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''Sometimes Never: A Fable for Supermen'' is a 1948 Science Fiction novel by [[Roald Dahl]]. It is the first novel after [[World War II]] to mention the atomic bomb and the end of the world. The plot is divided into two parts, the wartime adventure of RAF pilot Peternip during the [[Battle of Britain]] and the plan of the Gremlin Leader to outlive humanity in an alternative [[Cold War]].▼
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* [[Alternate History]]
* [[Apocalypse How]]
* [[Everybody's Dead, Dave]]: The Gremlin leader finds out if there's no humans, no one can imagine Gremlins, and so they cease to exist. Poof.
* [[Expy]]: There is a
** In fact, this book itself is a [[Darker and Edgier]] version of it.
* [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke]]: In the book, there is a kind of virus that targeted only designated victims.
* [[It Gets Worse]]: After all the humans on Earth kill each other, the Gremlins cease to exist, too
* [[Kill'Em All]]: See above. Roald Dahl had outdone Tomino!
* [[Mythology Gag]]: The main food of the gremlins are snozzberries. They are later referred in [[Charlie and
* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Roald Dahl is in fact the first person to suggest that radiation can make people mutate into zombies. Though he is [[Not Using the Z Word]], just wrote that people became mad when they are exposed to radiation. Later, there are some virus developed to drive people mad and bite each other
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: The Gremlin Leader did create a peaceful world without class, money or machinery among gremlins after there are no humans.
* [[Write Who You Know]]: Dahl himself had been a fighter pilot in the Second World War a few years earlier.
** Though not a nuclear scientist or politician.
* [[You Fail Nuclear Physics Forever]]: Completely averted. Roald Dahl describes a nuclear blast in a
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[[Category:Alternate History Literature]]
[[Category:Science Fiction Literature]]
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[[Category:Literature of the 1940s]]
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