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* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: The narrator muses that his father - science fiction author Kilgore Trout - would sometimes try to get his books adapted as movies, but they were always scuppered by having one vital scene that could never be included in a film. Then he describes how, after sex with the ship's captain, the island's only adult woman extracts his sperm from herself and impregnates the girls with it. No ''Galapagos'' movie, then.

* [[Posthumous Narration]]: The entire story is told by some guy (Leon Trout, the estranged son of Vonnegut's recurring character Kilgore Trout) who died during the construction of the ship that brought the original colonists to the islands.

* [[Transhuman Aliens]]: The human race by the end of the novel looks like, well, [[Call a Smeerp A Rabbit|seals]]. They lack language and technology, have flippers for hands and feet, long snouted skulls, become fertile at six and rarely live past thirty.

* [[Transhuman Aliens]]: The human race by the end of the novel looks like, well, [[Call a Smeerp a Rabbit|seals]]. They lack language and technology, have flippers for hands and feet, long snouted skulls, become fertile at six and rarely live past thirty.

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: The ghost telling the story frequently inserts his criticisms of his cast, as well as diatribes against the human brain. Of course, by telling the story at all, he exempts himself, as he's already dead.