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''Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'' (Japanese: 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド, ''Sekai no Owari to Hādo-Boirudo Wandārando'') is a 1985 novel by Japanese author [[Haruki Murakami]]. The story alternates between two narratives, "Hard-Boiled Wonderland" and "The End of the World", and has a strange, dreamlike quality running through both.▼
| original title = 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド
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| author = Haruki Murakami
| central theme = Identity and consciousness
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| genre = Speculative fiction, Surrealism
| publication date = June 1985
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▲'''''Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World''''' (Japanese: 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド, ''Sekai no Owari to Hādo-Boirudo Wandārando'') is a 1985 novel by Japanese author [[Haruki Murakami]]. The story alternates between two narratives, "Hard-Boiled Wonderland" and "The End of the World", and has a strange, dreamlike quality running through both.
The first narrative tells the story of an unnamed protagonist in a [[Cyberpunk]] future Tokyo who is trained to be what is essentially a human data processor, whose subconscious holds an encryption key to prevent the information from falling into the wrong hands. The second narrative follows an individual who has just arrived in a strange walled town where the inhabitants, including the narrator, have been separated from their shadows and are not allowed to go beyond the town wall. The two parallel narratives begin to
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* [[And I Must Scream]]: What the protagonist and the Professor think living inside one's own mind would be like.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: The Professor is an old man and a brilliant scientist. Despite his age, he still manages to climb an underground mountain with a sprained ankle while fending off horrible underground creatures. His granddaughter also qualifies - she's learned huge amounts from her grandfather and has no trouble dealing with a pair of Semiotec goons.
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