The Big U: Difference between revisions

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| author = Neal Stephenson

* [[Dean Bitterman]]: [[Double Subverted]]. Septimus Severus Krupp is presented initially as a conservative and authoritarian dean who makes life hell for the students. However, when he finally appears to the protagonists, he seems quite the [[Reasonable Authority Figure]], a bulwark against the rowdy Stalinists...{{spoiler|at least, until it's revealed that he's been using the school as a nuclear waste storage facility}}.

* [[Dirty Commies]]: The Stalinist Unity Battalion.

* [[Escalating War]]: Klein and Fenrick's stereo battles, which get more and more dramatic, ultimately culminating in {{spoiler|Fenrick's death and the accidental creation of a race of mutant rats}}.

* [[Geek Physiques]]: Both Casimir and Fred Fine are the "unhealthily skinny" kind.

[[Category:Literature of the 1980s]]

[[Category:Science Fiction Literature]]

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