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* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]: Practically every human character we see, but there's no "Retro" here -- in the 1976 of the book, the hippie counterculture is still a vibrant and living thing, almost at the tipping point where it stops being "counter" and becomes the culture. And the narration suggests that that's ''exactly'' what happened after the events of the book.
* [[Physical God]]: Michael manifests a "small pantheon" the first time he takes the Reality Pill: [[The Rolling Stones|Mick]], the god of teenyboppers; Moe, the god of tourists; Phlipout and Phlippina, twin dieties of disorder; Fellatia, a goddess whose sphere is unspecified but is pretty obvious; Buldge, the goddess of minor disasters ("whose merest glance could delay a chick's period two weeks."); Toke, the god of Pot; Chuck, the god of miscellany; and Zap, deity of changes. While they exist, they are pretty much the real deal, though subject to Michael's control.
* [[The Quisling]]: Laszlo Scott.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: The gang Chester and Michael assemble to battle the Lobsters at the reservoir.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Sean greeting Chester with [[Gunsmoke|"Howdy, Mister Dillon"]]; [[The Rolling Stones|Mick]], the god of teenyboppers.
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