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2 | [[caption-width-right:180:Man stands alone in the sun. It represents something.]] |
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4 | ''Utopian Massacres'' is a 2018 dystopian novella by Asi Hart. |
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6 | It's the post-scarcity future. TheGovernment takes care of everything and everyone. According to police records, there is almost no crime. |
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8 | Society is split by economic caste, workers live in one part of the city, while government bureaucrats live in another. Gangs roam the city blocks and sub-humans take every opportunity to invade people's apartments to drive them out. |
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10 | When Rob Botnic's family is killed by thugs, he knows that calling the police will accomplish less than nothing. At the bar he meets a guy who tells him to take care of the matter himself. |
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12 | !!Tropes in this novella include: |
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14 | %%* AntiHero: Rob Botnic |
15 | * ArmsDealer: Andel Pomsty helps Rob print some firearms. |
16 | %%* AxCrazy: Rob Botnic |
17 | %%* BlackAndGrayMorality |
18 | %%* BloodyHorror |
19 | * ChaseScene: a foot-chase on roof-tops, underground, in a train. |
20 | %%* CityWithNoName: the setting. |
21 | %%* ColdBloodedTorture: Rob's wife is subjected to this. |
22 | * DesignStudentsOrgasm [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51-AGTiVAIL.jpg the cover looks very strange,]] the physical copy is similar, has the same image, but smaller font and looks even more reminiscent of a [[ProgressiveRock Prog-Rock album]]. |
23 | %%* CrapsaccharineWorld: for government officials and employees the setting is this. And for the chavs it is an actual {{Utopia}}. |
24 | %%* CrapsackWorld: The lower class experiences this. It is well meant though. |
25 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Several chavs get burned alive. |
26 | %%* {{Dystopia}}: TheGovernment is extremely well meaning, but out of touch and rather stupid. |
27 | %%* ForTheEvulz: The thugs are too involved in their tortures. |
28 | * TheGovernment: The government has unwittingly created a very bad situation for the lower class. The very existance of the chavs is their fault. |
29 | * MeaningfulName: [[PunnyName Rob Botnic]] means ''worker'' in Russian. |
30 | %%* {{Sadist}}: Martel and his crew are all this. |
31 | %%* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies |
32 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Rob brings the pain to everybody he can think of blaming for his family's death. |
33 | %% * TheFuture |
34 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Only [[TheGovernment the government]] and people who never meet or see them in person regard the chavs as humans. They look human, and legally they are, but everybody treats them as varmints. |
35 | %% * WideEyedIdealist: Jack Squarim. He gets upset when Rob tells him how things really are across the river. |
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