer AI
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Computer
Profession/status: - fighter (air/space) pilot
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric: Yes - obsessed - emotionally unstable
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - an entire race
Age: - long-lived adults
Eccentric: Yes - obsessed - mentally ill - deluded - emotionally unstable - wild
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.

Setting
Terrain - Space, need spacesuit - Asteroid
Which planet? - Mars - Asteroids
Earth setting: - near future (later in 21st century) - distant future
Spaceship setting: - futuristic human warship - really, really giant spaceship/station
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes
Not Earth, in Solar System? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - a moderate amount of scientific explanation
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references only - descript of kissing
Is this an e-book? Yes
How much dialogue? - significantly more dialog than descript
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