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A film adaptation was mentioned at IMDB several years ago, but the project was never realised because the [[Executive Meddling|producers wished to make their own sequel and merchandise]]. Farmer felt this would lessen the themes of her story, so an agreement was never reached. However, Farmer has stated that she is still open towards offers for a film.
According to Farmer's [https://web.archive.org/web/20120630142340/http://www.nancyfarmerwebsite.com/4/post/2012/03/post-title-click-and-type-to-edit22.html blog], a sequel is in progress and expected to be complete in June 2012, although the release date has yet to be announced.
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* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: The Keepers hate "aristocrats" like Matt, as they feel that the goals of the collective are more important than the individual. It also applies to most of El Patron's family, and the MacGregors being portrayed as evil. El Patron's portrayal borders on this at times, but he is usually portrayed sympathetically.
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* [[Automaton Horses]]: The "safe horses" are embedded with a computer chip, that makes them follow any order given and do it until ordered to stop. They can be ridden to exhaustion and will keep going until ordered otherwise. However, they will die without food and water like a normal horse.
* [[Author Tract]]: The book can be read as a insight on human cloning, immigration, drugs, slavery, pollution, and stem cell research. Farmer, however, says that she is not against human cloning, but is very wary about it.
* [[Big Screwed
* [[Child Prodigy]]: Matt is talented in a number of fields, but especially at music.
* [[Cloning Blues]]: This forms the backbone of the plot, as Matt struggles to find his place in a world hostile to clones.
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* [[Freudian Excuse]]: El Patron's childhood. He was the only surviving child of a ''large'' family, had to beg his landlord for food, and pretty much only had money when it was given to him via charity.
* [[Future Food Is Artificial]]: The Lost Boys live off of plankton; once Matt escapes from the Keepers, Sister Inez mentions that it is used only for animal feed, subverting this.
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* [[Government Drug Enforcement]] : By law, clones must be given drugs at birth to stunt their intelligence, making them just a step above vegetables. Matt avoided this simply because of El Patron's influence.
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: Matt's sole raison d'etre is to {{spoiler|provide El Patron with backup organs}}.
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* [[The Promised Land]]: The United States, or more specifically, California, for some of the boys under the Keepers control. For many of the immigrants mentioned in the novel, the United States serves as this as well. Subverted in the fact the US's economy is so bad to the point that Americans now view Aztlán (A future Mexico) as this as well, that Opium authorities catch people coming in from both directions.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: In order to atone for his past, {{spoiler|Tam Lin decides that his redemption is attained in death}}.
* [[Shout
* [[The Future]]: The novel appears to be set in an unspecified point in the future; while technology in Opium has been repressed to standards used a century ago from their time, the rest of the world possesses decidedly futuristic technology: holographic displays and anti-gravitational technology is fairly widespread.
* [[Well
* [[What Measure Is a Non
* [[You Are Better Than You Think You Are]]: Despite the discrimination against clones in general, Matt comes to realise and understand that he was human all along.
* [[You Are Not Alone]]: Recalling that he has the [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|support of his family and friends]], Matt sets about the imposing task of {{spoiler|reverting all of the changes El Patron had imposed upon Opium at the novel's end}}.
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