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A [[Science Fiction]] literary series, created by [[Jasper Fforde]].
Over seven hundred years into the future, following a vague [[After the End|Something That Happened,]] the country of Chromatacia lies where Britain does today. The human race has transformed into an [[Ambiguous Gender|androgynous-looking race]] of people with very small pupils that can see one ''and only one'' color, all others appearing as [[Title Drop|shades of grey.]] Your social standing depends entirely on the one color you can see; those who see purple belong in the aristocracy, whereas those who see red are the working class. Achromatics, or "Greys", cannot see any color at all, and thus they're little more than slaves. These humans share the world with many species of giant, mutant creatures, [[Man
Our protagonist is Eddie Russett, a young man and member of the House of Red. As punishment for having humiliated a prefect's son, he is banished to the village of East Carmine for a month of menial labor, along with his father, who is sent to replace the village's recently-deceased medical practicioner. After making himself at home and meeting the quirky locals, he falls head-over-heels for a feisty Achromatic named Jane, whose violent temper is as rare in Chromatacia as is the shape of her nose. Smitten, Eddie begins to stalk her, and in doing so he accidentally stumbles on an incredible secret, one that will rock their world to its foundation. Together, for better or worse, Eddie and Jane become the seeds of a revolution...
Not to be confused with the [[Web Comic]] or [[Interactive Fiction]] [[
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]] - Violet deMauve, first for Doug, then for Eddie.
* [[After the End]]
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]] - As noted elsewhere, each chapter begins with a quote from what are presumably the rules of Munsell. Most of them don't appear to have any greater significant, but one of the earlier chapters foreshadows part of the ending, namely {{spoiler|Jane and Eddie being incompatible because they are complementary colours.}}
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]] - Chromaticia's entire social structure.
* [[Color
* [[Double Standard Rape (Female
* [[Downer Ending]] - Bloody hell. {{spoiler|Eddie can't marry Jane because it turns out she's Green; People sent for reboot end up dead from the Mildew in High Saffron; Mildew isn't a natural disease, it's a colour used to take care of certain undesirable sectors of society by Head Office. See also [[Complete Monster]].}}
* [[Encyclopedia Exposita]] - Each chapter opens with a quote from the rules.
* [[G
* [[How We Got Here]] - The book starts with Eddie inside a [[Man
* [[I Wish It
* [[Loophole Abuse]] - How a surprising amount of things are accomplished in Chromatacia, really. Stuck between the inviolable rules and the need for certain things to get done (things usually required by ''other'' rules), loopholery has become a proud tradition.
* [[Lovable Rogue]] - Tommo Cinnabar. A snitch, drug addict, and all-around ne'er-do-well with a [[Money Fetish]], but a charming and likeable one nonetheless.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]] - {{spoiler|[[Inverted Trope|Inverted]]}}
* [[Make It Look Like an Accident]]
* [[Man
* [[Meaningful Name]] - Family names suggest the colors they can see: the Russetts, a Red family; the deMauves, a Purple family; Gamboge, the Yellow prefect; etc.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] - Legends of the Previous, such as [[Madonna|M'Donna]] and [[Chuck Norris|Chuck Naurice.]]
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* [[Scavenger World]]
* [[Sequel Hook]]
* [[Shout
** Prefect Yewberry warns Eddie and his father about Pookas in Rusty Hill, saying they've appeared [[Harvey|here and there, now and then, to this one and that one.]]
** When Eddie is Zane's house in Rusty Hill, there's a television playing '[[
** The Oz Memorial and all the works of art.
** Most characters have last names relating to their colors, however grays are only referred to as G-(insert number here). So we end up having a character Zane the Grey. Jane is arguably an allusion to the same.
** Subtler than the others, but throughout Eddie refers to the Ishihara, the test all citizens take in order to have their colour perception levels certified. In real life, the Ishihara test is used for a similar purpose - to test colour-blindness, rather than colour-perception. (This troper is red-green colourblind. He's had more than a few Ishiharas)
* [[Star
* [[Stealth Pun]] - One of the minor characters is a photographer who can only see grey and is called Dorian. [[The Picture of Dorian Gray|Hmmm...]]
** In fact, all of the Greys are [[Stealth Pun|stealth puns.]] Unlike other characters, they aren't given last names that are actual color shades, instead being G-17 or G-24 etc. So in addition to Dorian Gray we have [
*** But no [[X
**** It's only the first one, so I'm sure she'll show up eventually.
** Not to mention the love story between [[Jane Eyre|Edward and Jane]].
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* [[Tsundere]] - Jane. Very much so.
* [[Unperson]] - Apocryphals would be... [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|if they existed, which they don't]].
* [[Unusual Euphemism]] - You know (sex) and thingying ([[A Date
* [[When Trees Attack]] - The Yateveo.
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