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* WritersCannotDoMath: The human population is 75 billion, increasing by 4% per year. At that rate, they will hit the 200 billion limit in just 26 years. Alternatively, the writer may have been fully aware of that and it's just a case of WhatAnIdiot by the characters, who are unwilling to face the Malthusian disaster they've engineered for themselves (though with limitless energy available, they'd just need to forget the farmland and start building several agricultural urbmons for every residential one). Conversely, the status quo cannot be very old, as working backwards would result in a population less than today's just 50 years prior to the events in the novel. Though again, there could have been wars or other disasters that did indeed reduce the human population, and the current obsession with making babies really is a relatively recent fad that took on a life of its own.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: The human population is 75 billion, increasing by 4% per year. At that rate, they will hit the 200 billion limit in just 26 years. Alternatively, the writer may have been fully aware of that and it's just a case of WhatAnIdiot by the characters, who characters being TooDumbToLive because they are unwilling to face the Malthusian disaster they've engineered for themselves (though with limitless energy available, they'd just need to forget the farmland and start building several agricultural urbmons for every residential one). Conversely, the status quo cannot be very old, as working backwards would result in a population less than today's just 50 years prior to the events in the novel. Though again, there could have been wars or other disasters that did indeed reduce the human population, and the current obsession with making babies really is a relatively recent fad that took on a life of its own.
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* DudeLooksLikeALady: Micheal and Michaela are seen as this. They are exact twins and Jason Quervo even thinks that if he were looking at one from behind, he would be hard-pressed to figure out which one was which until he tried to have sex with them. He comments on Micheal's long hair, similar to Michaela's, the similar bone structure and stature, and how Michaela, (his wife) has very small breasts, allowing for confusion between them and pecs.
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* DudeLooksLikeALady: Micheal and Michaela are seen as this. They are exact twins and Jason Quervo even thinks that if he were looking at one from behind, he would be hard-pressed to figure out which one was which until he tried to have sex with them. He comments on Micheal's long hair, similar to Michaela's, the similar bone structure and stature, and how Michaela, Michaela (his wife) has very small breasts, allowing for confusion between them and pecs.
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* FreeLoveFuture: Most of the novel is set in a huge skyscraper (Urban Monad or [[WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture Urbmon]]), in which men are expected to go "night walking", wandering into other peoples' homes for sex, and it's unthinkably rude for a woman to refuse an advance. Silverberg goes into a bit of detail as to how such a society would produce unique sexual hangups of its own. One character is trying to make her husband jealous, which he points out is ridiculous. Meanwhile, she mocks him for sleeping with a woman because he's attracted to her brother--instead of sleeping with the brother.
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* FreeLoveFuture: Most of the novel is set in a huge skyscraper (Urban Monad or [[WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture Urbmon]]), in which men are expected to go "night walking", wandering into other peoples' homes for sex, and it's unthinkably rude for a woman to refuse an advance. Silverberg goes into a bit of detail as to how such a society would produce unique sexual hangups of its own. One character is trying to make her husband jealous, which he points out is ridiculous. Meanwhile, she mocks him for sleeping with a woman because he's attracted to her brother--instead brother -- instead of sleeping with the brother.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted as a plot point, but it's in the subtext, since on several occasions characters talk about how their culture "values life",[[note]]Interestingly, it anticipated the Catholic Church's "culture of life" rhetoric by at least a decade[[/note]] and particularly fertility, with the strong implication that contraception (see DeliberateValuesDissonance, above), much less abortion, would be unthinkable. "Good girls" in this novel get married at the age of 12 and within a decade have usually had several children, possibly by men other than those they are married to since all men are required to "nightwalk".
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Often you feel like this reading the book, as the thoughts and customs of the Urbmons are completely alien to the "modern" person, trying to abandon ambition, space, freedom, the outside, and self-determination.
** Lampshaded in the book through the interactions the characters have with the visiting socio-computator from the colonies on Venus, where it is implied that humans still live more as the modern reader does.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Often you feel like this reading the book, as the thoughts and customs of the Urbmons are completely alien to the "modern" person, trying to abandon ambition, space, freedom, the outside, and self-determination.
** Lampshaded in the book through the interactions the characters have with the visiting socio-computator from the colonies on Venus, where it is implied that humans still live more as the modern reader does.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted as a plot point, but it's in the subtext, since on several occasions characters talk about how their culture "values life",[[note]]Interestingly, life"[[note]]Interestingly, it anticipated the Catholic Church's "culture of life" rhetoric by at least a decade[[/note]] decade[[/note]], and particularly fertility, with the strong implication that contraception (see DeliberateValuesDissonance, above), much less abortion, would be unthinkable. "Good girls" in this novel get married at the age of 12 and within a decade have usually had several children, possibly by men other than those they are married to since all men are required to "nightwalk".
* HiveCity: The Urban Monads, or "Urbmons", are 1000-story-high ultradense habitation towers where the majority of Earth's population now lives, each divided into twenty-five vertically-stacked cities. Urbmon residents spend their entire lives in an environment where privacy is a foreign concept, although they depend heavily on constant food imports from the farms that make up most of the planet's surface.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Often you feel like this reading the book, as the thoughts and customs of the Urbmons are completely alien to the "modern" person, trying to abandon ambition, space, freedom, the outside, andself-determination.
** Lampshadedself-determination. This is lampshaded in the book through the interactions the characters have with the visiting socio-computator from the colonies on Venus, where it is implied that humans still live more as the modern reader does.
* HiveCity: The Urban Monads, or "Urbmons", are 1000-story-high ultradense habitation towers where the majority of Earth's population now lives, each divided into twenty-five vertically-stacked cities. Urbmon residents spend their entire lives in an environment where privacy is a foreign concept, although they depend heavily on constant food imports from the farms that make up most of the planet's surface.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Often you feel like this reading the book, as the thoughts and customs of the Urbmons are completely alien to the "modern" person, trying to abandon ambition, space, freedom, the outside, and
** Lampshaded
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* IncestSubtext: Micheal and Michaela show this throughout their chapters. Michaela admits that she experimented and may have had intercourse with her brother when she was younger, but has stopped at least a decade ago. Micheal still fantasizes about his sister and has multiple fantasies as he escapes from the Urbmons, imagining them having sex in the sea.
** It's also stated that it's seen as perfectly normal for brothers and sisters to have their first sexual experience with each other. "''Everybody'' tops their sister", one male character says to another.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: See DudeLooksLikeALady
* LikesOlderWomen: May be true of Siegmund Kluver, as he is claimed to be in a quote by Charles Mattern when he finds him in bed with his wife, Principessa (who is 13 years his senior, Siegmund Kluver being 14)
** It's also stated that it's seen as perfectly normal for brothers and sisters to have their first sexual experience with each other. "''Everybody'' tops their sister", one male character says to another.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: See DudeLooksLikeALady
* LikesOlderWomen: May be true of Siegmund Kluver, as he is claimed to be in a quote by Charles Mattern when he finds him in bed with his wife, Principessa (who is 13 years his senior, Siegmund Kluver being 14)
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* IncestSubtext: Micheal and Michaela show this throughout their chapters. Michaela admits that she experimented and may have had intercourse with her brother when she was younger, but has stopped at least a decade ago. Micheal still fantasizes about his sister and has multiple fantasies as he escapes from the Urbmons, imagining them having sex in the sea.
**sea. It's also stated that it's seen as perfectly normal for brothers and sisters to have their first sexual experience with each other. "''Everybody'' tops their sister", one male character says to another.
* %%* LadyLooksLikeADude: See DudeLooksLikeALady
* LikesOlderWomen: May be true of Siegmund Kluver, as he is claimed to be in a quote by Charles Mattern when he finds him in bed with his wife, Principessa (who is13 thirteen years his senior, Siegmund Kluver being 14)
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* LikesOlderWomen: May be true of Siegmund Kluver, as he is claimed to be in a quote by Charles Mattern when he finds him in bed with his wife, Principessa (who is
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* WritersCannotDoMath: The human population is 75 billion, increasing by 4% per year. At that rate, they will hit the 200 billion limit in just 26 years. Alternatively, the writer may have been fully aware of that and it's just a case of WhatAnIdiot by the characters, who are unwilling to face the Malthusian disaster they've engineered for themselves (though with limitless energy available, they'd just need to forget the farmland and start building several agricultural urbmons for every residential one).
** Conversely, the status quo cannot be very old, as working backwards would result in a population less than today's just 50 years prior to the events in the novel. Though again, there could have been wars or other disasters that did indeed reduce the human population, and the current obsession with making babies really is a relatively recent fad that took on a life of its own.
** Conversely, the status quo cannot be very old, as working backwards would result in a population less than today's just 50 years prior to the events in the novel. Though again, there could have been wars or other disasters that did indeed reduce the human population, and the current obsession with making babies really is a relatively recent fad that took on a life of its own.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: The human population is 75 billion, increasing by 4% per year. At that rate, they will hit the 200 billion limit in just 26 years. Alternatively, the writer may have been fully aware of that and it's just a case of WhatAnIdiot by the characters, who are unwilling to face the Malthusian disaster they've engineered for themselves (though with limitless energy available, they'd just need to forget the farmland and start building several agricultural urbmons for every residential one).
**one). Conversely, the status quo cannot be very old, as working backwards would result in a population less than today's just 50 years prior to the events in the novel. Though again, there could have been wars or other disasters that did indeed reduce the human population, and the current obsession with making babies really is a relatively recent fad that took on a life of its own.own.
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* BornInTheWrongCentury: One chapter is about a man who become jealous that his wife is possibly having sex with her brother ({{Twincest}}), meanwhile is actually having sex with one of the administrators in order to inspire him to have more ambition.
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* BornInTheWrongCentury: One chapter is about a man who become jealous that his wife is possibly [[BrotherSisterIncest having sex with her brother ({{Twincest}}), meanwhile is brother]], although she's actually having sex with one of the administrators in order to inspire him to have more ambition.
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* BreakTheCutie: Remember how Siegmund Kluver is only 14? And yet he has multiple, children, and is obsessed with helping the Urbmon community until he realizes all the popel up top don't care that much and spend much of their time partying and having sex instead of trying to help their building. This slowly breaks him to the point where [[spoiler:he can't take in anymore and kills himself by jumping off a building trying to "find God", as a priest suggested]]
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* BreakTheCutie: Remember how Siegmund Kluver is only 14? And yet he has multiple, multiple children, and is obsessed with helping the Urbmon community until he realizes all the popel people up top don't care that much and spend much of their time partying and having sex instead of trying to help their building. This slowly breaks him to the point where [[spoiler:he can't take in it anymore and kills himself by jumping off a building trying to "find God", as a priest suggested]]suggested]].
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* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Aurea tries this on Siegmund to get him to keep her and her husband from being forced to move to the newest urbmon, even though she knows it is unlikely to succeed in a society where anyone is anyone else's for the asking, sexually.
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* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Aurea tries this on Siegmund to get him to keep her and her husband from being forced to move to the newest urbmon, even though urbmon. Subverted in that she knows it is unlikely to succeed in a society where anyone is anyone else's for the asking, sexually.
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* FreeLoveFuture: ''The World Inside'' is set in a huge skyscraper (Urban Monad or [[WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture Urbmon]]), in which men are expected to go "night walking", wandering into other peoples' homes for sex, and it's unthinkably rude for a woman to refuse an advance. Silverberg goes into a bit of detail as to how such a society would produce unique sexual hangups of its own. One character is trying to make her husband jealous, which he points out is ridiculous. Meanwhile, she mocks him for sleeping with a woman because he's attracted to her brother--instead of sleeping with the brother.
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* FreeLoveFuture: ''The World Inside'' Most of the novel is set in a huge skyscraper (Urban Monad or [[WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture Urbmon]]), in which men are expected to go "night walking", wandering into other peoples' homes for sex, and it's unthinkably rude for a woman to refuse an advance. Silverberg goes into a bit of detail as to how such a society would produce unique sexual hangups of its own. One character is trying to make her husband jealous, which he points out is ridiculous. Meanwhile, she mocks him for sleeping with a woman because he's attracted to her brother--instead of sleeping with the brother.
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** Lampshaded in the book through the interactions the characters have with the visiting socio-computator from the colonies on Venus, where it is implied that humans still live more as the modern reader does.
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* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Aurea tries this on Siegmund to get him to keep her and her husband from being forced to move to the newest urbmon, even though she knows it is unlikely to succeed in a society where anyone is anyone else's for the asking, sexually.
-->She approaches him, pulls her shoulders back, unsubtly lets her nipples come thrusting through her garment of mesh. Hopeless. How can she magic him with two pink nubs of stiff flesh?
-->She approaches him, pulls her shoulders back, unsubtly lets her nipples come thrusting through her garment of mesh. Hopeless. How can she magic him with two pink nubs of stiff flesh?
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: Everyone lives in gargantuan apartment blocks ("Urban Monads" with names like [=ChiPitts=]) and never goes out. The entire human race is obsessed with having as many children as possible -- one protagonist is ashamed of having only four. It is seen as selfish (and therefore, criminal) to refuse sex to random strangers. And everyone is really, really happy all the time... because the ones who aren't happy are either lobotomized or dropped down the recycling chutes.
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: Everyone Almost everyone lives in gargantuan apartment blocks ("Urban Monads" with names like [=ChiPitts=]) and never goes out. The entire human race is obsessed with having as many children as possible -- one protagonist is ashamed of having only four. It is seen as selfish (and therefore, criminal) to refuse sex to random strangers. And everyone is really, really happy all the time... because the ones who aren't happy are either lobotomized or dropped down the recycling chutes.
* FreeLoveFuture: ''The World Inside'' is set in a huge skyscraper (Urban Monad or [[WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture Urbmon]]), in which men are expected to go "night walking", wandering into other peoples' homes for sex, and it's unthinkably rude for a woman to refuse an advance. Silverberg goes into a bit of detail as to how such a society would produce unique sexual hangups of its own. One character is trying to make her husband jealous, which he points out is ridiculous. Meanwhile, she mocks him for sleeping with a woman because he's attracted to her brother--instead of sleeping with the brother.
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* FreeLoveFuture: ''The World Inside'' is set in a huge skyscraper (Urban Monad or [[WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture Urbmon]]), in which men are expected to go "night walking", wandering into other peoples' homes for sex, and it's unthinkably rude for a woman to refuse an advance. Silverberg goes into a bit of detail as to how such a society would produce unique sexual hangups of its own. One character is trying to make her husband jealous, which he points out is ridiculous. Meanwhile, she mocks him for sleeping with a woman because he's attracted to her brother--instead of sleeping with the brother.
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* FreeLoveFuture: ''The World Inside'' is set MrExposition: Charles Mattern, in a huge skyscraper (Urban Monad or [[WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture Urbmon]]), in which men are expected the book's first chapter, explaining everything the reader needs to go "night walking", wandering into other peoples' homes for sex, and it's unthinkably rude for a woman to refuse an advance. Silverberg goes into a bit of detail as to how such a society would produce unique sexual hangups of its own. One character is trying to make her husband jealous, which he points out is ridiculous. Meanwhile, she mocks know. Justified by him for sleeping with greeting a woman because he's attracted to her brother--instead of sleeping with the brother.visitor from Venus.
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* PatchworkStory: Robert Silverberg's The World Inside was expanded from about five short stories set in the same universe.
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* PatchworkStory: Robert Silverberg's The World Inside novel was expanded from about five short stories set in the same universe.
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* GenderIsNoObject: Jason Quervo is forced to talk about a fantasy he was thinking of where he embraced Michaela for intercourse, but found Micheal instead (in the company of Micheal and his wife at dinner one night). He tells part of it, saying he was imagining if a man was to go out nightwalking and instead of finding Michaela, he finds Michael. Michael's wife then comments, " so what? he might be mildly surprised at first but then he would take Micheal regardless, wouldn't he?"
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* GenderIsNoObject: Jason Quervo is forced to talk about a fantasy he was thinking of where he embraced Michaela for intercourse, but found Micheal instead (in the company of Micheal and his wife at dinner one night). He tells part of it, saying he was imagining if a man was to go out nightwalking and instead of finding Michaela, he finds Michael. Michael's wife then comments, " so "so what? he might be mildly surprised at first but then he would take Micheal regardless, wouldn't he?"he?"
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted as a plot point, but it's in the subtext, since on several occasions characters talk about how their culture "values life",[[note]]Interestingly, it anticipated the Catholic Church's "culture of life" rhetoric by at least a decade[[/note]] and particularly fertility, with the strong implication that contraception (see DeliberateValuesDissonance, above), much less abortion, would be unthinkable. "Good girls" in this novel get married at the age of 12 and within a decade have usually had several children, possibly by men other than those they are married to since all men are required to "nightwalk".
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted as a plot point, but it's in the subtext, since on several occasions characters talk about how their culture "values life",[[note]]Interestingly, it anticipated the Catholic Church's "culture of life" rhetoric by at least a decade[[/note]] and particularly fertility, with the strong implication that contraception (see DeliberateValuesDissonance, above), much less abortion, would be unthinkable. "Good girls" in this novel get married at the age of 12 and within a decade have usually had several children, possibly by men other than those they are married to since all men are required to "nightwalk".
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* CreatureofHabit: One character, after secretly fleeing the Urbmons to try to find the sea, gets caught by a farmer village. The lack of technological cleanliness ( he feels "primitive" to be using water to bathe) makes him feel as if bacteria are burrowing under his skin and he comments on this and other homesickness symptoms as a result of this.
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* CreatureofHabit: CreatureOfHabit: One character, after secretly fleeing the Urbmons to try to find the sea, gets caught by a farmer village. The lack of technological cleanliness ( he feels "primitive" to be using water to bathe) makes him feel as if bacteria are burrowing under his skin and he comments on this and other homesickness symptoms as a result of this.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Prominently, there is one scene where a person looks at laws from the old system. He is naturally furious about a law that gives a man years in prison for going down on his wife... and even more furious about ''only'' years in prison given for selling contraceptives.
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