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== Holden Russett is secretly working for Head Office ==
Jane mentions late in the book, that {{spoiler|swatchmen are generally lackeys for Head Office, infecting unruly citizens with the Mildew.}} Although she believes that Holden is not an evil man, it's entirely possible that he is edging Eddie on, pushing him forth into situations where he will either be captured by agents of Head Office or inadvertently reveal pertinent information to them about the resistance. After all, it takes a pretty shitty dad to {{spoiler|[[Double Standard Rape (Female
** But that's kind of the point - the society is so messed up that even a reasonably decent man will do something that unpleasant. Pimping out your own children is endemic.
== The Colourman is
As shown in the end,
** This was something I thought as well, going through the book. {{spoiler|Matthew Gloss' actions can be seen as creepily paternal, particularly offering Eddie the opportunity to join National Colour.}}
== The main characters are all robots, the Riff Raff are the remaining real humans ==
The Something That Happened was the robot revolution. The robots all had a massive sense of inferiority over the fact that they were not real creatures, Munsell's Epiphany was that if the robots did not know they were robots then they were free to live happy lives. The point of the Leap Backs is to bring science so low that no-one can even comprehend the idea of what a robot is. This is how everyone has a bar code and how they can have programmed responses to colours and sounds.
** That seems very unlikely, given that they can reproduce and everything. [[Artificial
== The original humans invented space travel and left Earth. The people who were left behind have been subject to intense genetic alteration and/or testing. ==
Jane specifically mentions {{spoiler|the "lights on the dark part of the crescent moon," which apparently look like stars. These seem a lot like moon bases. Taken into account with the other lights that streak across the sky, some of which are probably meteorites, some of which might be satellites, and others of which might be space stations, you get what a spacefaring civilization might look like to an earthbound human...ish.}} Perhaps the Fallen Man was meant to be looking in on the remnants to see how they're doing when his lander failed or something.
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