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26th Mar '13 8:37:51 PM Xtifr

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''Sometimes Never: A Fable for Supermen'' is a 1948 Science Fiction novel by Creator/RoaldDahl. It is the first novel after WorldWarII to mention the atomic bomb and the end of the world. The plot is divided into two parts, the wartime adventure of RAF pilot Peternip during the [[TheHomeFront Battle Of Britain]] and the plan of the Gremlin Leader to outlive humanity in an alternative ColdWar.
It is the most obscure of Dahl's books, but still can be found in some libraries in the U.S and Britain.
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!!This book contains the following tropes:

* AlternateHistory
* ApocalypseHow
* CrapsackWorld: If you are not a Gremlin after the shift.
* DecoyProtagonist: The humans.
* EverybodysDeadDave: The Gremlin leader finds out if there's no humans, no one can imagine Gremlins, and so they cease to exist. Poof.
* {{Expy}}: There is a charater named Stuffy who's completely an Expy of a character with the same name from Dahl's previous children-friendly Gremlin book, ''The Gremlins''. It's the same with the other two protagonists: Peternip is Gus, Progboot is Jamface.
** In fact, this book itself is a DarkerAndEdgier version of it.
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: In the book, there is a kind of virus that targeted only designated victims.
* KillEmAll: See above. Roald Dahl had outdone Tomino!
* MythologyGag: The main food of the gremlins are snozzberries. They are later referred in CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory and MyUncleOswald. This word means "head of dick" in the latter.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Roald Dahl is in fact the first person to suggest that radiation can make people mutate into zombies. Though he is NotUsingTheZWord, just wrote that people became mad when they are exposed to radiation. Later, there are some virus developed to drive people mad and bite each other untill death.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The Gremlin Leader did create a peaceful world without class, money or machinery among gremlins after there are no humans.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: Dahl himself had been a fighter pilot in the Second World War a few years earlier.
** Though not a nuclear scientist or politician.
* YouFailNuclearPhysicsForever: Completely averted. Roald Dahl describes a nuclear blast in a suprisingly detailed and graphic way and [[TooMuchInformation how it "broiled" the protagonist]] [[{{Squick}} alive]]. Also, he predicted the inventing of "dirty" neutron bombs.

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21st Mar '13 12:51:59 AM teslashark

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1st Dec '12 10:52:31 AM Tarlonniel

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Not the trope.

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21st Oct '12 8:31:27 PM Aiguille

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