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''Not Forgetting The Whale'' is a 2015 dystopian novel by John Ironmonger. Joe Haak, a young mathematician who worked for an investment banking, is one day found naked at the shore of the quaint coast town of St. Piran. Its citizens save him and quickly include him into the community, as Joe doesn't seem to be too keen to leave. It is later told that Joe is a mathematician working as an analyst for a shorttrader department, where he programmed the prediction software ''Cassie''. Once his software predicts the imminent end of the world due to an oil crisis and a new flu stain, he starts hoarding food, not only for himself but for the entire village that so openly invited him to their midst, in order to survive the upcoming disaster.
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''Not Forgetting The Whale'' is a 2015 dystopian novel by John Ironmonger. Joe Haak, a young mathematician who worked for an investment banking, banking company, is one day found naked at the shore of the quaint coast coastal town of St. Piran. Its citizens save him and quickly include him into the community, as Joe doesn't seem to be too keen to leave. It is later told that Joe is a mathematician working as an analyst for a shorttrader short trader department, where he programmed the his prediction software software, ''Cassie''. Once his software predicts the imminent end of the world due to an oil crisis and a new flu stain, strain, he starts hoarding food, not only for himself but for the entire village that so openly invited him to their midst, in order to survive the upcoming disaster.
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* AnimalMetaphor: The Whale. Whales are often associated with Life and Death, and the whale of the story shows both possible outcomes to an unexpected situation. [[spoiler:The first time it strands and is helpless, it is saved; The second time, it dies.]]
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* AnimalMetaphor: The Whale. Whales are often associated with Life and Death, and the whale of the story shows both possible outcomes to of an unexpected situation. [[spoiler:The first time it strands and is helpless, it is saved; The second time, it dies.]]
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* ContaminationSituation: Joe and Alvin Hocking bring the infected and highly contageous Janie Coverdale to the church tower [[spoiler:before her death, therefore being at the risk of being infected themselves. Joe catches the flu and almost dies from it.]]
* CrazyPrepared: In the eye of the (potentially) upcoming crisis, Joe doesn't simply hoard food for himself, but for the entire village of 308 people - we're talking about ''tons'' of food and hygiene articles stored. They even made it to the national TV.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Joe Haak (and by extension, his boss) first come across as a typical MorallyBankruptBanker who makes for a living by betting on falling assets of companies, dooming their employees and shareholders in the process. As the story progresses, this is more and more deconstructed.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: All the book there is a tension between [[spoiler:Joe and Polly Hocking, but she does not leave her husband and rejects Joe.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: During their quarantine together in the church tower, Reverend Alvin Hocking blames Joe not to have thought his food hoarding plan through: after all, a village full of farmers and fishermen can very well be self-sufficient.
* CrazyPrepared: In the eye of the (potentially) upcoming crisis, Joe doesn't simply hoard food for himself, but for the entire village of 308 people - we're talking about ''tons'' of food and hygiene articles stored. They even made it to the national TV.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Joe Haak (and by extension, his boss) first come across as a typical MorallyBankruptBanker who makes for a living by betting on falling assets of companies, dooming their employees and shareholders in the process. As the story progresses, this is more and more deconstructed.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: All the book there is a tension between [[spoiler:Joe and Polly Hocking, but she does not leave her husband and rejects Joe.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: During their quarantine together in the church tower, Reverend Alvin Hocking blames Joe not to have thought his food hoarding plan through: after all, a village full of farmers and fishermen can very well be self-sufficient.
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* ContaminationSituation: Joe and Alvin Hocking bring the infected and highly contageous contagious Janie Coverdale to the church tower [[spoiler:before her death, therefore being at the risk of being infected themselves. Joe catches the flu and almost dies from it.]]
* CrazyPrepared: In the eye of the (potentially) upcoming crisis, Joe doesn't simply hoard food for himself, but for the entire village of 308 people - we're talking about ''tons'' of food and hygiene articles stored. They even made it tothe national TV.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Joe Haak (and by extension, his boss) first come across as a typical MorallyBankruptBanker who makesfor a living by betting on falling assets of companies, dooming their employees and shareholders in the process. As the story progresses, this is more and more deconstructed.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: All the book there isa tension between [[spoiler:Joe and Polly Hocking, but she does not leave her husband and rejects Joe.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: During their quarantine together in the church tower, Reverend Alvin Hocking blames Joe for notto have having thought his food hoarding plan through: after through. After all, a village full of farmers and fishermen can very well be self-sufficient.
* CrazyPrepared: In the eye of the (potentially) upcoming crisis, Joe doesn't simply hoard food for himself, but for the entire village of 308 people - we're talking about ''tons'' of food and hygiene articles stored. They even made it to
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Joe Haak (and by extension, his boss) first come across as a typical MorallyBankruptBanker who makes
* DidNotGetTheGirl: All the book there is
* DidntThinkThisThrough: During their quarantine together in the church tower, Reverend Alvin Hocking blames Joe for not
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* ForWantOfANail: The shorttraders and Joe's forecasting AI "Cassie" exploit this trope. An example from chapter 8: A storm disturbed the banana harvest on the Bahamas, which lowers the profit of the Canadian banana vendor, who then don't buy new ships from a Korean boatyard, who then don't take over an Estonian steel manufacturer. Therefore, the traders "short Estonian steel" due to the tropical storm.
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* ForWantOfANail: The shorttraders short traders and Joe's forecasting AI "Cassie" exploit this trope. An example from chapter 8: A storm disturbed the banana harvest on in the Bahamas, which lowers the profit of the Canadian banana vendor, who then don't doesn't buy new ships from a Korean boatyard, who then don't doesn't take over an Estonian steel manufacturer. Therefore, the traders "short Estonian steel" due to the tropical storm.
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* HumansAreBastards: Deconstructed. The first two parts of the book revolve around the assumption that humans will attack one another as soon as a crisis happens. The third part shows [[spoiler:that not only in St. Piran, but everywhere in the UK, people have helped each other.]]
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* HumansAreBastards: Deconstructed. The first two parts of the book revolve around the assumption that humans will attack one another as soon as a crisis happens. The third part shows [[spoiler:that not only in St. Piran, Piran but everywhere in the UK, people have helped each other.]]
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* {{Lockdown}}: Not ordered by the (disfunctional) government, but the citizens of St. Piran themselves decide to lock themselves from the rest of the world once the Flu hits Cornwall.
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* {{Lockdown}}: Not ordered by the (disfunctional) (dysfunctional) government, but the citizens of St. Piran themselves decide to lock themselves from the rest of the world once the Flu hits Cornwall.
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* OneDropRule: Aminata is consistently referred to as "African" or "from Senegal". Close to the end it is revealed that her mother is actually from Cornwall.
* PhilosophicalNovel: The novel deals heavily with various philosophic and religious schools revolving around the question how humans are acting in an age of calamity.
* ThePlague: The world is hit by a flu strain that kills up to 20 % of people who are infected with it, which quickly develops to a pandemic.
* PhilosophicalNovel: The novel deals heavily with various philosophic and religious schools revolving around the question how humans are acting in an age of calamity.
* ThePlague: The world is hit by a flu strain that kills up to 20 % of people who are infected with it, which quickly develops to a pandemic.
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* OneDropRule: Aminata is consistently referred to as "African" or "from Senegal". Close to the end end, it is revealed that her mother is actually from Cornwall.
* PhilosophicalNovel: The novel deals heavily with various philosophic and religious schools revolving around the question of how humans are acting in an age of calamity.
* ThePlague: The world is hit by a flu strain that kills up to 20 % of people who are infected with it, which quickly developsto into a pandemic.
* PhilosophicalNovel: The novel deals heavily with various philosophic and religious schools revolving around the question of how humans are acting in an age of calamity.
* ThePlague: The world is hit by a flu strain that kills up to 20 % of people who are infected with it, which quickly develops
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* PortTown: The coastal village of St. Piran is the main setting of the novel. It it so remote and isolated that Joe uses it as his RunawayHideaway.
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* PortTown: The coastal village of St. Piran is the main setting of the novel. It it is so remote and isolated that Joe uses it as his RunawayHideaway.
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** In a part of the book, Joe and his boss discuss the ''Leviathan'' by Thomas Hobbes, and its implications for society.
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** In a part of the book, Joe and his boss discuss the ''Leviathan'' by Thomas Hobbes, Hobbes and its implications for society.
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* SkinnyDipping: The novel starts with Joe being found naked and unconcious at the beach of St. Piran. It is later revealed that the night before he had felt a strong urge to go swimming naked in the Atlantic.
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* SkinnyDipping: The novel starts with Joe being found naked and unconcious unconscious at the beach of St. Piran. It is later revealed that the night before he had felt a strong urge to go swimming naked in the Atlantic.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The novel was released in 2015, a mere four years before the world was indeed hit by a [[UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic global pandemic of disastrous extent]]. Even worse: Joe describes how we should fear the flu and not "viruses like SARS".
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* SkinnyDipping: The novel starts with Joe being found naked and unconcious at the beach of St. Piran. It is later revealed that the night before he had felt a strong urge to go swimming naked in the Atlantic.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: During their quarantine together in the church tower, Reverend Alvin Hocking blames Joe not to have thought his food hoarding plan through: after all, a village full of farmers and fishermen can very well be self-sufficient.
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* PlagueEpisode: Chapter XXX describes Joe's symptoms after getting the flu in much detail.
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* PlagueEpisode: Chapter XXX 24 describes Joe's symptoms after getting the flu in much detail.
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* NoBisexuals: Lampshaded near the end by [[Jeremy.]]
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* NoBisexuals: Lampshaded near the end by [[Jeremy.[[spoiler:Jeremy.]]
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* TheImmodestOrgasm: Aminata, who according to various townspeople is so loud in bed that the whole town could hear her.
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* SignatureScent: Elizabeth Brooks, who everyone describes as "Smelling like fish".
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* NoBisexuals: Lampshaded near the end by [[Jeremy.]]
---> "Being gay is hard enough in a town like St. Piran, how long do you think it would have taken to explain the concept of bisexuality?"
---> "Being gay is hard enough in a town like St. Piran, how long do you think it would have taken to explain the concept of bisexuality?"
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* ForWantOfANail: The shorttraders and Joe's forecasting AI "Cassie" exploit this trope. An example from chapter 8: A storm disturbed the banana harvest, which lowers the profit of the Canadian banana vendor, who then don't buy new ships from a Korean boatyard, who then don't take over an Estonian steel manufacturer.
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* ForWantOfANail: The shorttraders and Joe's forecasting AI "Cassie" exploit this trope. An example from chapter 8: A storm disturbed the banana harvest, harvest on the Bahamas, which lowers the profit of the Canadian banana vendor, who then don't buy new ships from a Korean boatyard, who then don't take over an Estonian steel manufacturer.manufacturer. Therefore, the traders "short Estonian steel" due to the tropical storm.
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''Not Forgetting The Whale'' is a 2015 dystopian novel by John Ironmonger. Joe Haak, a young mathematician who worked for an investment banking, is one day found naked at the shore of the quaint coast town of St. Piran. Its citizens save him and quickly include him into the community, as Joe doesn't seem to be too keen to leave. It is later told that Joe is a mathematician working as an analyst for a shorttrader department, where he programmed the prediction software ''Cassie''. Once his software predicts the imminent end of the world due to an oil crisis and a new flu stain, he starts hoarding food, not only for himself but for the entire village that so openly invited him to their midst, in order to survive the upcoming disaster.
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!!This novel provides examples of:
* AllUpToYou: Joe and his AI "Cassie" are the only ones to know about the upcoming calamity, so he is the only one who can prepare for it.
* AnimalMetaphor: The Whale. Whales are often associated with Life and Death, and the whale of the story shows both possible outcomes to an unexpected situation. [[spoiler:The first time it strands and is helpless, it is saved; The second time, it dies.]]
* AnimalMotifs: The Whale that the novel is named after. It strikes the plot by saving Joe from dying and is stranded twice, once he can be saved.
* AuthorAvatar: Aminata was born in Africa to an African father and a Cornwallian mother, just like the author John Ironmonger.
* BittersweetEnding: The flu spares St. Piran and nobody starves, but [[spoiler:Joe leaves the village and all his friends, possibly forever, and the whale is dead.]]
* CentralTheme: The behaviors of people in an age of catastrophe.
* ContaminationSituation: Joe and Alvin Hocking bring the infected and highly contageous Janie Coverdale to the church tower [[spoiler:before her death, therefore being at the risk of being infected themselves. Joe catches the flu and almost dies from it.]]
* CrazyPrepared: In the eye of the (potentially) upcoming crisis, Joe doesn't simply hoard food for himself, but for the entire village of 308 people - we're talking about ''tons'' of food and hygiene articles stored. They even made it to the national TV.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Joe Haak (and by extension, his boss) first come across as a typical MorallyBankruptBanker who makes for a living by betting on falling assets of companies, dooming their employees and shareholders in the process. As the story progresses, this is more and more deconstructed.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: All the book there is a tension between [[spoiler:Joe and Polly Hocking, but she does not leave her husband and rejects Joe.]]
* HardTruthAesop: Lew Kaufmann delivers one when he compares modern society to the Rapanui from Easter Island. According to him, they used their main resource wood so much that the whole island became devoid of trees. This eventually caused the Rapanui to die out. Joe's boss compares this to modern society's dependency on oil.
* ForWantOfANail: The shorttraders and Joe's forecasting AI "Cassie" exploit this trope. An example from chapter 8: A storm disturbed the banana harvest, which lowers the profit of the Canadian banana vendor, who then don't buy new ships from a Korean boatyard, who then don't take over an Estonian steel manufacturer.
* HumansAreBastards: Deconstructed. The first two parts of the book revolve around the assumption that humans will attack one another as soon as a crisis happens. The third part shows [[spoiler:that not only in St. Piran, but everywhere in the UK, people have helped each other.]]
* JustBeforeTheEnd: Lew Kaufmann believes that the end is imminent, and acts accordingly. Joe later follows after he reads Cassie's predictions.
* {{Lockdown}}: Not ordered by the (disfunctional) government, but the citizens of St. Piran themselves decide to lock themselves from the rest of the world once the Flu hits Cornwall.
* NoAntagonist: Except for the flu itself, there is no truly evil character.
* OneDropRule: Aminata is consistently referred to as "African" or "from Senegal". Close to the end it is revealed that her mother is actually from Cornwall.
* PhilosophicalNovel: The novel deals heavily with various philosophic and religious schools revolving around the question how humans are acting in an age of calamity.
* ThePlague: The world is hit by a flu strain that kills up to 20 % of people who are infected with it, which quickly develops to a pandemic.
* PlagueEpisode: Chapter XXX describes Joe's symptoms after getting the flu in much detail.
* PoliceAreUseless: Lampshaded by Jeremy Melon.
---> 'When was the last time that a policeperson came to St. Piran?'
* PortTown: The coastal village of St. Piran is the main setting of the novel. It it so remote and isolated that Joe uses it as his RunawayHideaway.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Reverend Alvin Hocking gives one to Joe when they are isolated together in the church tower, saying the problem with "people like him" is that they think money can solve everything.
* ShoutOut:
** To the TV show ''Series/RedDwarf'': ''Every society is but three full meals away from anarchy.''
** In a part of the book, Joe and his boss discuss the ''Leviathan'' by Thomas Hobbes, and its implications for society.
* SleepingWithTheBoss: In the backstory, Joe had a one-time sexual encounter with his supervisor Janie Coverdale in her office.
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''Not Forgetting The Whale'' is a 2015 dystopian novel by John Ironmonger. Joe Haak, a young mathematician who worked for an investment banking, is one day found naked at the shore of the quaint coast town of St. Piran. Its citizens save him and quickly include him into the community, as Joe doesn't seem to be too keen to leave. It is later told that Joe is a mathematician working as an analyst for a shorttrader department, where he programmed the prediction software ''Cassie''. Once his software predicts the imminent end of the world due to an oil crisis and a new flu stain, he starts hoarding food, not only for himself but for the entire village that so openly invited him to their midst, in order to survive the upcoming disaster.
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!!This novel provides examples of:
* AllUpToYou: Joe and his AI "Cassie" are the only ones to know about the upcoming calamity, so he is the only one who can prepare for it.
* AnimalMetaphor: The Whale. Whales are often associated with Life and Death, and the whale of the story shows both possible outcomes to an unexpected situation. [[spoiler:The first time it strands and is helpless, it is saved; The second time, it dies.]]
* AnimalMotifs: The Whale that the novel is named after. It strikes the plot by saving Joe from dying and is stranded twice, once he can be saved.
* AuthorAvatar: Aminata was born in Africa to an African father and a Cornwallian mother, just like the author John Ironmonger.
* BittersweetEnding: The flu spares St. Piran and nobody starves, but [[spoiler:Joe leaves the village and all his friends, possibly forever, and the whale is dead.]]
* CentralTheme: The behaviors of people in an age of catastrophe.
* ContaminationSituation: Joe and Alvin Hocking bring the infected and highly contageous Janie Coverdale to the church tower [[spoiler:before her death, therefore being at the risk of being infected themselves. Joe catches the flu and almost dies from it.]]
* CrazyPrepared: In the eye of the (potentially) upcoming crisis, Joe doesn't simply hoard food for himself, but for the entire village of 308 people - we're talking about ''tons'' of food and hygiene articles stored. They even made it to the national TV.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Joe Haak (and by extension, his boss) first come across as a typical MorallyBankruptBanker who makes for a living by betting on falling assets of companies, dooming their employees and shareholders in the process. As the story progresses, this is more and more deconstructed.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: All the book there is a tension between [[spoiler:Joe and Polly Hocking, but she does not leave her husband and rejects Joe.]]
* HardTruthAesop: Lew Kaufmann delivers one when he compares modern society to the Rapanui from Easter Island. According to him, they used their main resource wood so much that the whole island became devoid of trees. This eventually caused the Rapanui to die out. Joe's boss compares this to modern society's dependency on oil.
* ForWantOfANail: The shorttraders and Joe's forecasting AI "Cassie" exploit this trope. An example from chapter 8: A storm disturbed the banana harvest, which lowers the profit of the Canadian banana vendor, who then don't buy new ships from a Korean boatyard, who then don't take over an Estonian steel manufacturer.
* HumansAreBastards: Deconstructed. The first two parts of the book revolve around the assumption that humans will attack one another as soon as a crisis happens. The third part shows [[spoiler:that not only in St. Piran, but everywhere in the UK, people have helped each other.]]
* JustBeforeTheEnd: Lew Kaufmann believes that the end is imminent, and acts accordingly. Joe later follows after he reads Cassie's predictions.
* {{Lockdown}}: Not ordered by the (disfunctional) government, but the citizens of St. Piran themselves decide to lock themselves from the rest of the world once the Flu hits Cornwall.
* NoAntagonist: Except for the flu itself, there is no truly evil character.
* OneDropRule: Aminata is consistently referred to as "African" or "from Senegal". Close to the end it is revealed that her mother is actually from Cornwall.
* PhilosophicalNovel: The novel deals heavily with various philosophic and religious schools revolving around the question how humans are acting in an age of calamity.
* ThePlague: The world is hit by a flu strain that kills up to 20 % of people who are infected with it, which quickly develops to a pandemic.
* PlagueEpisode: Chapter XXX describes Joe's symptoms after getting the flu in much detail.
* PoliceAreUseless: Lampshaded by Jeremy Melon.
---> 'When was the last time that a policeperson came to St. Piran?'
* PortTown: The coastal village of St. Piran is the main setting of the novel. It it so remote and isolated that Joe uses it as his RunawayHideaway.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Reverend Alvin Hocking gives one to Joe when they are isolated together in the church tower, saying the problem with "people like him" is that they think money can solve everything.
* ShoutOut:
** To the TV show ''Series/RedDwarf'': ''Every society is but three full meals away from anarchy.''
** In a part of the book, Joe and his boss discuss the ''Leviathan'' by Thomas Hobbes, and its implications for society.
* SleepingWithTheBoss: In the backstory, Joe had a one-time sexual encounter with his supervisor Janie Coverdale in her office.
