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* HilariousInHindsight:
** In Bellamy's vision of the year 2000, information is carried long-distance via a series of pneumatic tubes. In 2006, Alaskan senator Ted Stevens was met with derision for stating that the internet is "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/series-of-tubes a series of tubes]]".
** The author's name is '''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Bella]]'''my. This wouldn't have been all that notable on its own until the publication of ''Literature/LifeAndDeathTwilightReimagined'', where the RuleSixtyThree counterpart to Edward is called... Edythe.
* ValuesDissonance: Obviously the idea that a command economy would be the best thing ever is controversial enough, given the record of communist states in the actual 20th century. The novel also claims that crimes are just the result of "atavism" (i.e. hereditary throwback traits). People with them are "treated in the hospitals." Just what treatment is unclear, but sterilization would seem to be the most probable, given that this was advocated by the eugenics movement when Bellamy lived (and later became law in twenty seven US states). This was likely based on theories such as those of Italian criminologist and physician Cesara Lombroso's, who believed many criminals were such "atavisms" (of course, they have been [[ScienceMarchesOn long since debunked]]).
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