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* BigDumbObject: The spaceship which has captured Manhattan is over 100 kilometers in diameter.
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* CurseCutShort: A helicopter pilot is in the wrong place at the wrong time and:
-->The pilot hadn't even had time to utter the one word traditionally heard as black box recordings terminate.
-->The pilot hadn't even had time to utter the one word traditionally heard as black box recordings terminate.
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* InferredHolocaust: The water rushing into the huge hole Manhattan was taken from is bad for everyone in the connecting tunnels and anyone in boats and ferries.
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* RedShirt: Pretty much anyone from whose PointOfView we watch Manhattan get taken but doesn't end up going with it.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's far enough into the future from the publication date of 1993 that they have tiny memory disks and something mentioned in passing called a "[=VirtReal=] Simulation", but the World Trade Center is still standing and there's no mention of TheInternet.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's far enough into the future from the publication date of 1993 that they have tiny memory disks and something mentioned in passing called a "[=VirtReal=] Simulation", but the [[HarsherInHindsight World Trade Center is still standing standing]] and there's no mention of TheInternet.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's far enough into the future from the publication date of 1993 that they have tiny memory disks and something mentioned in passing called a "VirtReal "[=VirtReal=] Simulation", but the World Trade Center is still standing and there's no mention of TheInternet.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's far enough into the future from the publication date of 1993 that they have tiny memory disks and something mentioned in passing called a "VirtReal Simulation", but the World Trade Center is still standing and there's no mention of TheInternet.
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This novel by John E. Stith follows the unlucky residents and folks who happened to be visiting Manhattan that day as they are ripped from the earth, put in a giant spacecraft with a dome over top of them, provided electricity and "food" and pretty much left alone on a vast, interior plain dotted with other, distant domed cities. The novel deals with their efforts to discover why they have been taken.
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This novel by John E. Stith follows the unlucky residents and folks who happened to be visiting Manhattan that day as they are ripped from the earth, put in a giant spacecraft with a dome over top of them, provided electricity and "food" and pretty much left alone on a vast, interior plain dotted with other, distant domed distant, domed, obviously alien cities. The novel deals with their efforts to discover why they have been taken.
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* ShoutOut: (Possibly) to Superman's enemy Brainiac, who stole whole cities from planets for ransom.
**Or maybe to this famous Boston Album cover [[http://hymiesrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC000691.jpg]].
**Or maybe to this famous Boston Album cover [[http://hymiesrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/DSC000691.jpg]].
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* OneGenderRace: Averted, actually. [[spoiler: The Archies took one building from a planet, not realizing that the race segregated their genders by building. They all committed suicide.]]
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* OneGenderRace: Averted, actually. [[spoiler: The Archies took one building from a planet, not realizing that the race segregated their genders by building. They Having no females, they all eventually committed suicide.]]
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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Archies don't seem to be very interested in keeping an eye on the races they are abducting [[spoiler: to save from their own incompetence]], though to be fair they're on a bit of a rushed schedule.
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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Archies captors don't seem to be very interested in keeping an eye on the races they are abducting [[spoiler: to save from their own incompetence]], incompetence, though to be fair they're on a bit of a rushed schedule.]]
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* NoEnding: [[Spoiler: The BigBad is destroyed.]] Book ends the next page.
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* NoEnding: [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: The BigBad is destroyed.]] Book ends the next page.
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* DogFoodDiet: New York's captors provide something kind of like pet chow.
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* DogFoodDiet: New York's captors provide the humans something kind of like pet chow.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: One has to wonder what the alien race was ''thinking''.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: One has to wonder what the alien race was ''thinking''.See BigBad.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: One has to wonder what the alien race was ''thinking''.
* BigBad: [[spoiler: The Archies built a automated terraforming spacecraft which they can't stop - they can only run ahead of it and save small populations.]]
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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Archies don't seem to be very interested in keeping an eye on the races they are abduction [[spoiler: to save from their own incompetence]], though to be fair they're on a bit of a rushed schedule.
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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Archies don't seem to be very interested in keeping an eye on the races they are abduction abducting [[spoiler: to save from their own incompetence]], though to be fair they're on a bit of a rushed schedule.
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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Archies don't seem to be very interested in keeping an eye on the races they are abduction [[spoiler: to save from their own incompetence]], though to be fair they're on a bit of a rushed schedule.
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* OneGenderRace: Averted, actually. [[spolier: The Archies took one building from a planet, not realizing that the race segregated their genders by building. They all committed suicide.]]
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* OneGenderRace: Averted, actually. [[spolier: [[spoiler: The Archies took one building from a planet, not realizing that the race segregated their genders by building. They all committed suicide.]]
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* OneGenderRace: Averted, actually. [[spolier: The Archies took one building from a planet, not realizing that the race segregated their genders by building. They all committed suicide.]]
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* SensoryOverload: Electronic equipment is ''really loud'' to one of the other dome's races.
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* SensoryOverload: [[spoiler: Electronic equipment is ''really loud'' to one of the other dome's races.]]
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One sunny day aliens arrive, rip the island of Manhattan out of NewYorkCity, tuck it away in their spacecraft and leave.
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One sunny day aliens suddenly arrive, rip the island of Manhattan out of NewYorkCity, tuck it away in their spacecraft and leave.leave as quickly as they appeared.
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Not to be confused with The Manhattan Transfer, a jazz, swing, R&B and pop group founded in 1969.
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Not to be confused with The ''The'' Manhattan Transfer, a jazz, swing, R&B and pop group founded in 1969.
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[[quoteright:200:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/manhattan-transfer-john-e-stith-hardcover-cover-art_1665.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:200:Wheeeeeee!!!!]]
[[caption-width-right:200:Wheeeeeee!!!!]]
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Not to be confused with The Manhattan Transfer, a jazz, swing, R&B and pop group founded in 1969.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: One of the other races in the domed cities is found to have already committed mass suicide because the alien kidnappers grabbed an entire city of one gender.]]
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* StarfishAliens: Several kinds.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Richard]]
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One sunny day aliens arrive, rip the island of Manhattan out of NewYorkCity, tuck it away in their spacecraft and leave.
This novel by John E. Stith follows the unlucky residents and folks who happened to be visiting Manhattan that day as they are ripped from the earth, put in a giant spacecraft with a dome over top of them, provided electricity and "food" and pretty much left alone on a vast, interior plain dotted with other, distant domed cities. The novel deals with their efforts to discover why they have been taken.
!!Tropes in this book:
* CoverDrop: The cover shows the titular city encased in a dome and being lifted into the sky. Turns out this quite literally happens around chapter two.
* PlanetLooters: [[spoiler: but actually they mean well.]]
This novel by John E. Stith follows the unlucky residents and folks who happened to be visiting Manhattan that day as they are ripped from the earth, put in a giant spacecraft with a dome over top of them, provided electricity and "food" and pretty much left alone on a vast, interior plain dotted with other, distant domed cities. The novel deals with their efforts to discover why they have been taken.
!!Tropes in this book:
* CoverDrop: The cover shows the titular city encased in a dome and being lifted into the sky. Turns out this quite literally happens around chapter two.
* PlanetLooters: [[spoiler: but actually they mean well.]]
