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* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: The reason that God abandons humanity and Hell takes over isn't because of deliberate malice or some great plan, but because a MegaCorp decided to clone Jesus Christ, just to see what would happen. As it turns out, what would happen is that their Christ clone would become TheAntichrist. Oops. [[spoiler: Of course, the truth is a lot more complicated.]]
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Salem's grandfather, Ted MacMillan, is directly responsible for the apocalypse and current state of the world, but his reasoning behind it is tragic. It turns out that he is in fact the biblical Cain, cursed eternally to always resurrect with all his memories so that he always knows the pain he's unwittingly inflicted upon all of his descendants. He tries over hundreds of generations to be a better person, but no matter how much good he does God has no interest in forgiving him. Eventually he becomes fed up with it and uses one reincarnation to bring about TheAntichrist in the hopes that he will end the world and Cain, along with his cursed descendants, will finally be able to rest. Instead, God simply locks the gates to Heaven and the Legions of Hell are able to conquer Earth. By the time Salem finds him, he's become TheAtoner, trying to save as many as he can from Demonic rule while biding his time before he can hopefully undo the damage he's done.]]
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* {{Cyborg}}: A very common sort of technology in the future but Reynolds is the only one with nanotechnological enhancements--even if they are centuries old.
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* {{Cyborg}}: A very common sort of technology in the future but Reynolds is the only one with nanotechnological enhancements--even if they are centuries old.
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* SpeaksInShoutOuts: Salem, especially in the first book. In fact, ''every'' protagonist in the first book. Shout outs and lampshades to every piece of popular pre-fall media can be found several times a ''page'' at points. This gets significantly downplayed from ''Flotsam Prison Blues'' onwards, but remains an important part of Salem's character [[spoiler: as a coping mechanism for his DarkAndTroubledPast]].
* SuperPrototype: A large amount of Salem's arsenal is comprised of forgotten prototypes, equipment of his own design, or a combination of the two. That he has his father's brain (and later [[spoiler: Nikola Tesla]]) to help with their design and operation is a bonus.
* SuperPrototype: A large amount of Salem's arsenal is comprised of forgotten prototypes, equipment of his own design, or a combination of the two. That he has his father's brain (and later [[spoiler: Nikola Tesla]]) to help with their design and operation is a bonus.
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* WeHaveReserves: Demonic tactics in the First Demon War consisted mostly of [[ZergRush zerg rushes]] with untrained melee troops against the far more technologically advanced human defenders. This worked enough to win the war, but ended up being subverted hard when the Lords of Hell realized they didn't have nearly the reserves they thought now that their forces were mortal. This is around when they actually started arming up with modern technology and training in proper military tactics.
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* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: After the Second Demon War, a Lord of Hell is congratulating a group of arch-traitors for their work in destroying human resistance on the eastern seaboard. Reynolds, [[spoiler: AKA Salem]], is given special compliments for indirectly killing so many humans, saying that he shows as much contempt for humanity as the Demons do. Reynolds, who acted out of pragmatism and was trying to ''help'' most of those people, is clearly wrecked by the "compliment."
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* CrossoverCosmology Despite its Judeo-Christian premise, this appears to be the case. [[spoiler: Other gods are descendants of exiled but not damned angels.]]
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* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: The way the world is presently ruled is an elaborate heirarchy of these.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Salem is capable of showing up demon lords much-much smarter and more powerful than himself. [[spoiler: Because the Devil is helping him.]]
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Deep Ones are this. They are seemingly mindless forces of destruction and oblivion. Demons are more [[LawfulEvil Always Lawful Evil]] in that they are rules obsessed as well as determined to gain status through malevolent LoopholeAbuse.
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* AngelsDevilsAndSquid: Lovecraftian abominations called Deep Ones (but not THOSE Deep Ones) from before the Big Bang are part of the universe.
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* AngelsDemonsAndSquid: The Deep later emerge as a power rivaling God and seemingly mindless sealife-related monsters seeking to unmake Creation.
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* HornyDevils: All Lust Demons qualify for this by their very nature.
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* ''Flesh and Blood.''
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* TheAlcatraz: Flotsam Prison in the second novel is the worst prison in a world full of them.
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them. It is built in the middle of an island out of garbage, populated with the worst criminals demonkind has to offer, and is run by a nightmarish sadist.
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* ArmsDealer: Reynolds, the worst human alive. [[spoiler: A.K.A Salem's past self]]
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* ArmsDealer: Reynolds, the worst human alive.alive, sells weapons to both demons as well as anti-demon forces throughout the apocalypse. [[spoiler: A.K.A Salem's past self]]
* BigBadWannabe: Abraxes thinks he's the EvilOverlord but he's really just a StarterVillain. [[spoiler: Despite the fact he's a powerful demon lord, he ends up killed at the end of book one.]]
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* ClassicalAntihero: Salem really doesn't want to be TheHero.
* CoolOldGuy: Grimm, who serves as TheObiWan.
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* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Ricky AKA Satan is behind most of the events in the series.series. In addition to manipulating all of the demonic factions against one another, he's also involved in other pantheons as Loki and the Horned God. He even says that Salem couldn't even understand his we of manipulation]]
* CityOfAdventure: New Golgotha is a center of the demonic empire. It is a {{Cyberpunk}} {{Dystopia}} with the poor living on the bottom and the city's demonic masters living at the top of skyscrapers.
* ClassicalAntihero: Salem really doesn't want to be TheHero. He is lazy, irreverant, and concerned only with making enough money to get through the day. [[spoiler: He actually has a DarkAndTroubledPast that he's running away from and the above is just a cover.]]
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* CoolOldGuy: Grimm, who serves as TheObiWan. He encourages Salem to become involved with the world again as well as serve as LaResistance to the demonic overlords of the world.
* CityOfAdventure: New Golgotha is a center of the demonic empire. It is a {{Cyberpunk}} {{Dystopia}} with the poor living on the bottom and the city's demonic masters living at the top of skyscrapers.
* ClassicalAntihero: Salem really doesn't want to be TheHero. He is lazy, irreverant, and concerned only with making enough money to get through the day. [[spoiler: He actually has a DarkAndTroubledPast that he's running away from and the above is just a cover.]]
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* ''One Piece at a Time''
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The books share a universe with ''The Hammer of Witches'' series by the same author, set decades before the apocalypse.
* ''One Piece at a Time''
* ''Flesh and Blood.''
The books share a universe with ''The Hammer of Witches'' series by the same author, set decades before the apocalypse.
* AfterTheEnd: The Biblical Apocalypse has occurred but God didn't show up and the world has fallen under the sway of demons. It has also become a {{Cyberpunk}} dystopia within the remaining cities, the rest of the world degenerating into lawless wastelands.
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* DeadlyDecadentCourt: Demonkind has one of these with the Princes at the top and humanity at the bottom.
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* PhysicalGod: The gods of Norse mythology qualify [[spoiler: and some showw up.]] All of the supernatural beings are like this, though.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Not uncommon in the series with [[spoiler: Gha'aliss]] suffering a particularly nasty dismemberment.
* {{Cyborg}}: A very common sort of technology in the future but Reynolds is the only one with nanotechnological enhancements--even if they are centuries old.
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* EvilVersusOblivion: The Deep Ones are enemies of demons and vice versa. The Deep Ones want to eradicate the universe while demons just want to rule it.
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* UrbanFantasy: Demons, technology, crime, and sorcery.
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The ''Technomancer'' series is a {{Cyberpunk}} UrbanFantasy series by Michael Gibson. It is one hundred years after humans accidentally caused God to abandon the world and demons to take over the planet. Rather than simply destroy or enslave humanity, they've instead established a decadent technologically advanced civilization where humans sit at the bottom of the social order serving their wired infernal masters.
The ''Technomancer'' series is a {{Cyberpunk}} UrbanFantasy series by Michael Gibson. It is one hundred years after humans accidentally caused God to abandon the world and demons to take over the planet. Rather than simply destroy or enslave humanity, they've instead established a decadent technologically advanced civilization where humans sit at the bottom of the social order serving their wired infernal masters.
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The ''Technomancer'' series is a {{Cyberpunk}} UrbanFantasy series by Michael Gibson. It is one hundred and seventy-five years after humans accidentally caused God to abandon the world and demons to take over the planet. Rather than simply destroy or enslave humanity, they've instead established a decadent technologically advanced civilization where humans sit at the bottom of the social order serving their wired infernal masters.
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The Technomancer ''Technomancer'' series is a {{Cyberpunk}} UrbanFantasy series by Michael Gibson. It is one hundred years after humans accidentally caused God to abandon the world and demons to take over the planet. Rather than simply destroy or enslave humanity, they've instead established a decadent technologically advanced civilization where humans sit at the bottom of the social order serving their wired infernal masters.
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The Technomancer series is a {{Cyberpunk}} UrbanFantasy series by Michael Gibson. It is one hundred years after humans accidentally caused God to abandon the world and demons to take over the planet. Rather than simply destroy or enslave humanity, they've instead established a decadent technologically advanced civilization where humans sit at the bottom of the social order serving their wired infernal masters.
Salem is a Lightrunner, specialized couriers who do jobs for the demonic nobility or anyone else who can afford it. Recruited by a mysterious client named Grimm, he soon finds himself part of what little resistance remains against the new order. Whether he wants to be or not. Oh and TheManBehindTheMan may be the devil.
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* ''To Beat the Devil''
* ''Flotsam Prison Blues''
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* TheAlcatraz: Flotsam Prison in the second novel is the worst prison in a world full of them.
* AlmightyJanitor: The guy who runs Salem's favorite bar is [[spoiler: the Devil.]]
* AllMythsAreTrue: Despite its Judeo-Christian premise, this appears to be the case. [[spoiler: Other gods are descendants of exiled but not damned angels.]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Outsiders are this. Demons are more [[LawfulEvil Always Lawful Evil]]
* AngelsDemonsAndSquid: Lovecraftian abominations from before the Big Bang are part of the universe with Deep Ones being the least threatening.
* ApocalypseHow: The Earth was devastated in the demonic invasion but has now been rebuilt as a cyberpunk setting.
* ArmsDealer: Reynolds, the worst human alive. [[spoiler: A.K.A Salem's past self]]
* BigBadWannabe: Abraxes thinks he's the EvilOverlord but he's really just a StarterVillain.
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Satan is behind most of the events in the series.]]
* ClassicalAntihero: Salem really doesn't want to be TheHero.
* CoolOldGuy: Grimm, who serves as TheObiWan.
* CrapsackWorld: The world is ruled by demons, humans are the underclass, and nothing new has been on the television for a century.
* CreativeSterility: Since the demonic invasion, no new media has been created or art. [[spoiler: This is because no human souls have been created and inspiration is absent without God's light.]]
* CurbStompBattle: Averted when humanity was conquered by demons. It turns out technology was able to hold the infernal hordes at bay for a time. Eventually, the fact their enemies were immortal caught up with them, though.
* {{Cyberpunk}}: A bunch of antiheroes versus the demon-ruled technological dystopia of Earth.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Salem acts like a teenager despite the fact he's over a hundred years old. [[spoiler: This is because he has created his current persona to escape his past as an ArmsDealer and TheQuisling.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Just about everyone in the book, making it a WorldOfSnark.
* TheDevil: Was overthrown by his own archdemons and demon lords after God left. [[spoiler: He has been plotting his return ever since.]]
* DevilButNoGod: Because God left.
* FeudalFuture: Demons haven't really adjusted to the times except technologically and have divided up the Earth underneath the Archdemons.
* FirstPersonSmartass: Salem spends 90% of his time making wisecracks.
* HaveYouSeenMyGod: God has left reality [[spoiler: in anger over humans cloning Jesus.]]
* HellOnEarth: Demons have evacuated Hell and now rule Earth.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: They're vicious human hating things which blame humanity for sending God away.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Demons are a variety of races which exist in a feudal structure over humanity but suffer from CreativeSterility.
* PhysicalGod: The gods of Norse mythology qualify [[spoiler: and some showw up.]] All of the supernatural beings are like this, though.
* TheQuisling: Almost all of humanity is now collaborating with the demons. It was this or extinction. [[spoiler: Salem was one of the worst as Reynolds the arms dealer.]]
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: The Devil arranged for the death of Abraxes as part of his long-running plan to avenge his overthrow. Salem and company were just his tools for it.]]
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Salem is a Lightrunner, specialized couriers who do jobs for the demonic nobility or anyone else who can afford it. Recruited by a mysterious client named Grimm, he soon finds himself part of what little resistance remains against the new order. Whether he wants to be or not. Oh and TheManBehindTheMan may be the devil.
The novel series consists of:
* ''To Beat the Devil''
* ''Flotsam Prison Blues''
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This series contains the following tropes:
* TheAlcatraz: Flotsam Prison in the second novel is the worst prison in a world full of them.
* AlmightyJanitor: The guy who runs Salem's favorite bar is [[spoiler: the Devil.]]
* AllMythsAreTrue: Despite its Judeo-Christian premise, this appears to be the case. [[spoiler: Other gods are descendants of exiled but not damned angels.]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Outsiders are this. Demons are more [[LawfulEvil Always Lawful Evil]]
* AngelsDemonsAndSquid: Lovecraftian abominations from before the Big Bang are part of the universe with Deep Ones being the least threatening.
* ApocalypseHow: The Earth was devastated in the demonic invasion but has now been rebuilt as a cyberpunk setting.
* ArmsDealer: Reynolds, the worst human alive. [[spoiler: A.K.A Salem's past self]]
* BigBadWannabe: Abraxes thinks he's the EvilOverlord but he's really just a StarterVillain.
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Satan is behind most of the events in the series.]]
* ClassicalAntihero: Salem really doesn't want to be TheHero.
* CoolOldGuy: Grimm, who serves as TheObiWan.
* CrapsackWorld: The world is ruled by demons, humans are the underclass, and nothing new has been on the television for a century.
* CreativeSterility: Since the demonic invasion, no new media has been created or art. [[spoiler: This is because no human souls have been created and inspiration is absent without God's light.]]
* CurbStompBattle: Averted when humanity was conquered by demons. It turns out technology was able to hold the infernal hordes at bay for a time. Eventually, the fact their enemies were immortal caught up with them, though.
* {{Cyberpunk}}: A bunch of antiheroes versus the demon-ruled technological dystopia of Earth.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Salem acts like a teenager despite the fact he's over a hundred years old. [[spoiler: This is because he has created his current persona to escape his past as an ArmsDealer and TheQuisling.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Just about everyone in the book, making it a WorldOfSnark.
* TheDevil: Was overthrown by his own archdemons and demon lords after God left. [[spoiler: He has been plotting his return ever since.]]
* DevilButNoGod: Because God left.
* FeudalFuture: Demons haven't really adjusted to the times except technologically and have divided up the Earth underneath the Archdemons.
* FirstPersonSmartass: Salem spends 90% of his time making wisecracks.
* HaveYouSeenMyGod: God has left reality [[spoiler: in anger over humans cloning Jesus.]]
* HellOnEarth: Demons have evacuated Hell and now rule Earth.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: They're vicious human hating things which blame humanity for sending God away.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Demons are a variety of races which exist in a feudal structure over humanity but suffer from CreativeSterility.
* PhysicalGod: The gods of Norse mythology qualify [[spoiler: and some showw up.]] All of the supernatural beings are like this, though.
* TheQuisling: Almost all of humanity is now collaborating with the demons. It was this or extinction. [[spoiler: Salem was one of the worst as Reynolds the arms dealer.]]
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: The Devil arranged for the death of Abraxes as part of his long-running plan to avenge his overthrow. Salem and company were just his tools for it.]]
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