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* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: During Mirsky's training.
* [[Family-Friendly Firearms]]
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* [[Gender Rarity Value]]: A shortage of women on the Stone {{spoiler|after the Death}} leads to arming said women to protect against rapes.
* [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]]: In the novel's version of the twenty-first century, the United States enters a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Also, The Berlin Wall still seems to be up, due to West German personnel on the Stone.▼
* [[Human Aliens]]: The Frants, but oddly enough many of the future humans avoid this by having artificially designed bodies.
* [[Interservice Rivalry]]: Mirsky's men vs. the ''Zampolits''.▼
* [[I Want My Jetpack]]: Patricia says the second chamber, “just doesn’t look that much like the future.” She’s somewhat justified in this case, though, since the second chamber architecture was built to resemble twentieth-century earth; technology in other parts of the Stone is more advanced.
▲* [[Interservice Rivalry]]: Mirsky's men vs. the ''Zampolits''.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Including lots of named bit characters who only appear a couple of times.
* [[Lucky Seven]]: The seventh chamber of the Stone is the important one. {{spoiler|It is blown off the end of the Stone with seven charges.}}
* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Takahashi.}}▼
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Chapters Three and Four are basically Lanier doing this for each chamber in the Stone.
* [[NATO]]: Helped the U.S. gain control over the Stone before the USSR.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Averted with Ralph Nader and Mikhail Gorbachev.
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Mirsky is {{spoiler|shot in the head}}. We have to wait ten chapters before finding out he was {{spoiler|regenerated by the library’s emergency systems.}}▼
* [[No Transhumanism Allowed]]: Subverted by the Neomorphs, many of whom have amazingly inhuman engineered bodies.
▲* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Mirsky is {{spoiler|shot in the head}}. We have to wait ten chapters before finding out he was {{spoiler|regenerated by the library’s emergency systems.}}
* [[Nuke'Em]]: Both the United States and the Soviet Union have this attitude.
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Belozersky and Yazykov.
▲* [[Power Trio]]: The ''Zampolits'' have Belozersky as Id, Vielgorsky as Ego and Yazykov as Superego.
* [[Red Scare]]: Still scary.
* [[Ringworld Planet]]: The Stone, with the Thistledown inside.
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* [[Space Amish]]: Played with in The Naderites. They keep themselves a tech bracket above us, but below the rest of Axis City.
* [[Starfish Aliens]]: Of all the species that trade along the Way, only the Naderites and Frants are humanoid.
▲* [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]]: In the novel's version of the twenty-first century, the United States enters a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Also, The Berlin Wall still seems to be up, due to West German personnel on the Stone.
▲* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Takahashi.}}
* [[Throwaway Country]]: Subverted when Patricia reads a textbook with an index of all the casualties in her home state of California.
* [[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]]: The Soviets.
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