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* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Happens a lot once the Swarm starts running out of food]]
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: [[spoiler: The Pingers]]
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** Teenaged activist and target of an assassination attempt Camila is Malala Yousafzai
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: Early in the book, some people decide to wait out the Hard Rain underwater or underground. [[spoiler: Near the ending, it turns out the underground group has survived for 5000 years and it is revealed the underwater effort might have been as big as the space effort, with elaborate plans and multiple habitats]].
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* NextSundayAD: The various private and national space programs featured at the start of the novel are more or less identical to their real world counterparts at the time of publication. [[spoiler: As the [[DeathFromAbove Hard Rain]] approaches, the sheer resources and effort devoted to the Cloud Ark program make it seem more like [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture Twenty Minutes into the Future]]. The third part of the book is set approximately 5,000 years after that.]]]]
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* SpaceshipSlingshotStunt: The ''New Caird'' has to do a few of those.
* TransplantedHumans: 5,000 years after the moon blew up, humans have evolved into several different races, with varying degrees of similarity to "rootstock" humans.
* ZeroGSpot: Quite common (and kind of necessary...).
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'''Seveneves''' is a novel by Creator/NealStephenson describing humanity's efforts to deal with a {{Detonation Moon}} of unknown origin.
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origin and the ensuing 5,000 years of biological, societal, cultural, and technological change.
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