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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 On Male|set up his own son to be raped.]]}}

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 On Male)|set up his own son to be raped.]]}}

** 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.

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== 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 Humans]], perhaps, but [[Ridiculously Human Robots]] seem unlikely, especially given the fact that the Bestiary on the website does show some ''genuinely'' robotic 'animals' such as the Asimov Horse.

** That seems very unlikely, given that they can reproduce and everything. [[Artificial Humans]], perhaps, but [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]] seem unlikely, especially given the fact that the Bestiary on the website does show some ''genuinely'' robotic 'animals' such as the Asimov Horse.

== 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. ==