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* ColdWar: Any warring nations have to settle for this state of affairs, since the worldwide ResurrectiveImmortality brings back almost every soldier who dies on the battlefield.
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* UsefulNotes/{{Dice}}: Valdez carries a set of three ten-sided dice in order to explain his job to others. They are used to illustrate the odds of a failed "dispatch" (1 in 1000).
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Mason Schilling is a corrupt dispatcher heavily involved in illicit dealings with illegal fight clubs, but he's disgusted when a fighter kills the judge [[DisproportionateRetribution for allegedly breaking the rules]].
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In 2020, Scalzi released a sequel titled ''Murder by Other Means'', continuing the story of Tony Valdez. The sequel picks up [[TimeSkip two years after the first novella]], with Tony hit by hard times thanks to budget cuts by the city of Chicago, with many of his regular gigs drying up. Tony does an off-the-books job for some quick cash and goes to deposit the money to his bank when the bank is robbed. But the robbery goes sour when the robbers escape plan - killing each other to zip back home - ends with a dead body instead.
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In 2020, Scalzi released a sequel titled ''Murder by Other Means'', continuing the story of Tony Valdez. The sequel picks up [[TimeSkip two years after the first novella]], with Tony hit by hard times thanks to budget cuts by the city of Chicago, with many of his regular gigs drying up. Tony does an off-the-books job for some quick cash and goes to deposit the money to his bank when the bank is robbed. But the robbery goes sour when the robbers robbers' escape plan - killing each other to zip back home - ends with a dead body instead.
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* AmoralAttorney: Barnes in the sequel. He hires Tony to kill a healthy man off the books so that ResurrectiveImmortality will transport him back to his home on another continent in time for a tight business deal. This is perfectly true, but Barnes leaves out how the client is also a wanted white-collar criminal who needs to escape the authorities. [[spoiler:He also organizes a bank robbery and uses threats of horrific torture, ruin and disgrace to drive his accomplices and two completely innocent people to suicide, while being quite smug about it.]]
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* ColdWar: Any warring nations have to settle for this state of affairs, since the worldwide ResurrectiveImmortality brings back almost every soldier who dies on the battlefield.
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* DivorceRequiresDeath: The first person to experience ResurrectiveImmortality is pushed off a cliff by his wife because she's having an affair but can't summon the nerve to leave him.
