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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Used as a major plot point in Konstance's story. If earth was so badly ravaged to the point where their only hope was to send a GenerationShip to the stars, how could they have mustered the resources to build one? [[spoiler:They couldn't, and they didn't]].
* WorstAid: After her older sister Maria suffers a traumatic head injury, Anna desperately scrambles the money for a miracle cure in the form of blessed water... mixed with mercury and drank in a lead cup. Tragically, the cure was offered in good faith and nobody knew that she was slowly being poisoned.
* WorstAid: After her older sister Maria suffers a traumatic head injury, Anna desperately scrambles the money for a miracle cure in the form of blessed water... mixed with mercury and drank in a lead cup. Tragically, the cure was offered in good faith and nobody knew that she was slowly being poisoned.
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In 1450s Constantinople, Anna and Omeir live on either side of the seige. In 1950s Korea, Zeno is an American prisoner of war. In 2020 America, a teenager attempts a terror attack on a library. In the far future, Konstance travels through the stars.
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In 1450s Constantinople, Anna and Omeir live on either side of the seige.siege. In 1950s Korea, Zeno is an American prisoner of war. In 2020 America, a teenager attempts a terror attack on a library. In the far future, Konstance travels through the stars.
* ChekhovsSkill: Konstance's father taught her all about plants, comparing a coconut's germination holes to a face. [[spoiler:Which is how she realized that a coconut tree found in a simulation of Earth was a fake generated by AI; it didn't have the germination holes]].
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* GenerationShip: The Argos.
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* GenerationShip: The Argos. [[spoiler:Or so it seems. Earth simply didn't have the resources to build a spaceship; the Argos is actually a sealed building in Greenland]].
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* SpottingTheThread:Konstance finding the owls in the Atlas, and slowly realising the truth about the Argos.
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* SpottingTheThread:Konstance finding the owls in the Atlas, and slowly realising the truth about the Argos.Argos.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Used as a major plot point in Konstance's story. If earth was so badly ravaged to the point where their only hope was to send a GenerationShip to the stars, how could they have mustered the resources to build one? [[spoiler:They couldn't, and they didn't]].
* WorstAid: After her older sister Maria suffers a traumatic head injury, Anna desperately scrambles the money for a miracle cure in the form of blessed water... mixed with mercury and drank in a lead cup. Tragically, the cure was offered in good faith and nobody knew that she was slowly being poisoned.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Used as a major plot point in Konstance's story. If earth was so badly ravaged to the point where their only hope was to send a GenerationShip to the stars, how could they have mustered the resources to build one? [[spoiler:They couldn't, and they didn't]].
* WorstAid: After her older sister Maria suffers a traumatic head injury, Anna desperately scrambles the money for a miracle cure in the form of blessed water... mixed with mercury and drank in a lead cup. Tragically, the cure was offered in good faith and nobody knew that she was slowly being poisoned.
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* AnachronicOrder: There are Chapters rotate between six main characters over five timelines.
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* GlobalWarming: A theme explored in Seymour's storyline, and some of the effects are shown in Konstance's.
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* GlobalWarming: A theme explored in Seymour's storyline, and with some of the effects are shown in Konstance's.
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* HumansAreBastards: Believed by Seymour.Seymour.
* SpottingTheThread:Konstance finding the owls in the Atlas, and slowly realising the truth about the Argos.
* SpottingTheThread:Konstance finding the owls in the Atlas, and slowly realising the truth about the Argos.
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* {{Doorstopper}}: Just over 600 pages.
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''Cloud Cuckoo Land'' by Anthony Doerr is a novel following multiple different characters in several different timelines.
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''Cloud Cuckoo Land'' by Anthony Doerr is a 2021 novel following multiple different characters in several different timelines.
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''Cloud Cuckoo Land'' by Anthony Doerr is a novel following multiple different characters in several different timelines.
In 1450s Constantinople, Anna and Omeir live on either side of the seige. In 1950s Korea, Zeno is an American prisoner of war. In 2020 America, a teenager attempts a terror attack on a library. In the far future, Konstance travels through the stars.
Connecting each story is an ancient Greek text about Aethon, a man who turns from man to donkey to bird in search of a paradise in the sky.
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!!Contains examples of:
* AfterTheEnd: Implied with Konstance's story.
* AnachronicOrder: There are six main characters over five timelines.
* GenerationShip: The Argos.
* GlobalWarming: A theme explored in Seymour's storyline, and some of the effects are shown in Konstance's.
* HumansAreBastards: Believed by Seymour.
''Cloud Cuckoo Land'' by Anthony Doerr is a novel following multiple different characters in several different timelines.
In 1450s Constantinople, Anna and Omeir live on either side of the seige. In 1950s Korea, Zeno is an American prisoner of war. In 2020 America, a teenager attempts a terror attack on a library. In the far future, Konstance travels through the stars.
Connecting each story is an ancient Greek text about Aethon, a man who turns from man to donkey to bird in search of a paradise in the sky.
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!!Contains examples of:
* AfterTheEnd: Implied with Konstance's story.
* AnachronicOrder: There are six main characters over five timelines.
* GenerationShip: The Argos.
* GlobalWarming: A theme explored in Seymour's storyline, and some of the effects are shown in Konstance's.
* HumansAreBastards: Believed by Seymour.
