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* {{Anvilicious}}: The book ranges from "banging on a door" subtle to "hammered with a mallet" subtle. Anything less wouldn't carry the message as well.
* InferredHolocaust: Roxy and [[spoiler: Bernie]] have a conversation at the end of the book that's in the middle of the night with light on the horizon, implying that [[spoiler: London]] is burning.

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* %%* {{Anvilicious}}: The book ranges from "banging on a door" subtle to "hammered with a mallet" subtle. Anything less wouldn't carry the message as well.
* InferredHolocaust: Roxy and [[spoiler: Bernie]] have a conversation at the end of the book that's in the middle of the night with light on the horizon, implying that [[spoiler: London]] is burning.burning.
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* FridgeLogic: Gender roles in society only arise in part from men typically being physically stronger than women; an equally strong influence comes from the biological mechanics of pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing, which make women more evolutionarily indispensable to species preservation -- any society which loses a significant proportion of its childbearing female members in a given generation will tend to be outbred by more fertile cultures, which would be a very strong disincentive for armies or police forces to be composed ''en masse'' of women no matter how dangerous the Power made them.
** Widespread development of safe and effective artificial wombs would offset this effect, but the plausibility of being able to do this while rebuilding society after a nuclear cataclysm is questionable.
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** Widespread development of safe and effective artificial wombs would offset this effect, but the plausibility of being able to do this in a society rebuilt thousands of years after a nuclear cataclysm is questionable.

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** Widespread development of safe and effective artificial wombs would offset this effect, but the plausibility of being able to do this in a while rebuilding society rebuilt thousands of years after a nuclear cataclysm is questionable.
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* FridgeLogic: Gender roles in society only arise in part from men typically being physically stronger than women; an equally strong influence comes from the biological mechanics of pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing, which make women more evolutionarily indispensable to species preservation -- any society which loses a significant proportion of its childbearing female members in a given generation will tend to be outbred by more fertile cultures, which would be a very strong disincentive for armies or police forces to be composed ''en masse'' of women no matter how dangerous the Power made them.
** Widespread development of safe and effective artificial wombs would offset this effect, but the plausibility of being able to do this in a society rebuilt thousands of years after a nuclear cataclysm is questionable.
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* InferredHolocaust: Roxy and [[spoiler: Bernie]] have a conversation at the end of the book that's in the middle of the night with light on the horizon, implying that [[spoiler: London]] is burning.
* Anvilicious: The book ranges from "banging on a door" subtle to "hammered with a mallet" subtle. Anything less wouldn't carry the message as well.

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* {{Anvilicious}}: The book ranges from "banging on a door" subtle to "hammered with a mallet" subtle. Anything less wouldn't carry the message as well.
* InferredHolocaust: Roxy and [[spoiler: Bernie]] have a conversation at the end of the book that's in the middle of the night with light on the horizon, implying that [[spoiler: London]] is burning.
* Anvilicious: The book ranges from "banging on a door" subtle to "hammered with a mallet" subtle. Anything less wouldn't carry the message as well.
burning.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The book ranges from "banging on a door" subtle to "hammered with a mallet" subtle. Anything less wouldn't carry the message as well.

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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Anvilicious: The book ranges from "banging on a door" subtle to "hammered with a mallet" subtle. Anything less wouldn't carry the message as well.
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* HolyShitQuotient - “It was Bernie!”
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* InferredHolocaust: Roxy and [[spoiler: Bernie]] have a conversation at the end of the book that's in the middle of the night with light on the horizon, implying that [[spoiler: London]] is burning.

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* InferredHolocaust: Roxy and [[spoiler: Bernie]] have a conversation at the end of the book that's in the middle of the night with light on the horizon, implying that [[spoiler: London]] is burning.burning.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The book ranges from "banging on a door" subtle to "hammered with a mallet" subtle. Anything less wouldn't carry the message as well.

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* HolyShitQuotient - “It was Bernie!”

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* HolyShitQuotient - “It was Bernie!”Bernie!”
* InferredHolocaust: Roxy and [[spoiler: Bernie]] have a conversation at the end of the book that's in the middle of the night with light on the horizon, implying that [[spoiler: London]] is burning.
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