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The Earth society shown in ''Nebula'' is a classless, moneyless, [[No Poverty|post-scarcity]] Communist Utopia in the original, theoretical-Communism sense: there's no oppression, [[No Poverty]], no exploited classes (well, actually no classes at all), everyone gets ''most'' of their desires fulfilled at no cost, but everyone is considerate enough to not wish for something really outrageous. Politically it is an anarchist technocracy not unlike [[The Culture]], albeit without the near-omniscience of the Minds, with powerful computers being only the aids and tools to the various governing committees and academies.
[[Absent Aliens]] are averted — there are a lot of various sapient aliens around, and most of them in the vicinity has already formed the Great Ring (or Great Circle), a kind of [[The Federation|bulletin-board-cum-United-Nations organization]] which shares useful information and discusses important cooperation matters. Which is not a small feat, given that at this point of time the [[Faster
The novel features a complex interwoven plot that centers on a several key characters and storylines: starship captain Erg Noor, returning from his last expedition with many important discoveries, the ex-Outer Stations director<ref>A kind of communications engineer responsible for the Great Circle transmissions</ref> Dar Veter, who's [[Desperately Looking for
These characters and their storylines interconnect and influence each other through the story, allowing the author to paint a broad and colorful picture of a pretty appealing society. It's not without its problems, though, and they ''do'' get to be discussed there, but the main conflict of the novel still boils down to, as it's often said, to the "conflict of the good with the better": the Earth's expansion drive, personified by Erg Noor, is not only checked by the needs of the Earth itself (whose frontheads are Dar Veter and Veda Kong), but also runs headfirst into the very scale of the space: Efremov, being a scientist, consciously ''averted'' [[Sci
In the end the novel just kind of opened the gate for the Soviet Science Fiction. Stuck for decades in their ghetto, the authors suddenly realized that the world is much ''bigger'' than they're used to think, and jumped on the bandwagon enthusiastically, paving the way for the Golden Age of the genre.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Nisa Greet on the planet of the Iron Star. Various Earth girls are pretty active too, but given its idyllic state have little chance to show off.
* [[Absent Aliens]]: Averted. There are loads and loads of them. The only problem is that lack of [[Faster
* [[Adorkable]]: Ren Boz, who's a textbook portrait of a nerd, but is full of puppy charm.
* [[After the End]]: Several subtle details hint on the current idyllic state of the Earth being the result of the enormous effort to rebuild and revive the planet after the disastrous and ''almost'' fatal [[World War III|war or series of wars]]. There are mentions of civilizations that didn't make it.
* [[Cool Starship]]: ''Tantra'' in the first part, ''Swan'' in the epilogue. ''Sail'' and ''Algorab'' fail to qualify by being lost, even if the former is a ''Tantra'''s sistership and gets finally found.
* [[Faster
* [[For Science!]]: Ren Boz's motivation for the experiment.
* [[Human Aliens]]: Epsilon Tucanae people, who are inexplicably human enough to be squarely ''out'' of [[Uncanny Valley]]. Mven Mass falling for one of them in their Great Circle transmission<ref>Although they haven't yet joined it at that point</ref> forms his motivation to support Ren Boz's experiment.
** Unfortunately, as a sequel points out, the marriages between Eartlings and Tucanians (yes, [[They Do]]) are still childless.
** Averted with all other major races. They are mostly humanoid (some enough to qualify as [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]]), but clearly distinguishable from Earth humans.
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* [[Jerkass]]: Pour Hyss, the ''Tantra'''s egotistical astronomer, and Beth Lon, the sociopathic mathematical genius, though the latter gets redeemed somewhat.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Two: one, between Erg Noor, Veda Kong and Dar Veter, is closer to [[Triang Relations|Type 7]], although Noor and Veter are friends and both [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|wish for their beloved to be happy]]. The second, between Kong, Noor and Nisa Greet, is Type 11, with Nisa [[Romantic Two
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Beth Lon, who's, [[Word of God|as explicitly said by the author]], got his enormous intelligence at the expense of the [[The Sociopath|social skills]].
* [[Mister Exposition|Ms Exposition]]: Veda Kong, whose lecture about Earth history for the Great Ring is a one big [[Info Dump]].
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