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** Then, what's not a Dystopia borders on being a [[Mary Suetopia]]. Women are paid to be mothers if they choose to stay home with their children, and people can retire quite young (the book is vague... late fifties, sixty at the latest?) and live quite comfortable lives on their default retirement package... keep in mind people live well past 100 in the setting, so it's not all that unreasonable to think someone could live on their social security anywhere from two to ''four'' times as long as they worked. Where all the money for this comes from without taxes being so high that everyone just gets a living allowance from the government is never explained. |
** Then, what's not a Dystopia borders on being a [[Mary Suetopia]]. Women are paid to be mothers if they choose to stay home with their children, and people can retire quite young (the book is vague... late fifties, sixty at the latest?) and live quite comfortable lives on their default retirement package... keep in mind people live well past 100 in the setting, so it's not all that unreasonable to think someone could live on their social security anywhere from two to ''four'' times as long as they worked. Where all the money for this comes from without taxes being so high that everyone just gets a living allowance from the government is never explained. |
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* [[Les Yay]] - Dallas and Peabody, but only for humor, as they are both straight and in committed relationships. |
* [[Les Yay]] - Dallas and Peabody, but only for humor, as they are both straight and in committed relationships. |
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{{quote|'''Peabody''' ''(explaining her lateness):'' ..."Then I couldn't sleep because of the jitters, so I jumped McNab to sort of remind myself why I'm doing this..." |
{{quote|'''Peabody''' ''(explaining her lateness):'' ..."Then I couldn't sleep because of the jitters, so I jumped McNab to sort of remind myself why I'm doing this..." |
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"Was okay until the subway breakdown. That threw me off, and now I've got the jitters again." |
"Was okay until the subway breakdown. That threw me off, and now I've got the jitters again." |
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'''Dallas:''' "You can just forget about jumping me to take your mind off them."|(''Imitation In Death'')}} |
'''Dallas:''' "You can just forget about jumping me to take your mind off them."|(''Imitation In Death'')}} |
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* [[Mary Sue]] - Eve. Even if you don't agree that she is in execution, tell someone you know that you're reading a series about a female cop in the future who's pretty much the best police officer in the city, who constantly has bad guys work their entire plans around challenging themselves against her, and who is married to a drop-dead gorgeous guy who's the richest man in the universe. |
* [[Mary Sue]] - Eve. Even if you don't agree that she is in execution, tell someone you know that you're reading a series about a female cop in the future who's pretty much the best police officer in the city, who constantly has bad guys work their entire plans around challenging themselves against her, and who is married to a drop-dead gorgeous guy who's the richest man in the universe. |
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