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13	''Far Rainbow'' (Russian: "Далёкая Радуга", alternate translation: ''Distant Rainbow'') is the third novel by the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers to be set in the Literature/NoonUniverse. It is extremely depressing and was directly inspired by the 1959 film adaptation of the PostApocalyptic novel ''Literature/OnTheBeach'', which the Stugatskys saw in 1962 and were devastated by.
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15	Rainbow is a lush green planet far away from Earth, which is one big test ground for physicists. Their recent research is about [[TeleportersAndTransporters 0-T, a teleportation technique]]. Besides them, the planet is inhabited by their families, a couple of escapists, and few artists. When one of the experiments [[GoneHorriblyWrong backfires]], the whole planet is threatened by the deadly Wave...
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17	!!Tropes found in the novel:
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19	%% * AdvancingWallOfDoom: The Wave
20	* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler: Class 5: all organics on the whole planet are going to die!]]
21	%% * ApocalypticLog: The protagonists make one, so the tragedy won't be repeated.
22	%% * ChildrenAreInnocent: [[spoiler: And thus deserve to be saved.]]
23	%% * CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Camillo.
24	%% * DoNotGoGentle: People continue to do useful things during the Wave's approach.
25	* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:The entire adult population of the planet]] ends up doing it in the end. The cake definitely goes to the intended first human 0-T tester team, who swim into the Wave of their own accord ''[[DyingMomentOfAwesome while singing]]''.
26	%% * FailsafeFailure: "Charibdas"
27	* FictionalPainting: The painting "Wind", the MagnumOpus of a famous artist visiting the title planet, is the only inanimate object transported off the planet before it is devastated by the Wave.
28	%% * ForScience: Motivates many of the protagonists.
29	%% * GoneHorriblyWrong: The Wave.
30	%% * IgnoredExpert: Camillo.
31	%% * ImmortalLifeIsCheap: Camillo+.
32	* ImmortalityHurts: Camillo, both literally and emotionally -- [[spoiler:"I have risen from the dead thrice today. It hurt a lot every time. [...] Soon, I will raise from the dead for the fourth time, all alone on a dead planet covered by ash and snow."]].
33	%% * LoveMakesYouEvil: Robert, who [[spoiler: leaves a couple of children behind.]]
34	%% * SadisticChoice
35	* ShootTheShaggyDog: Robert. Neither his heroics nor his [[spoiler: betrayal of children (he chooses to leave them behind to save the girl he loves)]] matter, since everyone is going to die anyway.
36	* SuicideBySea: In the bleak ending, the Tester Group swims to their deaths into the approaching Wave (a colossal wall of negative energy spawned by a scientific experiment Gone Horribly Wrong) while singing, rather than wait passively for it on the coast.
37	%% * TeleportersAndTransporters: The research is about them.
38	%% * UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: Gorbovsky]] appears in latter novels, but the Rainbow incident is not discussed.
39	%% * YouShallNotPass: Done by Robert (and [[spoiler: Patrick]]) with regards to the Wave.
40	* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: They know about the Wave, yet the planet has no escape ships ready? Were it not for "Tariel", ''nobody'' would survive!
41	%% * YouAreTooLate: The "Strela".

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