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== This work provides examples == |
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* [[Anachronic Order]]: Vonnegut just ''loves'' this trope, doesn't he. The narrator will constantly throw out tidbits about what the future is like left and right. |
* [[Anachronic Order]]: Vonnegut just ''loves'' this trope, doesn't he. The narrator will constantly throw out tidbits about what the future is like left and right. |
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* [[Adam and Eve Plot]]: Sort of... Just replace Adam with a drunk, racist sea captain and Eve with six pre-teen girls (the last of an isolated tribe from the rainforest) and a fur-covered teenager who looks like [[Star Wars|Chewbacca]], and then throw in a blind girl, a depressed Japanese woman, and a suicidal widower, and you've pretty much got the cast. Well... At least it tries to avoid [[Hollywood Science]]... |
* [[Adam and Eve Plot]]: Sort of... Just replace Adam with a drunk, racist sea captain and Eve with six pre-teen girls (the last of an isolated tribe from the rainforest) and a fur-covered teenager who looks like [[Star Wars|Chewbacca]], and then throw in a blind girl, a depressed Japanese woman, and a suicidal widower, and you've pretty much got the cast. Well... At least it tries to avoid [[Hollywood Science]]... |
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* [[Evolutionary Levels]]: Averted, the future surviving humans look like little more than seals, and have the intelligence to match. |
* [[Evolutionary Levels]]: Averted, the future surviving humans look like little more than seals, and have the intelligence to match. |
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* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: The human race all dies out, except for these seal-people on one island of the Galapagos. The author even marks those who are going to die with a big, fat star in front of their names. |
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: The human race all dies out, except for these seal-people on one island of the Galapagos. The author even marks those who are going to die with a big, fat star in front of their names. |
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* [[Humans Are Bastards]] / [[Humans Are Morons]] / [[Humanity Is Insane]] : Apparently, [[Anvilicious|yes]]. The narrator [[Author Tract|states continually through the book]] how our sentience is the root of our problems and considers their future forms - hands sealed up in flippers, redundant big brains atrophied by evolution - [[Take That|to be an improvement]]. |
* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|Humans Are Bastards]] / [[Humans Are Morons]] / [[Humanity Is Insane]] : Apparently, [[Anvilicious|yes]]. The narrator [[Author Tract|states continually through the book]] how our sentience is the root of our problems and considers their future forms - hands sealed up in flippers, redundant big brains atrophied by evolution - [[Take That|to be an improvement]]. |
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* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]: [[Hollywood Evolution|Little Akiko's fur coat]] is due to radiation her grandmother received in the Hiroshima bombing. |
* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]: [[Hollywood Evolution|Little Akiko's fur coat]] is due to radiation her grandmother received in the Hiroshima bombing. |
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* [[In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves]] : Hey, it's a Kurt Vonnegut novel. This trope is pretty much a given. |
* [[In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves]] : Hey, it's a Kurt Vonnegut novel. This trope is pretty much a given. |
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