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== Literature ==
* In Dennis Lehane's novel ''[[The Given Day]]'', Luther Laurence, a black man in 1919, [[Earn Your Happy Ending|goes through a lot of crap just so he can be reunited with his wife and a child he's never seen]] in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the most properous black community in America at the time. The problem the novel doesn't address? [[wikipedia:Tulsa race riot|Tulsa's prosperity only lasts another couple years.]] [[It Got Worse|Then shit really hits the fan.]]
* In the Chinese science-fiction story [[Translation Train Wreck|''Barrage Jamming''/''Universal Jamming''/''Full-Band Interception'']] by Liu Cixin, The Russians/Chinese ([[
* Later, Liu Cixin remade parts of the story into ''[[Ball Lightning]]'', to avoid the sun-ramming part.
* ''[[World War Z]]'': although the book ends on a hopeful note, it's also set up in such a way that one person not being careful enough could start the whole thing over again. But it's also set up in such a way as to indicate humanity has learned much from the experiences chronicled in the book, so it might not be such a horrible fight the next time.
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