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* [[Fantastic Religious Weirdness]]: The Reverend Henry Armitage, former radio preacher and post-apocalyptic authentic whack-job, preaches against the evils of trying to rebuild a technological society rather than just accepting God's righteous punishment and allowing humanity to die. Oh, and being a cannibal is okay, if you're on God's mission. People believe him, mainly because they've all committed unspeakable acts and want to believe they've been forgiven.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: The manner in which Air Force General John Baker saves the nuclear power plant from the cannibal army.

** The Chinese government gets one of these, mixed with a massive [[Darwin Award]]. See [[Nuke'Em]] below.

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: With a rapidly climbing threshold as conditions deteriorate. By the end of the book, one generally nice character is justifying ''slavery.''

* [[One Degree of Separation]]: The novel focuses on characters who all know each other or are related in some way. This helps explain why they are all accepted inside Jellison's ranch when the majority of people who try are turned away. The heroes even know (or at least have met and have some knowledge of) the villains.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Extensive and very impressive research means that the cometary impact and its aftereffects are described in brutal, loving detail.

 

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