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* GaiasLament: Earth's fate as a whole.

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%% * GaiasLament: Earth's fate as a whole.



* LighterAndSofter: Surprisingly yes, compared to the movie, if only mariginally, since things aren't ''quite'' as bad in the novel as they are there. At least not yet, since the movie is set about 20 years later.



* SoylentSoy: Played straight, unlike the film adaptation.

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* DepravedHomosexual: Charlie, the head of the servants at Chelsea Park, in addition to running a black market for the tenants, also keeps the elevator boy in his bed overnight.
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* NotHisSled: An unusual inversion, thanks to AdaptationDisplacement. Here, soylent green actually ''is'' just processed soy and lentils.

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* NotHisSled: An unusual inversion, thanks to AdaptationDisplacement. Here, soylent green actually Unlike the movie, and it's infamous TwistEnding about the [[HumanResources true nature of Soylent Green]], there's no such twist here; Soylent Green doesn't exist, and the product it was based on, Soylent Soy, really ''is'' just processed made from soy and lentils.lentils.
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* ExcitedShowTitle: The title is an exclamation, referencing the overpopulation of the world in the novel.
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* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: A crowd riot gets so out of hand that the police have to use weapons in a museum to break up the fight.

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* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: A crowd riot gets so out of hand that the police have to use weapons in from a museum to break up the fight.
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* FailedFutureForecast: The novel's "overpopulated" dystopia has a world population of around seven billion--a number surpassed in RealLife in the early 2010s. The last line of the book describes the United States as having 344 million people, only 16 million more than the real-word total in 2019. Meanwhile, New York City has yet to pass the ''nine'' million mark even two decades past when the book is set, never mind ''thirty five'' million.

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* FailedFutureForecast: The novel's "overpopulated" dystopia has a world population of around seven billion--a billion – a number surpassed in RealLife in the early 2010s. The last final line of the book novel describes the United States as having 344 million people, only 16 million more than the real-word total in 2019. Meanwhile, New York City has yet to pass the ''nine'' million mark even two decades past when the book is set, novel's setting, never mind ''thirty five'' million.
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When a wealthy racketeer named "Big Mike" is killed, NYPD detective Andy Rusch is assigned to investigate the murder -- a daunting task, in a city of 35 million inhabitants. Rusch finds himself getting romantically involved with the murdered man's concubine, Shirl. Meanwhile, the killer -- a poor immigrant boy named Billy Chung -- attempts to elude capture.

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When a wealthy racketeer named "Big Mike" O'Brien is killed, NYPD detective Andy Rusch is assigned to investigate the murder -- a daunting task, in a city of 35 million inhabitants. Rusch finds himself getting romantically involved with the murdered man's concubine, Shirl. Meanwhile, the killer -- a poor immigrant boy poor, teenage petty criminal named Billy Chung -- attempts to elude capture.
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It's set in the CrapsackWorld of [[BigApplesauce New York City]] in the (then) far-future year of 1999, a world beset by severe overpopulation and environmental collapse, where a bland artificial food called soylent (made from soy and lentils) is the best thing most people ever get to eat.

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It's set in the CrapsackWorld of [[BigApplesauce New York City]] in the (then) far-future year of 1999, a world beset by [[OverpopulationCrisis severe overpopulation overpopulation]] and [[GaiasLament environmental collapse, collapse]], where a bland artificial food called soylent (made from soy and lentils) is the best thing most people ever get to eat.
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* AnAesop: The {{Aesop}} of the novel is that ''birth control should be legalized''. It's easy to forget how controversial a statement this once was. In the United States, it had only been legalized nationally by the Supreme Court's decision in ''Griswold v. Connecticut'', just one year before the novel was published. Even then, it would remain illegal for unmarried couples to use birth control until 1972 (''Eisenstadt v. Baird''). Since then, along with abortion, better agricultural techniques, medicine, etc. global population rates have dropped increasingly, especially in the most developed countries.

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* AnAesop: The {{Aesop}} of the novel is that ''birth control should be legalized''. It's easy to forget how controversial a statement this once was. In the United States, it had only been legalized nationally by the Supreme Court's decision in ''Griswold v. Connecticut'', just one year before the novel was published. Even then, it would remain illegal for unmarried couples to use birth control until 1972 (''Eisenstadt v. Baird''). Since then, along with abortion, better agricultural techniques, medicine, etc. global population growth rates have dropped increasingly, especially in the most developed countries.
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* SoylentSoy: Played straight, unlike the film adaptation.
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* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: A crowd riot gets so out of hand that the police have to use weapons in a museum to break up the fight.
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* DownerEnding: The story doesn't end happily for any of the principle characters. Billy and Sol [[spoiler:are dead]]. Andy has been [[spoiler:temporarily demoted to being a patrolman and Shirl has left him]]. On top of it all, the population is still increasing with no end in sight.
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* AnAesop: The {{Aesop}} of the novel is that ''birth control should be legalized''. It's easy to forget how controversial a statement this once was. In the United States, it had only been legalized nationally by the 1965 Supreme Court decision in ''Griswold v. Connecticut'', just one year before the novel was published. Even then, it remained illegal for unmarried couples to use birth control until 1972 (''Eisenstadt v. Baird''). Since then, along with abortion, better agricultural techniques, medicine, etc. global population rates have dropped increasingly, especially in the most developed countries.

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* AnAesop: The {{Aesop}} of the novel is that ''birth control should be legalized''. It's easy to forget how controversial a statement this once was. In the United States, it had only been legalized nationally by the 1965 Supreme Court Court's decision in ''Griswold v. Connecticut'', just one year before the novel was published. Even then, it remained would remain illegal for unmarried couples to use birth control until 1972 (''Eisenstadt v. Baird''). Since then, along with abortion, better agricultural techniques, medicine, etc. global population rates have dropped increasingly, especially in the most developed countries.
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* AnAesop: The {{Aesop}} of the novel is that ''birth control should be legalized''. It's easy to forget how controversial a statement this once was. In the United States, it had only been legalized nationally by the 1965 Supreme Court decision in ''Griswold vs. Connecticut'', just one year before the novel was published. Even then, it remained illegal for unmarried couples to use birth control until 1972 (''Eisenstadt v. Baird''). Since then, along with abortion, better agricultural techniques, medicine, etc. global population rates have dropped increasingly, especially in the most developed countries.

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* AnAesop: The {{Aesop}} of the novel is that ''birth control should be legalized''. It's easy to forget how controversial a statement this once was. In the United States, it had only been legalized nationally by the 1965 Supreme Court decision in ''Griswold vs.v. Connecticut'', just one year before the novel was published. Even then, it remained illegal for unmarried couples to use birth control until 1972 (''Eisenstadt v. Baird''). Since then, along with abortion, better agricultural techniques, medicine, etc. global population rates have dropped increasingly, especially in the most developed countries.
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* AnAesop: The {{Aesop}} of the novel is that ''birth control should be legalized''. It's easy to forget how controversial a statement this once was. In the United States, it had only been legalized nationally by the 1965 Supreme Court decision in ''Griswold vs. Connecticut'', only ''one year'' before the novel was published. Even then, it remained illegal for unmarried couples to use birth control until 1972 (''Eisenstadt v. Baird''). Since then, along with abortion, better agricultural techniques, medicine, etc. global population rates have dropped increasingly, especially in the most developed countries.

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* AnAesop: The {{Aesop}} of the novel is that ''birth control should be legalized''. It's easy to forget how controversial a statement this once was. In the United States, it had only been legalized nationally by the 1965 Supreme Court decision in ''Griswold vs. Connecticut'', only ''one year'' just one year before the novel was published. Even then, it remained illegal for unmarried couples to use birth control until 1972 (''Eisenstadt v. Baird''). Since then, along with abortion, better agricultural techniques, medicine, etc. global population rates have dropped increasingly, especially in the most developed countries.
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* AnAesop: The {{Aesop}} of the novel is that ''birth control should be legalized''. It's easy to forget how controversial a statement this once was. In the US, it had only been legalized nationally by the 1965 Supreme Court decision of ''Griswold vs. Connecticut'', or only ''two years'' before the book was released. Even then, it was illegal for unmarried couples to use birth control until 1972 (''Eisenstadt v. Baird''). Since then, along with abortion, better agricultural techniques, medicine, etc. global population rates have dropped increasingly, especially in the most developed countries.

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* AnAesop: The {{Aesop}} of the novel is that ''birth control should be legalized''. It's easy to forget how controversial a statement this once was. In the US, United States, it had only been legalized nationally by the 1965 Supreme Court decision of in ''Griswold vs. Connecticut'', or only ''two years'' ''one year'' before the book novel was released. published. Even then, it was remained illegal for unmarried couples to use birth control until 1972 (''Eisenstadt v. Baird''). Since then, along with abortion, better agricultural techniques, medicine, etc. global population rates have dropped increasingly, especially in the most developed countries.

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->''"To TODD and MOIRA\\
For your sakes, children, I hope this proves to be a work of fiction."''
-->-- '''{{Dedication}}''' to the novel



* {{Dedication}}:
-->To TODD and MOIRA\\
For your sakes, children, I hope this proves to be a work of fiction.

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* {{Dedication}}: To Harrison's children, Todd and Moira.
-->"For your sakes, children, I hope this proves to be a work of fiction."

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* {{Dedication}}: To Harrison's children, Todd {{Dedication}}:
-->To TODD
and Moira.
-->"For
MOIRA\\
For
your sakes, children, I hope this proves to be a work of fiction."
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* {{Dedication}}: To Harrison's children, Todd and Moira.
-->"For your sakes, children, I hope this proves to be a work of fiction."
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When a wealthy racketeer named "Big Mike" is killed, NYPD detective Andy Rusch is assigned to investigate the murder--a daunting task, in a city of 35 million inhabitants. Rusch finds himself getting romantically involved with the dead man's concubine, Shirl. Meanwhile, the killer--a poor immigrant boy named Billy Chung--attempts to elude capture.

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When a wealthy racketeer named "Big Mike" is killed, NYPD detective Andy Rusch is assigned to investigate the murder--a murder -- a daunting task, in a city of 35 million inhabitants. Rusch finds himself getting romantically involved with the dead murdered man's concubine, Shirl. Meanwhile, the killer--a killer -- a poor immigrant boy named Billy Chung--attempts Chung -- attempts to elude capture.
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* SocietyMarchesOn: The book uses concern at overpopulation current to predict a grim future that in hindsight appears rather odd since the worst predictions didn't come to pass. Particularly in the U.S., where it's set, since it has yet to meet the population the book describes even two decades later (while this is ''far'' more than NYC's reached since).

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Per this ATT, reverting this to that pending formal name change.


* ClimateChange: Barely a page goes by without someone complaining about the ever-present humidity... in New York at winter time.


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* GlobalWarming: Barely a page goes by without someone complaining about the ever-present humidity... in New York at winter time.
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* WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture: Soylent, which is a portmanteau of "soy" and "lentil".

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* ElderAbuse: "Eldsters" are forcibly retired from work so younger people can have their position.



* GoldDigger: Shirl, Big Mike's former mistress, who hooks up with Andy only to leave him for someone wealtier.
* LighterAndSofter: Surprisingly yes, compared to the movie, if only mariginally, since things aren't ''quite'' as bad in the novel as they are there. At least not yet, since the movie is set about 20 years later.



%%* UsedFuture

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%%* UsedFuture* UsedFuture: We never get to see how the wealthy live, other than that they have access to "luxuries" like running water and fresh food, but everyone else is stuck using decades-old tech that's falling apart, if it works at all. Andy's apartment has an old TV and a refrigerator hooked up to a bicycle generator.
* WeWillUseManualLabourInTheFuture: The few people who even have jobs anyway, there doesn't appear to be any sort of automation anymore.
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* AnAesop: The {{Aesop}} of the novel is that ''birth control should be legalized''. It's easy to forget how controversial a statement this once was. In the US, it had only been legalized nationally by the 1965 Supreme Court decision of ''Griswold vs. Connecticut'', or only ''two years'' before the book was released. Even then, it was illegal for unmarried couples to use birth control until 1972 (''Eisenstadt v. Baird''). Since then, along with abortion, better agricultural techniques, medicine, etc. global population rates have dropped increasingly, especially in the most developed countries.
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It's set in the CrapsackWorld of [[BigApplesauce New York City]] in the (then) far-future year of 1999, beset by severe overpopulation and environmental collapse, where a bland artificial food called soylent (made from soy and lentils) is the best thing most people ever get to eat.

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It's set in the CrapsackWorld of [[BigApplesauce New York City]] in the (then) far-future year of 1999, a world beset by severe overpopulation and environmental collapse, where a bland artificial food called soylent (made from soy and lentils) is the best thing most people ever get to eat.

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