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=== This series provides examples of the following tropes: === |
=== This series provides examples of the following tropes: === |
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* [[Artistic License Biology]]: |
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: |
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** Men outlive women, which is the reverse of what is biologically inclined to happen. This is especially egregious because the reason for the shortened lifespans is a virus -- women, having an extra X chromosome, would have more genetic material to copy from and would therefore be less vulnerable to a virus altering their genome. |
** Men outlive women, which is the reverse of what is biologically inclined to happen. This is especially egregious because the reason for the shortened lifespans is a virus -- women, having an extra X chromosome, would have more genetic material to copy from and would therefore be less vulnerable to a virus altering their genome. |
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** The book can't seem to decide if the cause for the [[Depopulation Bomb]] is a virus or genetic engineering, which are two very different things. |
** The book can't seem to decide if the cause for the [[Depopulation Bomb]] is a virus or genetic engineering, which are two very different things. |
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*** Furthermore, the nice thing about genetic engineering is that it's almost always reversible, since there's always a copy of the original genome floating around somewhere. It would be easy for the geneticists to reverse the changes after people started dying. |
*** Furthermore, the nice thing about genetic engineering is that it's almost always reversible, since there's always a copy of the original genome floating around somewhere. It would be easy for the geneticists to reverse the changes after people started dying. |
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* [[Artistic License Geography]]: Apparently, among other things, [[World War Three]] caused the ice caps to melt and now everything but America is underwater. However, Manhattan and America's coastline are somehow completely fine. Furthermore, all of the countries and continents are rubble, destroyed during the war. Rhine mentions that all that's left are tiny uninhabitable islands and the continent of North America. All of this destruction has absolutely no ill effects on the ecosystem, weather, sea level, or anything else in America. |
* [[Artistic License Geography]]: Apparently, among other things, [[World War Three]] caused the ice caps to melt and now everything but America is underwater. However, Manhattan and America's coastline are somehow completely fine. Furthermore, all of the countries and continents are rubble, destroyed during the war. Rhine mentions that all that's left are tiny uninhabitable islands and the continent of North America. All of this destruction has absolutely no ill effects on the ecosystem, weather, sea level, or anything else in America. |
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** Antarctica is also included as a casualty. ''Antarctica''. The one place where a nuke would be completely unnecessary under any and all circumstances. |
** Antarctica is also included as a casualty. ''Antarctica''. The one place where a nuke would be completely unnecessary under any and all circumstances. |
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** [[Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Rhine mentions that the remains of the destroyed areas are so small they can't be seen by satellite. Satellites can actually see ''really'' small things -- sandbars, for example. |
** [[Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Rhine mentions that the remains of the destroyed areas are so small they can't be seen by satellite. Satellites can actually see ''really'' small things -- sandbars, for example. |
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