...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Early Riser

603 statements
118 feature instances
14 referencing feature instances

Early Riser	type	TVTItem
Early Riser	label	Early Riser
Early Riser	page	EarlyRiser
Early Riser	comment	A sci-fi/ fantasy/ crime/ satirical comedy Alternate History novel by Jasper Fforde, Early Riser is set in a world where the last ice age never ended and the human population hibernates to survive. During the bitterly cold 118-day-long "month" of Standard Winter, the world is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, devoid of activity as everyone sleeps away the frigid season in a dreamless haze courtesy of the drug Morphenox....well, not quite everyone.Protagonist Charlie Worthing has just joined the ranks of the Winter Consuls, a group of committed (if not mildly unhinged) misfits responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses. The decision might have been spur-of-the-moment, but Charlie will get to work under the best in the industry: Jack Logan, a famed Winter Consul with over 20 years experience under his belt.Charlie's first overwinter shift is supposed to be a safe, simple affair. Just filing and paperwork and doing laundry for the senior agents. But when Jack Logan is suddenly removed from the picture during a routine assignment, Charlie is compelled by duty to carry out Logan's investigation into an outbreak of viral dreams in Talgarth — home to Morphenox manufacturer HiberTech's headquarters, and one of the remotest regions of Sector 12.The Winter Consul initially dismisses these viral dreams as nonsense, nothing more than a quirky artifact borne of the sleeping mind. So when the dreams start to kill people, it's unsettling. When Charlie gets the dreams too, it's weird. When the dreams start to come true, Charlie begins to think maybe they've bitten off more than they can chew.But teasing truth from Winter is never easy. Anyone who wants to survive the 118 days from Slumberdown to Springrise will have to avoid roving Villains (with their penchant for murder, kidnapping and stamp collecting); ensure they aren't eaten by Nightwalkers (whose thirst for human flesh can only be satisfied by comfort food); and sidestep the dangers of the increasingly less-than-mythical WinterVolk of lore. Charlie will also have to contend with the minefield of allegiances out in Sector 12. One wrong move could upset the delicate balance between the Winter Consuls, HiberTech, and the assorted shamans, dreamers, drowseys, porters, and insomniacs who all have their reasons to keep active during the coldest and most dangerous time of the year.But so long as Charlie remember to wrap up warmly, they should be fine.
Early Riser	fetched	2024-04-07T13:46:04Z
Early Riser	parsed	2024-04-07T13:46:04Z
Early Riser	processingComment	Dropped link to DoctorWho: Not a Feature - ITEM
Early Riser	processingComment	Dropped link to JamesBond: Not a Feature - ITEM
Early Riser	processingComment	Dropped link to JaneEyre: Not a Feature - ITEM
Early Riser	processingComment	Dropped link to JohannSebastianBach: Not a Feature - ITEM
Early Riser	processingComment	Dropped link to RomeoAndJuliet: Not a Feature - ITEM
Early Riser	isPartOf	DBTropes
Early Riser / int_1226f314	type	Dream Walker
Early Riser / int_1226f314	comment	Dream Walker: The Gronk is what remains of Gretl Block, who turned into a viral dream after her father murdered her and hops from host to host killing the unworthy.
Early Riser / int_1226f314	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_1226f314	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_1226f314
Early Riser / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Early Riser / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: A large number of named characters, with varying levels of development, die throughout the novel, including Jack Logan, Moody, Jonesy, Lucy, Hooke, Foulnap, and Aurora.
Early Riser / int_1237828f	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_1237828f	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_1237828f
Early Riser / int_125a7a4e	type	Dream Weaver
Early Riser / int_125a7a4e	comment	Dream Weaver: Aurora specialized in interrogating the targets of HiberTech's security team, racking up hundreds of hours poking around in the dreams of her victims. She eventually developed the ability to mold their dreams to her will and used it to torture confessions and information out of suspects. Don Hector helped to develop the technology, and was able to use his dream-shaping powers to booby-trap all his own dreams, knowing the HiberTech would record them. His traps render the recordings functionally worthless for extracting information.
Early Riser / int_125a7a4e	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_125a7a4e	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_125a7a4e
Early Riser / int_1522d74	type	Technically-Living Zombie
Early Riser / int_1522d74	comment	Technically-Living Zombie: "Nightwalkers" are the result of neural collapse due to Morphenox use during hibernation - for every 3,000 people who sleep peacefully through the winter in a dreamless, Morphenox-aided slumber, there will be one who turns into a mindless, hungry husk of the person they used to be. For this reason, they're declared legally dead and shipped off to HiberTech headquarters in Sector 12 to be "parted" (broken down for organ and limb donations) or "redeployed" (reprogrammed to handle simple tasks like washing plates or opening doors). Regardless of whether they've been redeployed or not, all Nightwalkers will turn to cannibalism if they aren't fed an adequate supply of comfort food like Snickers bars or Ambrosia Rice Pudding.
Early Riser / int_1522d74	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_1522d74	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_1522d74
Early Riser / int_1759af2f	type	Feghoot
Early Riser / int_1759af2f	comment	Feghoot: A rather elaborate one involving Mrs. Tiffen, a "tricksy" nightwalker who is capable of playing songs by Tom Jones; she starts out only being able to play "Help Yourself", but after an attempted kidnapping, she's only able to play "Delilah". When Charlie asks a member of HiberTech if this sort of behavior is typical in nightwalkers, they're told "It's Not Unusual" before Mrs. Tiffen gets taken away.
Early Riser / int_1759af2f	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_1759af2f	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_1759af2f
Early Riser / int_1888979e	type	Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist
Early Riser / int_1888979e	comment	Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Notable Goodnight gets a nice long Motive Rant about how the creation, slavery, and murder of hundreds of Nightwalkers is ultimately for the greater good, since it'll create a social revolution by making a permanent underclass for humanity to use, and that letting them continue to exist is noble and good. And hey, if HiberTech just happens to be making a great deal of money off exploiting them, all the better. Charlie sees right through it.
Early Riser / int_1888979e	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_1888979e	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_1888979e
Early Riser / int_1892d512	type	Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Early Riser / int_1892d512	comment	Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Jack Logan is introduced as a man who "was tall, dark, and had matinee idol good looks."
Early Riser / int_1892d512	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_1892d512	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_1892d512
Early Riser / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Early Riser / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: The novel treats "hibernation" in humans as just "a very long period of sleep" to the point where some characters are implied to be able to stay awake all summer, but it's more complicated than that— in real life, hibernation in larger animals, such as bears, is a form of topor that actually has brain activity that resembles sleep deprivation. True hibernation is only possible in smaller animals such as bats. One of the main advantages of Morphenox is that its users Cannot Dream, as dreaming burns calories and often leads to Death in Sleep; in reality, dreaming uses up so little caloric load that you're lucky to burn any calories as you sleep, even if you're tossing and turning due to a nightmare. People who Overwinter are said to hibernate during the summer; however, this form of hibernation is called Aestivation.
Early Riser / int_18aff462	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_18aff462	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_18aff462
Early Riser / int_19fc58a2	type	A Lighter Shade of Black
Early Riser / int_19fc58a2	comment	A Lighter Shade of Black: While Toccata is the good half of a Split Personality, Aurora is an out and out sadist torturer, so it comes out to her being "barely tolerable" at best. Jonesy casually mentions that she beat her into a concussion for a week for some slight or other.
Early Riser / int_19fc58a2	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_19fc58a2	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_19fc58a2
Early Riser / int_1b36b313	type	Mandatory Motherhood
Early Riser / int_1b36b313	comment	Mandatory Motherhood: The "wastage" of citizens who don't make it through the winter results in constant public panic that the population will die off faster than it can be replaced. Women are encouraged to have as many children as possible, and each successful birth results in a "Silver Stork" award. The government is split over whether they should offer more benefits/ subsidies to mothers and families (the liberal position), or shame the barren and enforce stiffer penalties for women who don't produce (the conservative position). "Childbearing Evasion" is a crime. Paying "offsets" for partial custody of a child in a pooled parentage station (i.e. an orphanage) can reduce a sentence to "childbearing avoidance," which isn't quite a crime so much as a misdemeanor. Fodder is transgender and has been living as a man for years, if not decades. Despite this, he offers to personally carry a child for the Villains in order to uphold the truce between Sector 12 and the deposed English nobility, rather than stealing a child from one of the Nursitorium.
Early Riser / int_1b36b313	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_1b36b313	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_1b36b313
Early Riser / int_1ba34641	type	The Glomp
Early Riser / int_1ba34641	comment	The Glomp: The "Winter embrace", an incredibly close and well-enclosed hug made for sharing body heat between overwinterers. There are a few people you don't want to embrace, i.e. children, but otherwise people aren't shy about giving them to strangers to keep warm.
Early Riser / int_1ba34641	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_1ba34641	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_1ba34641
Early Riser / int_1f48abcd	type	Skeleton Key
Early Riser / int_1f48abcd	comment	Skeleton Key: When Charlie becomes an official Novice Consul, they receive an "omnikey," which will allow them to open any lock on any door, in any Dormitoria or building. Locking hardware was standardized some time in the 1930's to allow for the production of just such a type of universal key, so anything older was "grandfathered in." Of course, when Charlie finds a mysterious steamer trunk on the 9th floor of the Sarah Siddons it has an old-style lock that renders the omnikey useless.
Early Riser / int_1f48abcd	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_1f48abcd	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_1f48abcd
Early Riser / int_204340fc	type	Vomiting Cop
Early Riser / int_204340fc	comment	Vomiting Cop: When Charlie investigates the body of one Winter Consul agent who'd been killed by pulse weaponry, they end up throwing up in the snow next to the crime scene. A senior agent rebukes them for carelessly expelling calories, and suggests Charlie bag up the vomit in case they need it later.
Early Riser / int_204340fc	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_204340fc	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_204340fc
Early Riser / int_23f80ecd	type	Devoured by the Horde
Early Riser / int_23f80ecd	comment	Devoured by the Horde: The fate of anyone unfortunate enough to encounter a group of Nightwalkers who have "gone pack", or reverted to their cannibalistic instincts after running out of comfort food. Nightwalkers will just as easily turn on one of their own as they will a non-afflicted person. Also Exploited — Aurora makes this a specialty, as out of all the nightmares she can inflict on the subjects of HiberTech's interrogations, this is the nastiest.
Early Riser / int_23f80ecd	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_23f80ecd	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_23f80ecd
Early Riser / int_258a5cfe	type	Different World, Different Movies
Early Riser / int_258a5cfe	comment	Different World, Different Movies: A chapter header discusses the differences between two extant versions of The Mona Lisa, with the one at the Louvre noted to be skinny and unattractive while a second copy of the portrait is said to look plump and healthy. Famous works of theater like Romeo and Juliet and Agamemnon have slightly altered plots that reflect the fact that humans hibernate during the winter. Both the Zeffirelli's film adaptation and Baz Luhrmann's version of Romeo and Juliet are mentioned, in the context of how the respective directors handle Romeo's awakening in Spring (expecting to be met with Juliet asleep beside him, but finding instead the desiccated corpse of his beloved). James Bond is now Jane Bond, with Charlie musing on how the one guy who played the role was controversial at the time.
Early Riser / int_258a5cfe	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_258a5cfe	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_258a5cfe
Early Riser / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Early Riser / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Charlie's parents hired a surrogate to carry Charlie to term, but dumped the infant Charlie in a child rearing pool due to Charlie's facial deformity. Charlie wasn't expected to survive past a second winter, so everyone involved got an insurance payout for their trouble.
Early Riser / int_297ab1b9	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_297ab1b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_297ab1b9
Early Riser / int_2ab73660	type	Beast Man
Early Riser / int_2ab73660	comment	Beast Man: Played with; humans in this universe have adapted to grow fur-like winter coats when they hibernate, but these are evidently shed during the summer. Some of them even have fur patterns, as Fodder demonstrates by showing off a tiger-like coat when he reveals that he was assigned female at birth.
Early Riser / int_2ab73660	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_2ab73660	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_2ab73660
Early Riser / int_2bf993ad	type	Secret Relationship
Early Riser / int_2bf993ad	comment	Secret Relationship: Birgitta and Charles were in a committed relationship and considered themselves married, but because of their involvement in the Campaign for RealSleep it would have been too dangerous to have their union legally recognized.
Early Riser / int_2bf993ad	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_2bf993ad	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_2bf993ad
Early Riser / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Early Riser / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: Morphenox (and its counterpart "Juvenox" for the under-12 set) is the recently developed drug that puts humans into a deep, dreamless hibernatory state and prevents them from accidentally waking halfway through their hibernation. Before the introduction of Morphenox in 1974 (several decades before the start of the book), there was a much higher death rate among hibernators. Waking up early or dreaming too intensely could cause hibernators to burn through too much of their body fat reserves, leaving them to starve to death before spring. The side effect of Morphenox is that 1/3,000 overwinter users suffer a neural collapse while asleep, ending up as mindless cannibals. These "Nightwalkers" are declared legally dead and either killed outright, harvested for their organs, or reprogrammed to perform menial labor for a few years and then harvested for their organs. D-reem is an illicit drug Shaman Bob and his coterie of winsomniac dreamers take to enhance their dreams.
Early Riser / int_2cd22076	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_2cd22076	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_2cd22076
Early Riser / int_30f7df9d	type	Rummage Sale Reject
Early Riser / int_30f7df9d	comment	Rummage Sale Reject: The Villains, being deposed English aristocracy who have taken up banditry and kidnapping to maintain their illegal estates, dress in a combination of stuffy "upper class" duds (tweed, High-Class Glass, etc...) and warm winter gear. When Lord Farnesworth first threatens Charlie, his outfit is described as such:
Early Riser / int_30f7df9d	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_30f7df9d	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_30f7df9d
Early Riser / int_3121e8df	type	Split-Personality Merge
Early Riser / int_3121e8df	comment	Split-Personality Merge: Discussed — this is what Charlie hopes to Invoke in order to distract or defuse Aurora by forcing her to confront all her good instincts that splintered into the Toccata personality.Instead the Gronk kills the Aurora personality, leaving Toccata the only one in control.
Early Riser / int_3121e8df	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_3121e8df	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_3121e8df
Early Riser / int_31898188	type	Recurring Dreams
Early Riser / int_31898188	comment	Recurring Dreams: The viral dreams affecting sleepers at the Sarah Siddons all involve boulders, blue Buicks, a belligerent Mrs. Nesbit (of Mrs. Nesbit's Tea House), and a swarm of disembodied hands that attack the dreamer. Turns out this trope is Invoked by HiberTech, who are broadcasting a recording of Don Hector's last dream into the minds of the Sarah Siddons residents. The repetition of the dream, night after night, causes the sleepers to become Mad Dreamers.
Early Riser / int_31898188	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_31898188	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_31898188
Early Riser / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Early Riser / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The Villains are willing to take a deal involving them getting a healthy child in exchange for Charlie's life, and are willing to wait two years if the mother is Laura, because she's not yet an adult and 'one does not approve of child with child.'.
Early Riser / int_319e4a2f	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_319e4a2f	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_319e4a2f
Early Riser / int_33e3bdc9	type	Intentional Weight Gain
Early Riser / int_33e3bdc9	comment	Intentional Weight Gain: Overlaps with Big Beautiful Man / Big Beautiful Woman and Big Eater — Since humanity hibernates through the winter, gorging oneself on food before hibernation is considered socially acceptable, with exercise being shunned for fear of running out of fat-reserves mid-winter and subsequently starving to death. Charlie mentions "the latest faddy get-fat-quick diets" that crop up after Fat Thursday (the start of the feasting season) since "-for the two months until Slumberdown, every calorie was sacred; a fight to keep every ounce."
Early Riser / int_33e3bdc9	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_33e3bdc9	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_33e3bdc9
Early Riser / int_34baf644	type	Dismemberment Is Cheap
Early Riser / int_34baf644	comment	Dismemberment Is Cheap: Due to the large supply of Nightwalkers who are "parted out" when their usefulness is up, there's a high availability of spare organs (for those who need a transplant) and entire limbs (for those who need a replacement). When Charlie strikes up a conversation with an overwinter performer whose husband "Nightwalked" some winters ago, the woman muses how her husband's "legs are on a gardener in Stourbridge right now, and his eyes are currently looking across the Sound of Mull."
Early Riser / int_34baf644	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_34baf644	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_34baf644
Early Riser / int_3537d6df	type	Alternate Techline
Early Riser / int_3537d6df	comment	Alternate Techline: Due to the need for tech to survive Hibernation, there's a number of alternative technologies running around. Guns have been replaced with "thumpers" which fire off pressure waves, cars and other machines run on compressed air rather than fuel, nuclear energy is used to keep sleepers warm, and wax cylinders are still used to record sound and dreams. There's also mention of bioluminescent plankton being used as a light source.
Early Riser / int_3537d6df	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_3537d6df	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_3537d6df
Early Riser / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
Early Riser / int_370aad9	comment	Split Personality: Aurora Toccata was originally the head of HiberTech's security and their most effective dream interrogator. She inflicted countless nightmares on hundreds (if not thousands) of sleepers in order to get information out of them. Eventually the cruelty of her actions caused her mind to fracture into the distinct personalities of Aurora, the remorselessly cruel chief of HiberTech security, and Toccata, the no-nonsense Chief of Sector 12's Winter Consul (who eventually joins the underground Campaign for RealSleep to help protect nightwalkers).
Early Riser / int_370aad9	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_370aad9	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_370aad9
Early Riser / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Early Riser / int_40bb59d0	comment	It's mentioned at one point that projectile weaponry (i.e. guns) are seen as a more humane alternative to certain applications of "non-lethal" pulse weaponry.
Early Riser / int_40bb59d0	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_40bb59d0	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_40bb59d0
Early Riser / int_42f85f99	type	Shared Dream
Early Riser / int_42f85f99	comment	Shared Dream: The ability to record and play back dreams allows multiple individuals to experience the same dream scenario. One of HiberTech's interrogation techniques is to put victims in a shared dream with Aurora, whose powerful Dream Weaver skills allow her to turn innocent shared dreams into nightmarish torture chambers.
Early Riser / int_42f85f99	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_42f85f99	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_42f85f99
Early Riser / int_4510b368	type	Ambiguous Gender
Early Riser / int_4510b368	comment	Ambiguous Gender: Charlie is never written with gendered pronouns, and as the narrator they never give an indication as to their gender. Itâ€™s also possible theyâ€™re nonbinary; the one time another character addresses Charlie in the third person, it's Toccata shouting "what do you want me to do about them?"
Early Riser / int_4510b368	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_4510b368	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_4510b368
Early Riser / int_4548bae	type	Teen Pregnancy
Early Riser / int_4548bae	comment	Teen Pregnancy: Discussed as one method to stem the "wastage" that happens every year when young children and able-bodied adults die during hibernation. One character mentions that this would mean redefining who counts as a "child," as pregnancies are frowned upon until women turn 18. Even the capital-V Villains (who have no compulsion against kidnapping, murder, and theft) look down on teen pregnancy, with the outlaw Lady Farnesworth quoted saying "one does not approve of child with child."
Early Riser / int_4548bae	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_4548bae	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_4548bae
Early Riser / int_461defa0	type	Two-Faced
Early Riser / int_461defa0	comment	Two-Faced: Charlie, who has one eye a few inches below the other due to a deformity in their skull. While it doesn't reflect on their morality, as they're a good, prinicipled person beneath it all, it does influence others' perceptions of them, particularly Aurora (who can only see the normal side) and Toccata (who can only see the disfigured side).
Early Riser / int_461defa0	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_461defa0	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_461defa0
Early Riser / int_4e64ae3a	type	Rip Van Tinkle
Early Riser / int_4e64ae3a	comment	Rip Van Tinkle: Hibernation doesn't stop the kidneys from working, just slows them down — and anything that sits in the bladder for that long becomes horrifically potent. Charlie wakes up from four weeks of accidental hibernation and stumbles to the bathroom to relieve themself of "something that smelled of overripe silage, looked like yacht varnish and felt as though it were burning a new way out."
Early Riser / int_4e64ae3a	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_4e64ae3a	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_4e64ae3a
Early Riser / int_550e75cd	type	Braving the Blizzard
Early Riser / int_550e75cd	comment	Braving the Blizzard: The last few chapters take place as a blizzard sweeps into Sector 12, with temperatures at -40 degree Celsius and wind gusts that can lift a man off his feet. Multiple characters are forced to travel through the cold, both on foot and in large Sno-Trac vehicles. And while Charlie might be able to negotiate with trigger-happy Consul agents or scheming HiberTech security personnel, no one can negotiate with a blizzard.
Early Riser / int_550e75cd	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_550e75cd	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_550e75cd
Early Riser / int_5778083b	type	Sound Stone
Early Riser / int_5778083b	comment	Sound Stone: Everyone in the novel is chasing after a wax cylinder with a pattern of words recorded on it that has the capability to cure Nightwalkers of their condition; HiberTech wants to destroy it, and the Campaign for Real Sleep wants to use it.
Early Riser / int_5778083b	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_5778083b	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_5778083b
Early Riser / int_5aebe5bb	type	Cannot Dream
Early Riser / int_5aebe5bb	comment	Cannot Dream: One of the main reasons so many people take Morphenox is to prevent themselves from dreaming, as apparently having dreams uses up unnecessary calories when hibernating. Charlie proudly says they haven't dreamt since they were eight years old.
Early Riser / int_5aebe5bb	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_5aebe5bb	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_5aebe5bb
Early Riser / int_5f611b7e	type	Good All Along
Early Riser / int_5f611b7e	comment	Good All Along: The Gronk might be a bit more simplistic than most, but it turns out she only goes after people who are truly "unworthy": her murderous father, Lucky Ned, Hooke, and then Aurora. Charlie spends most of the book worried that the Gronk will come for them due to their guilt over causing Logan's death, but she helps them instead, understanding that their guilt is misplaced.
Early Riser / int_5f611b7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_5f611b7e	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_5f611b7e
Early Riser / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Early Riser / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Due to the high caloric cost of hibernation, everyone is expected to pack on the pounds before Winter, with "five times the caloric intake" being the minimum. Overwinterers are the only ones who get a break, because they hibernate in summer instead, but they are still expected to keep some contingency weight just in case. Early in the book, Charlie accidentally falls asleep for four weeks and nearly starves to death, and is stuffing themselves at every opportunity for the rest of the book.
Early Riser / int_5fcedca	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_5fcedca	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_5fcedca
Early Riser / int_61459062	type	Perception Filter
Early Riser / int_61459062	comment	Perception Filter: Any time Aurora and Toccata find evidence that they're actually the same person, they write it off or ignore it. They go so far as to complain that the other is "avoiding" them.
Early Riser / int_61459062	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_61459062	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_61459062
Early Riser / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
Early Riser / int_615fdb1f	comment	Dream Sequence: Several chapters take place inside dreams.
Early Riser / int_615fdb1f	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_615fdb1f	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_615fdb1f
Early Riser / int_649f5bec	type	Creepy Souvenir
Early Riser / int_649f5bec	comment	Creepy Souvenir: Apparently, proof of death for Nightwalkers comes in the form of severing the left thumb.
Early Riser / int_649f5bec	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_649f5bec	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_649f5bec
Early Riser / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Early Riser / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Don Hector not only figured out that Nightwalkers were retrievable, he found a way to do it, and he created a version of Morphenox that creates no Nightwalkers at all. HiberTech couldn't have that, so they sent Aurora to kill him. They're after the Campaign for RealSleep for the same reason, killing everyone who knows of the cure's existence. They kill Logan, Jonesy, and Foulnap throughout the novel and come close to killing Charlie.
Early Riser / int_65acf9db	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_65acf9db	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_65acf9db
Early Riser / int_66d13ab9	type	Talking in Your Dreams
Early Riser / int_66d13ab9	comment	Talking in Your Dreams: The "Dreamspace", technology that allows people to share dreams. HiberTech had plans to use it for social reasons, but it wasn't viable, so instead they use it to interrogate. Aurora and Charlie share a dream at the end where Aurora pries the location of the cylinder out of Charlie and then tries to torture them, but is stopped by the Gronk.
Early Riser / int_66d13ab9	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_66d13ab9	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_66d13ab9
Early Riser / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Early Riser / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Charlie Worthing, the protagonist, spends a large part of the novel worried that they're unworthy— i.e. a drain on resources during the winter. Their encounter with the Gronk in the penultimate chapter puts these concerns to rest. "Toccata" is a term most famously associated with Johann Sebastian Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D minor"; a Fugue is a musical term, but it can also refer to a state of dissociation or lost identity, which is exactly what Toccata goes through every time she becomes Aurora. "Brigitta" is a derivative of "Bridget", which can mean "exalted one"; Charlie falls in love with her over the course of the novel.
Early Riser / int_6bda9a30	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_6bda9a30	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_6bda9a30
Early Riser / int_6c3553cd	type	Repressive, but Efficient
Early Riser / int_6c3553cd	comment	Repressive, but Efficient: The government's tight control of both schooling and technical progress makes it so that anyone with a high school diploma has the necessary training to fill any job designated a "Skillzero" position - from a fast food restaurant manager to a filing clerk. Virtually all vehicles are required to have the same set of controls, so anyone who can drive a golf cart can also drive a truck. As described in the supplemental Handbook of Winterology published on author Fforde's website:
Early Riser / int_6c3553cd	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_6c3553cd	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_6c3553cd
Early Riser / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Early Riser / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: Downplayed — Birgitta and Charles go on to have two daughters.
Early Riser / int_6d9bc945	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_6d9bc945	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_6d9bc945
Early Riser / int_7207025	type	Mad Dreamer
Early Riser / int_7207025	comment	Mad Dreamer: The viral dreams afflicting the overwinter crowd who take berths on the 9th Floor of the Sarah Siddons end up driving the dreamers mad. Suzy Watson snapped, attacking customers in the Mrs. Nesbit's tea room and ending up "thumped" by Toccata. Roscoe Smalls walked out into the winter and froze to death to avoid the dreams. Moody snapped and attacked the faÃ§ade of Mrs. Nesbit's with an axe, ending up "thumped" by Agent Hooke.
Early Riser / int_7207025	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_7207025	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_7207025
Early Riser / int_72595768	type	Darwinist Desire
Early Riser / int_72595768	comment	Darwinist Desire: Sister Vulvolia (of the Sisters of Perpetual Gestation) gave birth to thirty-four children, all by different fathers. She picked the men to sire her children based solely on their genetic fitness, and is said to have a "good eye" for genetic variation because all but nine of her children survived their first winter (giving her something close to a 75% batting average for infant survival, which is considered above average). Men and women who are classified as "genetically tier one" or "alpha" can make lucrative careers out of siring children for the discerning customer. Eddie Tangiers was a professional sire-for-hire; Jack Logan "could have charged eye-popping siring fees" (but didn't, to his credit); and Birgitta was offered a five-figure, two-child deal by a pair of surrogacy scouts.
Early Riser / int_72595768	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_72595768	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_72595768
Early Riser / int_78a96b71	type	Safely Secluded Science Center
Early Riser / int_78a96b71	comment	Safely Secluded Science Center: The HiberTech facility does its most dangerous and illegal work during the Winter, when they're safely snowed in and most of the population is asleep.
Early Riser / int_78a96b71	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_78a96b71	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_78a96b71
Early Riser / int_7a81a554	type	Incongruously-Dressed Zombie
Early Riser / int_7a81a554	comment	Incongruously-Dressed Zombie: Some of the Nightwalkers show up wearing strange clothes, or nothing at all. Eddie Tangiers was naked when he suffered neural collapse in his sleep, so when he's discovered he's both totally nude and "displaying a tumescence of considerable size and rigidity." Carmen Miranda, who in this Alternate History did not die in 1955, shows up as an aged woman in a ballgown and a Tutti Frutti Hat. Carmen keeps the fruit hat even after she's been cleaned up and put in a pair of standard coveralls by the Campaign for RealSleep .
Early Riser / int_7a81a554	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_7a81a554	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_7a81a554
Early Riser / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Early Riser / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: Aurora and Toccata are playing a long-distance game of chess, and are both invested in obscure strategies that they hope will pay off and allow them to outmaneuver the other. Because they never seem to run into each other, they have to relay their moves through the various agents who act as go-betweens for HiberTech and the Winter Consul office. Overlaps with Crazy People Play Chess, since Aurora and Toccata are the same person — or at least two personalities sharing the same body.
Early Riser / int_7bd44eb9	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_7bd44eb9	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_7bd44eb9
Early Riser / int_83856158	type	Worthless Yellow Rocks
Early Riser / int_83856158	comment	Worthless Yellow Rocks: Money has no value over the winter, as there's hardly anything to buy; instead, food, favors, and debts are considered far more valuable currency. However, those who do Overwinter work (such as the Winter Consuls and HiberTech agents) are still paid in actual Euros to use during the rest of the year.
Early Riser / int_83856158	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_83856158	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_83856158
Early Riser / int_854b029a	type	Encyclopedia Exposita
Early Riser / int_854b029a	comment	Encyclopedia Exposita: Chapters are prefaced with quotes from in-universe books, pamphlets, speeches, and other media.
Early Riser / int_854b029a	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_854b029a	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_854b029a
Early Riser / int_8573ac0a	type	The Social Darwinist
Early Riser / int_8573ac0a	comment	The Social Darwinist: The majority of the population would prefer to see Morphenox (the drug that increases one's chance of surviving hibernation by turning off the ability to dream) made available to everyone once HiberTech's infrastructure has the capacity to produce enough doses for every man, woman, and child. But there are also those who espouse the belief that hibernation weeds out those who are unfit to survive, and call for Morphenox's distribution to be purposefully restricted even when there's enough to go around. The chapter header for "Over the Hump" provides one such example:
Early Riser / int_8573ac0a	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_8573ac0a	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_8573ac0a
Early Riser / int_895ec17	type	Only in It for the Money
Early Riser / int_895ec17	comment	Only in It for the Money: HiberTech only cares about their bottom line. And if that means letting hundreds and then thousands of people die each year from a curable condition so that they can make money off their labor and organs, so be it. Bondsmen, and in particular Jim Treacle the Bondsman, are active loan sharks using the Winter to squeeze every last euro out of the desperate.
Early Riser / int_895ec17	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_895ec17	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_895ec17
Early Riser / int_8aef3aa4	type	Big Beautiful Man
Early Riser / int_8aef3aa4	comment	Big Beautiful Man / Big Beautiful Woman: Overlaps with Darwinist Desire, as those who have trouble packing on the pounds at the end of summer are pitied (due to the very real chance that they could starve to death while they hibernate) or looked down on as genetically inferior partners. Bulking up with a generous fat reserve pre-hibernation is considered a very attractive look, as it's the biggest factor in determining who survives a harsh winter. Women who want to have children in the spring have to consume even more calories in order to be at a healthy weight to conceive after hibernation — when Charlie sees one of Charles' memories of Birgitta, Charlie is struck by how beautiful and healthy she looks at a "bulked-up-make-baby-in-the-Spring" weight.
Early Riser / int_8aef3aa4	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_8aef3aa4	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_8aef3aa4
Early Riser / int_8b015e1f	type	Flesh-Eating Zombie
Early Riser / int_8b015e1f	comment	Flesh-Eating Zombie: Nightwalkers turn to cannibalism if they aren't fed an adequate supply of comfort food like Snickers bars or Ambrosia Rice Pudding. It's mainly that they'll eat any available source of protein, including the kind that's still alive and screaming.
Early Riser / int_8b015e1f	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_8b015e1f	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_8b015e1f
Early Riser / int_8d1f1cd6	type	Zombie Advocate
Early Riser / int_8d1f1cd6	comment	Zombie Advocate: If any citizen holds the belief that Nightwalkers are anything more than the brain-dead, cannibalistic husks of the people they use to be, they're not stupid enough to publicize the fact. But there are those who risk execution to harbor their loved ones after they turn, hiding the Nightwalkers away and keeping them fed on illegally obtained foodstuffs. The Campaign for RealSleep is full of individuals who go out of their way to protect and rehabilitate Nightwalkers, including Jack Logan, Bronwyn "Jonesy" Jones, Toccata, "Hugo Foulnap"/ "Danny Pockets", Birgitta, Charles Webster, and eventually Charlie. The Campaign fakes the meltdown of the nuclear reactor at the Giraldus Cambrensis at the beginning of winter, with the Campaign members who are part of the Winter Consuls ordering the site evacuated so that they can have a safe place to house the Nightwalkers they've rescued. Josh-the-secretary-from-HiberTech defects to the Campaign for RealSleep, bringing a Nightwalker named Wendy with him.
Early Riser / int_8d1f1cd6	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_8d1f1cd6	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_8d1f1cd6
Early Riser / int_8e647ba9	type	Undercover as Lovers
Early Riser / int_8e647ba9	comment	Undercover as Lovers: In order to not break an Oath he made to Aurora, he tells Toccata that the two of them are bundling; Aurora has a great deal of fun trolling Charlie with this once she finds out.
Early Riser / int_8e647ba9	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_8e647ba9	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_8e647ba9
Early Riser / int_8f8b59c1	type	Inhumanable Alien Rights
Early Riser / int_8f8b59c1	comment	Inhumanable Alien Rights: Once a person suffers neural collapse during hibernation and becomes a "Nightwalker," they're declared legally dead and stripped of all rights. All Nightwalkers can move around and feed themselves, several can speak, and "tricksy" ones can perform skills they possessed before neural collapse (like playing the bouzouki, sketching scenes from life, or translating speech into Morse code), but in the eyes of the law they're either the property of HiberTech or vermin to be eliminated for a bounty.
Early Riser / int_8f8b59c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_8f8b59c1	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_8f8b59c1
Early Riser / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Early Riser / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Don Hector created a form of Morphenox with no side effects, but HiberTech made so much money off Nightwalkers (i.e. those who suffer neural collapse during dreamless Morphenox-induced sleep and are turned into zombified slave labor) that they decided to murder him and cover it all up while making a second, more risky batch instead. Then the Nightwalkers are woken up and nearly everyone abandons Morphenox entirely. HiberTech is left trying to replicate Hector's version after having destroyed all evidence of it.
Early Riser / int_90e31482	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_90e31482	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_90e31482
Early Riser / int_9597a894	type	Sexual Euphemism
Early Riser / int_9597a894	comment	Sexual Euphemism: Intimate activities are referred to as "bundling", and enjoying one's own company is called "bundling with yourself." Partners for such activities can be referred to as the genial sounding "bundlechums," or the less generous "dumbundles."
Early Riser / int_9597a894	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_9597a894	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_9597a894
Early Riser / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Early Riser / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: "Villains" are the deposed English nobility, who deliberately exemplify the worst of British stereotypes. They only speak English (referring to it as the speech of a "civilized" race) kidnap and enslave people to act as their domestic servants, and are incredibly pompous about their rituals and their (largely meaningless) titles.
Early Riser / int_96144372	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_96144372	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_96144372
Early Riser / int_968f633c	type	Flip Personality
Early Riser / int_968f633c	comment	Flip Personality: Whenever Aurora and Toccata switch control, the dominant eye switches.
Early Riser / int_968f633c	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_968f633c	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_968f633c
Early Riser / int_97526efa	type	Sizable Snowflakes
Early Riser / int_97526efa	comment	Sizable Snowflakes: When a blizzard rolls in, there are snowflakes "the size of dinner plates" flying about. Even with the exceptional cold, it's hard to believe they could get that big.
Early Riser / int_97526efa	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_97526efa	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_97526efa
Early Riser / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
Early Riser / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: Deconstructed. This is HiberTech's rationale for everything that they do, creating "the greatest good" for the "greatest majority". Ergo, poisoning, enslaving, and murdering hundreds if not thousands of people by turning them into Nightwalkers is okay because the majority will benefit from having an oppressed underclass to do labor and farm organs from. In their opinion, the convenience of the many outweighs the basic human rights of the few: as long as more people benefit than suffer, you can do anything you want no matter how immoral.
Early Riser / int_9a3b7208	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_9a3b7208	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_9a3b7208
Early Riser / int_9b820eed	type	Breeding Cult
Early Riser / int_9b820eed	comment	Sister Vulvolia (of the Sisters of Perpetual Gestation) gave birth to thirty-four children, all by different fathers. She picked the men to sire her children based solely on their genetic fitness, and is said to have a "good eye" for genetic variation because all but nine of her children survived their first winter (giving her something close to a 75% batting average for infant survival, which is considered above average).
Early Riser / int_9b820eed	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_9b820eed	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_9b820eed
Early Riser / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Early Riser / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: All the criminals who are publicly executed by Frigicution are left in the town square until they thaw or are eaten by wild animals, and a famous bandit's freeze-dried corpse is an exhibit at the Talgarth Museum.
Early Riser / int_9bfb2f41	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_9bfb2f41	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_9bfb2f41
Early Riser / int_9dd2af4a	type	Inspirationally Disadvantaged
Early Riser / int_9dd2af4a	comment	Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Discussed — Charlie has largely made peace with the facial deformity they were born with, but some of Charlie's old poolmates just can't let it go, even as adults:
Early Riser / int_9dd2af4a	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_9dd2af4a	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_9dd2af4a
Early Riser / int_9ddf598a	type	Mundane Object Amazement
Early Riser / int_9ddf598a	comment	Mundane Object Amazement: In a world where everyone hibernates, Laura has what we'd consider a normal human sleep cycle, 8 hours a day all year round. This rare genetic disorder has a lot of people eager to study her genome and Charlie is absolutely fascinated.
Early Riser / int_9ddf598a	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_9ddf598a	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_9ddf598a
Early Riser / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
Early Riser / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: After the negotiation with the Villains, Charlie is the only one that knows that Fodder is trans. Given how seriously childbearing is taken in this world, they keep their mouth shut about it and even help Fodder hide his pregnancy. It's implied that Toccata is a Secret Secret-Keeper, as she doesn't question why Charlie wants to give up their reward for killing Lucky Ned to Fodder.
Early Riser / int_9f970427	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_9f970427	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_9f970427
Early Riser / int_9fb11776	type	Non-Lethal Warfare
Early Riser / int_9fb11776	comment	Non-Lethal Warfare: Pulse armaments are supposed to be this, but in practice, all but three on-screen deaths in the story are due to someone being hit with a pulse weapon and either turning into Chunky Salsa from the force of it, or hitting a barrier at speeds the human body can't handle.
Early Riser / int_9fb11776	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_9fb11776	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_9fb11776
Early Riser / int_9fbf92c3	type	Creator Career Self-Deprecation
Early Riser / int_9fbf92c3	comment	Creator Career Self-Deprecation: Tacotta mentions that she dislikes gaps— gaps in windows, gaps in doors, and especially invoked Sequel Gaps; by the time Early Riser was published, Jasper Fforde's other series had entered various stages of Development Hell, ranging from Six Years with Thursday Next to over a decade with Nursery Crime.
Early Riser / int_9fbf92c3	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_9fbf92c3	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_9fbf92c3
Early Riser / int_a0472bcc	type	Phlebotinum Pills
Early Riser / int_a0472bcc	comment	Phlebotinum Pills: Morphenox is the drug that grants most users a safe, dreamless hibernation.
Early Riser / int_a0472bcc	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_a0472bcc	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_a0472bcc
Early Riser / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
Early Riser / int_a82ff02f	comment	Even later, when Jonesy asks Charlie to come up with a romantic Meet Cute for their invented relationship, Charlie cribs the pantomime horse story from the woman on the train.
Early Riser / int_a82ff02f	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_a82ff02f	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_a82ff02f
Early Riser / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Early Riser / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: The story takes place in an alternate version of the modern world, where the Ice Age still continues and the human population hibernates through winter. Humans bulk up by gorging on fatty foods before they hibernate and grow a hairy "winter coat" to survive the extreme cold. The British Isles don't exist - the story takes place on the "Albion Peninsula," attached to the continent of Europia. Great Britain has, in the real world, been a peninsula of Europe. Great Britain was a peninsula of Europe during the last real-world ice age: ocean levels were much lower, owing to the amount of water locked away in glacial masses. When that ice age ended and the atmosphere warmed, the landbridge known as Doggerland flooded, creating the British Isles we know today. Wales still exists though, and is part of a political entity called the "Northern Federation." The Northern Federation appears to be in conflict with the still extant Ottoman Empire. Both male and female characters are introduced as veterans of either the first or second campaigns in the Ottoman. English nobility was disbanded during the "devastating Class Wars" of the nineteenth century, with the royal family rumored to be living in asylum in British Columbia (or hiding out in a mansionette in the countryside). Other members of the aristocracy have taken to living in the wilderness beyond the reaches of society as bandits called "Villains," occasionally kidnapping citizens keep their hideouts fully staffed with butlers, maids, and pastry chefs. Recognizable brands (Snickers, Jaffa Cakes, Ambrosia Rice, etc...) and cultural figures (like Tom Jones and Sarah Siddons) still exist, but James Bond is instead "Jane Bond." Famous works from Shakespeare and well known Greek myths still exists, but with altered plots that reflect the fact that humans hibernate during the winter as described in Different World, Different Movies below. Brazilian actress Carmen Miranda survived into her 90s in this universe; in our reality, she died at age 46.
Early Riser / int_a86069f	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_a86069f	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_a86069f
Early Riser / int_a91a3b48	type	Gollum Made Me Do It
Early Riser / int_a91a3b48	comment	Gollum Made Me Do It: Played With; Aurora and Toccata are aware of each other, but believe they're separate people. Aurora has a grudge on Toccata and vice-versa. To make matters even more complicated, Toccata is working for La RÃ©sistance and is one of two surviving members of it by the end of the novel, and Aurora is working for the MegaCorp Big Bad HiberTech; The Campaign for Real Sleep keeps Toccata in the dark for fear that Aurora could somehow become aware of what Toccata is doing.
Early Riser / int_a91a3b48	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_a91a3b48	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_a91a3b48
Early Riser / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Early Riser / int_aa8dcc21	comment	MegaCorp: HiberTech is the sole producer and provider of Morphenox, the wonder drug that puts humans into a safe, dream-free hibernatory state and lowers the risk of dying overwinter from early waking and overtaxing neural activity. They've also taken responsibility for managing the unfortunate 1-in-3000 Morphenox users who suffer a total neural collapse during hibernation, turning the mindless, cannibalistic Nightwalkers into productive menial laborers and plentiful organ donors (an industry that generates a considerable amount of value).
Early Riser / int_aa8dcc21	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_aa8dcc21	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_aa8dcc21
Early Riser / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Early Riser / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The Ice Age never ended in this world, and humans have evolved to hibernate during the winter, which has had a knock-on effect for the rest of society. Due to so many people dying in the middle of winter, marriage is considered an out-of-date practice, as opposed to siring children and giving them up for adoption. Children rarely know their biological parents, and aren't even named until they survive their first winter. Dreaming is considered a wasteful use of calories over the winter, and one of the main draws of Morphenox, despite its side effect of potentially turning 1 in 3000 users into a Technically-Living Zombie, is the fact that the user Cannot Dream. Those who do dream, or worse, stay awake during the winter without reason (referred to as "winsomniacs") are treated as drains upon society, as over-winter food supplies are meant to be used for those who are members of the Winter Consulate, HiberTech employees, or other critical functions, such as the porters among Dormotoria. It's mentioned at one point that projectile weaponry (i.e. guns) are seen as a more humane alternative to certain applications of "non-lethal" pulse weaponry.
Early Riser / int_aabe2fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_aabe2fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_aabe2fb
Early Riser / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Early Riser / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Charlie's exceptional memory, particularly the ability to remember a random string of words, comes in handy at the very end of the novel: the cylinder might have been destroyed, but Charlie can still remember what it said.
Early Riser / int_acecb17d	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_acecb17d	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_acecb17d
Early Riser / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Early Riser / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Charlie is usually quite polite but whenever a stranger makes a rude comment about their facial deformity, the response is generally a snappy retort that turns the rudeness back against the original commenter.
Early Riser / int_ae3d6438	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_ae3d6438	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_ae3d6438
Early Riser / int_aef85c54	type	Eerie Arctic Research Station
Early Riser / int_aef85c54	comment	Eerie Arctic Research Station: Zig-Zagged — Sector 12 isn't in the Antarctic, it's in Wales. But the encroaching ice sheets from the north result in regular blizzards and -40 degree temperatures that make the land little better than the arctic in winter time. HiberTech's research facilities and manufacturing plant are situated in Sector 12, far from the prying eyes of competitors, the machinations of political extremists, or government oversight.
Early Riser / int_aef85c54	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_aef85c54	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_aef85c54
Early Riser / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Early Riser / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: It appears that parents have the legal right to wager their children's reproductive or marital futures for their own gain, and often do so. Two of the women Charlie meets in Sector 12 are victims of this, as detailed under Financial Abuse below.
Early Riser / int_b11ac9f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_b11ac9f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_b11ac9f5
Early Riser / int_b1e9444f	type	Baby Factory
Early Riser / int_b1e9444f	comment	Baby Factory: Women who don't give birth or adopt "partial custody" of a child can be prosecuted on the charge of "Evading Childbearing." The Sisters of Perpetual Gestation run child rearing pools (i.e. orphanages), and their religious calling dictates they fill the pools with as many children as possible... by giving birth as many times as they're physically able to do so. Even leadership in the sisterhood seems to linked to one's ability to give birth, with Mother Fallopia claiming that her decision to step down from the position of Mother Superior is due to "slackening of fertility" (after she had given birth to 28 infants).
Early Riser / int_b1e9444f	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_b1e9444f	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_b1e9444f
Early Riser / int_bacf8e98	type	Preserve Your Gays
Early Riser / int_bacf8e98	comment	Preserve Your Gays: It's low-key, but the trans character Fodder is one of very few named characters who survives to the Epilogue.
Early Riser / int_bacf8e98	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_bacf8e98	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_bacf8e98
Early Riser / int_bbd25056	type	Eunuchs Are Evil
Early Riser / int_bbd25056	comment	Eunuchs Are Evil: Downplayed; Porters are said to be traditionally eunuchs, and while Lloyd isn't evil, his tendency to gossip without concern for consequences makes Charlie's life a lot harder.
Early Riser / int_bbd25056	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_bbd25056	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_bbd25056
Early Riser / int_c49935fa	type	20 Minutes into the Past
Early Riser / int_c49935fa	comment	20 Minutes into the Past: Acording to the Handbook of Winterology on Fforde's website, the novel takes place in an alternate 2003, but was released in 2018. The mention of Carmen Miranda being 94 years old backs this up.
Early Riser / int_c49935fa	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_c49935fa	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_c49935fa
Early Riser / int_c60e9e0c	type	Bullying the Disabled
Early Riser / int_c60e9e0c	comment	Bullying the Disabled: Gary Findlay, one of Charlie's pool-mates, bullied Charlie for their facial deformity until Charlie snapped at the age of nine and bit Gary's ear off.
Early Riser / int_c60e9e0c	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_c60e9e0c	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_c60e9e0c
Early Riser / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Early Riser / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Nightwalkers who have been repurposed for domestic servitude are called Janes and Edwards. The character of Mrs. Nesbit, a mascot for a chain of restaurants, is said to regenerate every few years a la Doctor Who. Most of the Dormotoria are named after famous people; two of the most important ones in the novel are the Sarah Siddons and the Geraldus Cambriensis.
Early Riser / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_c75df49a
Early Riser / int_ca3c0642	type	Mammoths Mean Ice Age
Early Riser / int_ca3c0642	comment	Mammoths Mean Ice Age: The work takes place in an alternate present where ice age megafauna like mammoths, glyptodonts, giant tree sloths, and saber-tooth tigers never died out because the last ice age never ended.
Early Riser / int_ca3c0642	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_ca3c0642	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_ca3c0642
Early Riser / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Early Riser / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: After Jonsey gets mortally wounded by Lucy, Charlie helps her get her hands on a pulse charge that's strapped to her, which she detonates when Lucy comes out of the Dormotoria to finish her off.
Early Riser / int_caf89e54	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_caf89e54	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_caf89e54
Early Riser / int_cb9d4c1b	type	Snowy Sabertooths
Early Riser / int_cb9d4c1b	comment	Snowy Sabertooths: Zig-Zagged — the work takes place in an alternate present where ice age fauna like mammoths and saber-tooth tigers did not die out due to climate change. They survived up till modern times in the ongoing ice age, though the saber-tooth tigers are endangered and possibly extinct due to conflict with human settlements. It's mentioned that the fifth-to-last saber tooth tiger was killed when it was hit by a bus (and the remains are on view in Talgarth's museum).
Early Riser / int_cb9d4c1b	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_cb9d4c1b	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_cb9d4c1b
Early Riser / int_d32b4ca3	type	Pantomime Animal
Early Riser / int_d32b4ca3	comment	Pantomime Animal: A running joke: Charlie strikes up a conversation with an overwinter performer on the train, and the woman describes meeting her late husband when they performed as the "front and back halves of a pantomime horse." Later, when Charlie need a plausible excuse to be on the elevator to the 21st floor of a Dormitorium while holding a bouzouki, Charlie claims that they're the back-end of a pantomime horse in an overwinter talent show. Even later, when Jonesy asks Charlie to come up with a romantic Meet Cute for their invented relationship, Charlie cribs the pantomime horse story from the woman on the train.
Early Riser / int_d32b4ca3	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_d32b4ca3	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_d32b4ca3
Early Riser / int_d50f42d	type	Skyscraper City
Early Riser / int_d50f42d	comment	Skyscraper City: Due to the vast amounts of Dormotoria that people sleep in over the long winter, several places in the novel are this. Supplemental material states that standard Dormotoria in the United Kingdom are 480 feet tall, about the height of the Park Row building in Lower Manhattan.
Early Riser / int_d50f42d	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_d50f42d	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_d50f42d
Early Riser / int_d854461	type	Chemical Messiah
Early Riser / int_d854461	comment	Chemical Messiah: Morphenox, whose effects are described under Fantastic Drug below. Morphenox is so important to one's chances of surviving hibernation that doses are only guaranteed for government workers and highly trained individuals like doctors or nuclear physicists — the general public is left to scramble for the limited doses available for sale.
Early Riser / int_d854461	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_d854461	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_d854461
Early Riser / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Early Riser / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Downplayed — Charlie was born with an extensive facial deformity which is hinted at, but not explained until several chapters in. Strangers who would have otherwise commented on it simply don't, until Charlie describes it, at which point Toccata, the Notable Charlotte Goodnight, and Shaman Bob all bring it up in conversation.
Early Riser / int_d99a228f	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_d99a228f	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_d99a228f
Early Riser / int_dc0ca62a	type	Public Execution
Early Riser / int_dc0ca62a	comment	Public Execution: "Frigicution" is a form of execution where the condemned is chained up in a town square to freeze to death. Upon waking up from an accidental hibernation, Charlie sees that a criminal has been executed in just such a manner (for smuggling drugs out of HiberTech) in the month or so Charlie was asleep. The punishment is still widely employed throughout Wales (and possibly the rest of the Northern Federation), as the chapter header for "The Wincarnis" reads:
Early Riser / int_dc0ca62a	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_dc0ca62a	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_dc0ca62a
Early Riser / int_dc841707	type	Room Full of Zombies
Early Riser / int_dc841707	comment	Room Full of Zombies: Porter Lloyd has been storing Nightwalkers in the basement of the Sarah Siddons Dormitorium to make a bit of extra cash. The canned nightwalkers (whose cravings for human flesh can only be sated by high-calorie junk food) are fed a handful of turnips every few days in order to keep them alive. When Charlie needs to get to the Sno-Trac vehicle in the parking garage, they have to navigate six hungry Nightwalkers in the dark. The Giraldus Cambrensis was supposed to be emptied out following a boiler meltdown that would have destroyed the miniature nuclear power plant in the basement, leaving the building frigid and highly radioactive. When Charlie takes shelter from a blizzard there, they find it's full of Nightwalkers. Campaign for RealSleep agents Jonesy and Toccata were harboring them in the supposedly abandoned building, rather than killing the Nightwalkers or turning them over to HiberTech to be parted out.
Early Riser / int_dc841707	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_dc841707	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_dc841707
Early Riser / int_e0904aa4	type	No Party Like a Donner Party
Early Riser / int_e0904aa4	comment	No Party Like a Donner Party: Referred to as "Winter Cutlets", the last resort for overwinterers if food supplies run out and they have to feed their charges. It never actually happens, but it's threatened and joked about often, including the recurring joke that Toccata eats Nightwalkers with mint sauce.
Early Riser / int_e0904aa4	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_e0904aa4	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_e0904aa4
Early Riser / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Early Riser / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: It's revealed when Charlie encounters Lucky Ned that up until that point, everyone in the novel had been speaking Welsh translated into English.
Early Riser / int_e11b003d	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_e11b003d	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_e11b003d
Early Riser / int_e5cffa61	type	Dreaming of Times Gone By
Early Riser / int_e5cffa61	comment	Dreaming of Times Gone By: Invoked — part of the viral dream infesting the Sarah Siddons involves the dreamer dreaming that they've become Don Hector (the inventor of Morphenox) sitting on a pile of boulders at the base of a huge oak tree. As Charlie discovers, this isn't just a dream but an actual memory of Don Hector's that became a dream-trap for anyone trying to explore Don Hector's recorded dreams. It's those recorded dreams/memories that HiberTech is playing back, projecting them into the minds of the sleepers at the Sarah Siddons.
Early Riser / int_e5cffa61	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_e5cffa61	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_e5cffa61
Early Riser / int_e94ff7e2	type	Financial Abuse
Early Riser / int_e94ff7e2	comment	Financial Abuse: Overlaps with Parental Abuse, as parents in the world of Early Riser have can buy, sell, or wager their children's reproductive and/or marital futures for their own gain: Laura's parents sold the genetic options to her firstborn child in order to pay off their gambling debts. Laura has a rare thyroid condition that makes her unable to sleep most of the time (and unable to hibernate like the rest of the population), which makes HiberTech very interested in her genes and the genes of any of her prospective children. The debt was eventually sold to Jim Treacle the bondsman, but not before the courts capped the legal cost of her child-bearing debt at 50,000 euros — making it possible for her to "buy back" the debt (albeit at an exorbitant cost). Laura is so desperate to escape from under that debt that she wagered the genetic rights to her second child to the same Jim Treacle, just for the chance keep her future children free. Charlie tells her that things could have been worse, as her parents could have legally harvested and sold her eggs when she turned 16 and no-one would have batted an eye. Jonesy's mother bartered away Jonesy's hand in marriage to Jim Treacle as collateral for a loan. Jonesy has been trying to avoid a direct proposal from Treacle, because if she denies him her mother's house will be forfeit.
Early Riser / int_e94ff7e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_e94ff7e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_e94ff7e2
Early Riser / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
Early Riser / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: The "Handbook of Winterology", a bit of tie-in material on Fforde's website, states that Dormotoria are constructed from Perpetulite, a substance that also shows up in Shades of Grey. Toccata also says she hopes Aurora catches the Mildew, a fatal disease in that same world.
Early Riser / int_eb7c34cf	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_eb7c34cf	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_eb7c34cf
Early Riser / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Early Riser / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Just when it seems Aurora is going to torture Charlie to death inside their own mind, the Gronk comes in, takes control, and obliterates her with the sheer shame of what she's been doing.
Early Riser / int_eb81c601	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_eb81c601	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_eb81c601
Early Riser / int_ed2bbf8a	type	You Are in Command Now
Early Riser / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: After all the other RealSleep individuals (sans Toccata, who is not reliable) are killed, Charlie is left as "Kiki" for the final showdown. It gets close, but they are able to defeat Aurora and broadcast the signal.
Early Riser / int_ed2bbf8a	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_ed2bbf8a	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_ed2bbf8a
Early Riser / int_edf8db61	type	Oh, My Gods!
Early Riser / int_edf8db61	comment	Oh, My Gods!: Downplayed; several Greek and Roman gods, particularly Morpheus, God of Sleep and Dreams, are invoked throughout the novel, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence of the Christian faith.
Early Riser / int_edf8db61	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_edf8db61	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_edf8db61
Early Riser / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Early Riser / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Charlie's name is similar to Birgitta's husband, Charles Webster. When Birgitta turns into a Nightwalker, she's only able to say the phrase "I love you, Charlie," as "Charlie" was her nickname for her husband. It gives protagonist Charlie quite a shock to hear the supposedly brain-dead Birgitta declare her love for them, before Charlie realizes the origin of the phrase.
Early Riser / int_ee7a60e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_ee7a60e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_ee7a60e9
Early Riser / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
Early Riser / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The perks of joining the Winter Consul, as listed off by Jack Logan during Charlie's interview:
Early Riser / int_eef90616	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_eef90616	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_eef90616
Early Riser / int_f33316f1	type	Crazy People Play Chess
Early Riser / int_f33316f1	comment	Crazy People Play Chess: Aurora and Toccata have a long-distance game of chess going. They're revealed to be two halves of a Split Personality.
Early Riser / int_f33316f1	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_f33316f1	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_f33316f1
Early Riser / int_f3594e1	type	The All-Concealing "I"
Early Riser / int_f3594e1	comment	The All-Concealing "I": The novel is written from protagonist Charlie's point of view. This allows author Fforde to keep viewers in the dark about Charlie's facial deformity for the first few chapters, and about Charlie's gender for the rest of the novel due to the gender-neutral writing.
Early Riser / int_f3594e1	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_f3594e1	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_f3594e1
Early Riser / int_f3eabaef	type	Undeath Is Cheap
Early Riser / int_f3eabaef	comment	Undeath Is Cheap: Foulnap was once a Nightwalker, but woke up one day, letting the RealSleep people know the condition was curable. Don Hector found a rhythm of words to wake up Nightwalkers and recorded it on a cylinder, which HiberTech are searching for to find and destroy. In the end, Charlie recites the cylinder's contents for all to hear and wakes up the Nightwalkers of Sector Twelve, leading to a mass curing and the end of Morphenox.
Early Riser / int_f3eabaef	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_f3eabaef	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_f3eabaef
Early Riser / int_f4e7d498	type	Tutti Frutti Hat
Early Riser / int_f4e7d498	comment	Tutti Frutti Hat: The Technically-Living Zombie of Carmen Miranda is spotted wearing a ballgown and one such fruit hat.
Early Riser / int_f4e7d498	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_f4e7d498	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_f4e7d498
Early Riser / int_f5b42c55	type	Global Warming
Early Riser / int_f5b42c55	comment	Global Warming: It's mentioned that this is being actively encouraged in an effort to shorten the winter, with coal being a primary power source to try and trap greenhouse gases and melt the ice; however, an Encyclopedia Exposita excerpt shows that due to a lack of coordination in efforts to induce climate change, it's speculated that the entire northern hemisphere will be an ice sheet by the end of the 2200s.
Early Riser / int_f5b42c55	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_f5b42c55	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_f5b42c55
Early Riser / int_f609fcfe	type	Fictional Holiday
Early Riser / int_f609fcfe	comment	Fictional Holiday: Fat Thursday, which takes place two months before the beginning of the unforgiving, 120-day-long "month" of Winter:
Early Riser / int_f609fcfe	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_f609fcfe	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_f609fcfe
Early Riser / int_f8ecb0a1	type	Glorified Sperm Donor
Early Riser / int_f8ecb0a1	comment	Glorified Sperm Donor: Jack Logan resembles several of the children from Saint Granata's Pooled Parentage Station (and he is intimate/ familiar with Mother Fallopia). It's strongly implied that he's their biological father, and that he donated his genetic material out of a sense of duty.
Early Riser / int_f8ecb0a1	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_f8ecb0a1	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_f8ecb0a1
Early Riser / int_f909b16b	type	Dark Secret
Early Riser / int_f909b16b	comment	Dark Secret: HiberTech is willing to murder and steal to cover up a very valuable secret: that Nightwalkers are in fact curable, and always have been. Since this would make "parting them out" murder and "redeploying" slavery, they've gone to great lengths to hide the cure and get rid of anyone who knows about it.
Early Riser / int_f909b16b	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_f909b16b	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_f909b16b
Early Riser / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Early Riser / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: The Sisters of Perpetual Gestation all take on monastic names relating to fertility, genitalia, and parturition. Mother Fallopia runs the pool where protagonist Charlie was raised, alongside Sister Contractia, Sister Fertizilia, Sister Placentia, Sister Zygotia, and Sister Umbilica. There's also Sister Vulvolia in Sector fifty-one. Several characters are also named after motifs dealing with sleep, such as Lucy Knapp (nap) and Charlotte Goodnight.
Early Riser / int_fd94c4ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_fd94c4ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_fd94c4ac
Early Riser / int_name	type	ItemName
Early Riser / int_name	comment
Early Riser / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
Early Riser / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
Early Riser	hasFeature	Early Riser / int_name
Early Riser / int_name	itemName	Early Riser

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Early Riser	hasFeature	Big, Fat Future / int_531b76f3
Early Riser	hasFeature	Braving the Blizzard / int_531b76f3
Early Riser	hasFeature	Bullying the Disabled / int_531b76f3
Early Riser	hasFeature	Different World, Different Movies / int_531b76f3
Early Riser	hasFeature	Dismemberment Is Cheap / int_531b76f3
Early Riser	hasFeature	English Literature / int_531b76f3
Early Riser	hasFeature	Fictional Holiday / int_531b76f3
Early Riser	hasFeature	Financial Abuse / int_531b76f3
Early Riser	hasFeature	Flip Personality / int_531b76f3
Early Riser	hasFeature	Intentional Weight Gain / int_531b76f3
Early Riser	hasFeature	Rip Van Tinkle / int_531b76f3
Early Riser	hasFeature	Rummage Sale Reject / int_531b76f3
Early Riser	hasFeature	The All-Concealing "I" / int_531b76f3
Early Riser	hasFeature	Tutti Frutti Hat / int_531b76f3

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.