Better as Friends: Gardener and Bobbi used to be lovers, but by the time the book is set, they're just friends though they end up having sex once more.Berserk Button: Don't praise nuclear power in front of Gardener.Auto Erotica: Gardener remembers that he and Bobbi once had sex in her truck "during some stupid Ryan O'Neal picture".An editor tells him "Poetry and politics rarely mix, poetry and propaganda never." He sent it to five different publishers, and it was rejected by all five. Author Tract: In-story example: Gardener wrote a collection of poems under the title "The Radiation Cycle", which were basically anti-nuclear propaganda.Stephen King had substance abuse problems for years, and it sneaked into his writing a lot (much to his own surprise, after he sobered up enough to notice). Atmosphere Abuse: A non-planetwide example: the transformed residents of Haven manipulate the air in and to a certain elevation above their town into something that is both more breathable for them and toxic enough to any entering humans to make them turn back, sick, shortly after crossing the town line, as well as oxygen-poor enough to prevent internal-combustion engines from functioning.
She's such a horrible person that Gardener doesn't particularly mind when he finds out that Bobbi turned her into a Living Battery he's far more disturbed by Bobbi doing the same to her dog.
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