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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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