Novel

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* See also BS1, BS2, Minervas_Den, SitS
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==NOTE - THE NOVEL LARGELY REFLECTS THE STORY EXPOSED WITHIN THE GAME, A STORY SUBJECT TO THE WRITERS' MISLEADING MANIPULATIONS TO COVER UP A GAME PLOT TWIST== 
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Published : John Shirley, Tor Books, 2011
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"BioShock: Rapture" -- Novel which elaborates on the storylines of the BioShock games BS1/BS2
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In the Novel, the Author John Shirely, extrapolates some of the story lines, and expands on some of the characters ( the game itself is very Vague : being really a Shooter Game and not a 'Novel' ). Much is inferred, but not explicitly mentioned. Much of the game reflected are also strangely written and illogical. 
One of the problems I saw with the Novel was : Things that were left vague in the game -- various evidence/partial information, often comes from the in-game characters voicing what is their opinion, and being only from their own biased perspective ( Or maybe from their ADAM-addled mind ). Such distortions in the game were, in the Novel, turned into narrative fact -- then those opinions were often extrapolated/expanded much further in far more detail (multiplying the distortion).
Unfortunately, that led to the author latching onto the vague/half-seen illogical weirdness in the game, and then extending some rather odd assumptions even further. Shirley (the author) creatively explains some things, but has no answer for and ignores many strange game story elements ( For example : Things which are simply against the Laws of Physics ) -- or WORSE reinforces them. The book goes a bit far trying to be 'Explainy' about the 'Science' ( things like the magic that ADAM does - inferring a little too much 'Psi' PsionicPsionic - relating to or denoting the practical use of psychic powers or paranormal phenomena. type powers for ADAM's Plasmid operation ).
There is a great deal of repeating of many speech/events/details directly from the game, but then he makes many attempts to further explain some of the game plot/story/motives with further elaborations ( many of them logical/plausible ). Character interactions and relations are significantly expanded upon.
One thing noticeable : Shirley moves certain events and circumstances significantly forward in time. Some story elements get pushed far earlier in his 'clarifications' ( when the game left them far-less precisely defined ). The ADAM madness and violence ( and public awareness of it ) are shown to happen much earlier, contradicting situations and event times in the Computer Games ( and making absurd many of the reason for certain events happening ---- AND certain other thing are NOT happening WHEN they should be ). 
Much of the computer game's story was told by Atlas, who (in the game YOU eventually learn) lied about most of what he has previously told you. That original game material ( the bits recounted by Atlas ) is thus NOT actually factual narration. The Book's differences in event timings, severity of happenings, and the situation in Rapture, and the citizens reactions (IN THE NOVEL) may not necessarily be wrong.
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Example of a Technical Error from contents of the Novel : (Shirley has Ryan and McDonagh (in 1946) fly near to Rapture's building site, and saying : Its in a converted B-24 'Liberator', and calling it a StratoCruiser 'prototype'. The "Stratorcruiser" was ACTUALLY a modified B-29 ( a far larger plane, and the first of those commercial mods flew in 1947 ). HE Just as easily have made the plane a Lockheed Constellation transport plane (available in 1943). Such sloppiness of details are throughout the NovelThis is simply Stupid because : the Research to obtain the details used in the Book took exactly the same effort as it would have to get it done correctly..
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Rapture Novel - More Of The Same :
The Novel's author takes things further, elaborating upon various details mentioned in the game.
Unfortunately many of these elaborations are contradictory to the game details, or just go along with the original story's illogic :
* For a 'Science Fiction' author ( if he is even classified as such ) Shirley has little understanding of 'deep underwater' effects on light and water pressure -- He simply regurgitates alot of faulty details from the game.
* In having Ryan deciding to go after Fontaine 2 years BEFORE the 1958 event ( 'Shootout' where Fontaine is killed ), and having the city being greatly terrorized by Splicers. Those are things which the populace would NOT have put up with ( and likely gone after ADAM as a public hazard, and Fontaine as an instigator of the poison ).
* Parts of Rapture being RIGHT NEAR the Ocean surface in some scenes, 'for effect', but being wholly illogical ( a great way for any passing icebergs to destroy any such buildings ). Also the continuing of 'views' of Ocean wildlife which don't actually live at the depths which most of Rapture allegedly exists at.
* Sofia Lamb is further shown with the rather convenient ability to sway everyone she comes in contact with ( but there's never anyone shown who counters her manipulations, and denounces her, or reports on her subversive ideas in the Press -- THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD STORY VIGNETTE - How Sofia Lamb was 'exiled' ).
* A general lack of explanations of Rapture's economic mechanisms, allegedly with people out of work, but with lots of work which still needed to have gotten done (contrived 'class warfare'). Likewise, lacking the concept of price adjustments of costs/prices ( as in : rents going down rather than having the owners have huge numbers of rental residences empty and earning no income ).
* Too many people in Rapture have a (modern) "I'll be taken care of" mentality, which wouldn't have existed ( didn't fit the people/society of that time ). Rapture (especially) was supposed to be full of capable people and NOT so many Welfare addicts/drones.
* The Novel mentions that alot of ADAM is being bought by 'poor' people, and making Fontaine rich -- Giving him the money for his 'poor houses'. How do 'poor' people afford it ? ( Remember, they also make SUCH a point of there being SO VERY MANY 'poor' people in the computer game's story ... ) And if ADAM is so addictive, THAT would have been quite obvious quite early ( SO MANY ADDICTS !!! ), causing/having it to be loudly DENOUNCED by Rapture's Free Press. Another one of Objectivism's important Institutions is defused and NOT allowed to operate in order to facilitate the story Failtopia
* A good question might be : DID ADAM debilitate so many - MAKING them poor, rather than 'It is ALL Ryan's Fault' ??? Keeping them then 'poor' is in Fontaine's/Atlas's interest (not Ryan's).
* Poor desperately-addicted people empowered with Plasmids would be robbing Fontaine's 'dealers' -- which even if suppressed with violence, could NOT avoid being heard of in Rapture's Press ( nor of impacting his profits ). Fontaine trying to quash such coverage ITSELF would be newsworthy, and a Ryan-protected Press could NOT be silenced ( and would be a wedge Ryan WOULD use against a criminal Fontaine ). BUT, the story writers MANAGE TO HAVE the Press contradictorily denouncing Ryan *AND* have important things like this go ignored/unmentioned.
* A general lack of reactions from Rapture's ordinary people/citizenry, who DON'T EVER seem to take the actions likely of people from that era -- For them to actually do things for themselves (and collectively) to protect their 'way of life'.
* ADAM is poisoning his (Ryan's) City, so instead of using that fact to condemn Fontaine, Ryan decides to go into the business himself ( possibly to make 'improved' products that don't warp minds ... eventually --- All while the ADAM-caused mayhem is shown as a threat to public safety and Rapture's stability/survival ). In the Novel, Crazies roam the streets long before BS1's narrative, via Atlas's lies, allows. Ryan can't/wont ban or regulate, but also apparently Shirley can't/wont allow people to go after the poison-maker for the damage Fontaine's product does ( or have any Press warnings/denunciation/condemnation of ADAM and its maker ). The Free Press covering such things is ignored/nullified ( as if it is later in 'wartime' Rapture ).
* McDonagh (making a tape) saying that Fontaine is the enemy ( Building "a Splicer Army" to takeover Rapture ) and must be stopped, but then is shown to go against Ryan for taking actions against the Terrorists/Anarchists.
* Children being abused by Fontaine, but nobody EVER seems to learn of it ( or the populace WOULD have simply lynched Fontaine -- because that didn't "fit" the story the game writers wanted ). Again it would have been something tangible Ryan could use to rid Rapture of its worst Parasite.
* Novel says 1959 'civil war' Atlas 'controls' 40% of Rapture, and Sofia Lamb another smaller chunk ( It doesn't state each sides population in those places though ). The obvious tactic of TURNING OFF the AIR/ POWER/HEAT/WATER to these troublemaker's strongholds is never mentioned/suggested. Cutting Off transport would starve the rebels - If there were any real numbers of them ( beyond what 'Atlas' could manage to supply them with ). Again, the loyal population in the story is passive, and apparently still does nothing (is not allowed by the writer) for their own good.
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Novel Differences :
check timeline vs game evidence
The Novel has Sofia Lamb arriving 1950. Was there sufficient population and time to have the "closed/too-close environment" effect to be seen as a problem for the citizens already ? Indirectly, that would allow time for Ryan to have added/finished more 'people' facilities ( Like the Arcadia 'park', museums, 'Carnival', Ryan Amusements, Stadium ( with Sports ), Sander Cohens Theater, etc ...
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The Novel story has Tenenbaum discovering the ADAM Sea Slugs in 1950. That might be Better : It can give some earlier MMORPG story lead-time for Rapture's ADAM development, versus some 'Wave of the hand' over-simplified/unlikely-easiness/too-accelerated-events as seen repeatedly in the weak Infinite BS fantasy. The Sea Slug discovery date in BS1 is vague, so the MMORPG could use that 1950 date.
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Fontaine shows up pretty early (1948) in the Novel, but without ADAM he's doing fishing (as his cover) and organizing his Smuggling ( which elsewhere I've explained CANNOT be anywhere near profitable enough to build his so story-large 'empire', which is supposed to be the seed money for the whole ADAM business/industry later ). OK - more time to setup his operation(s) and recruit thugs and do his many criminal activities, etc ... ( but conveniently be completely hidden from Ryan/the law/etc ...) 
Serious ADAM development is detailed in the Novel ( cute scenes like a dangerous Teleporting Splicer, and an unfortunate human blob - intermediary results/failures of the ADAM experimentation ).
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Problematic Fisherman : 
Fontaine ( radio- Olympus Heights, when YOU are after him ) : "I've got twelve years down here" 
The Novel has Fontaine find out about Rapture and manage to go there, while it is is still building - His cover running a small fishing fleet. Thus demonstrating Fontaine being in Rapture ~ 1960-12 years = ~1948 ( Add on some time up on the surface ocean running the fishing operation (fleet) before his entry to Rapture ).
How exactly did fish get from trawlers into Rapture ? ( Obviously More transfer facilities are needed at the Lighthouse than just those Bathyspheres ). 
Rapture's location is also 3000+ miles from the nearest North American base/port and ~4000 from US East Coast, so a less than convenient operation. 
Funny thing is : Fontaine probably knew absolutely NOTHING about Ocean Fishing (nor about Submarines), and how likely was it he would recruit competent crews when he was an unknown. Small boats (let alone a 'fleet') are dangerous enough on the Ocean ( better yet to be in the North Atlantic ) without a total ignoramus being involved ). Anyone knowing the old/original 'Fontaine' ( per the Novel, our Fontaine kills that person and assumes their identity ) would quickly know it wasn't him. Finding experienced 'crews' ( for a small fleet of boats ) from among the thugs Fontaine previous knew -- that is another unlikely event.
The Novel has Fontaine propose fishing submarines for Rapture to Ryan. There is a hundred more wrong things with THAT idea.
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PAGE BY PAGE ANALYSIS
page 101 - Author Shirley doesn't even understand water Real_Physics#LightAbsorptionLight Absorbtion ( basic reality - Physics ) - and HE was supposedly a 'Science Fiction' writer ???? ( He could have mentioned how dark it was out in the water with distance - with nearby buildings and signs 'standing out' ... )
page 103 - The "Sinclair Deluxe" existing too early ?? year ?? Maybe he had a different place already named that BEFORE he build/refurbished the one in Paupers Drop ??? ( That earlier place would be a good one to find in the MMORPG )
page 220 - Hints that Ryan previously married (on Surface)??
Mentions in 1955 about Plasmids, that Ryan is getting interested in the ADAM industry ( then shown to be profitable enough ? ) , though MEDICAL USE was probably (early) the initial business opportunity All starting with Tenenbaums Healed Hand Incident 
Page 221 (year 1955) - 18000 Population - ( Population from Records of Immigration ?? )
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Page 377 Sloppy Shirley History
In his attempt to add to the original story narrative about Tenenbaum's past ( in some kind of allusion of hers to the Big Daddy/Little Sisters relationship ), has Tenenbaum as a child in in Belorussia "before the war" , and have the Nazis ( German Officer all metal/Big Daddy-like ) there taking away jews(?)/troublemakers (her family) and seizing her. When in fact, it was the Soviets who invaded and occupied Belorussia when the war started in 1939. ( The eastern part of Belorussia was part of the Soviet Belorussian SSR (from 1922), and the western Belorussia was part of Poland ). So no mention of that Hell for the people before WW2 started.
This is a rather Sloppy expansion of the game's storyline which a tiny bit of history research could have avoided. This was the writer's attempt to expand Tenenbaum's personal history, which had led to her being in the German concentration camp - Used in a scene where Tenenbaum finally realizes and decides to 'Save' the Little Sisters trapped and abused because of her actions, which turned them into slave Slug-Hosts/ADAM-generators.
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Ryan's Background :
The Novel says Ryan left Russia (near Minsk) 1918. He was around 12. 
It mentions Ryan's father "got word from the priest" ( probably not exactly what a Jew would getSee Authentic Diversity ...) A 'Priest' also woulda been the one of the first ones the Bolshies 'Rounded Up ', No ? 
??? need date on this 1918-1919 ??
Allegations create by Ken Levine now saying Ryan was a Jew as part of his new "Authentic Diversity" spiel(2015), since he'd been trying to talk up a new job, and a new game producing studio. Revisionisms ... even by people who were the Canon originators, is not necessarily 'Canon' also.
Historically, it was a fairly complicated situation there for the place Ryan is supposed to come from - near Minsk in Belorussia, now Belarus ( details in the Novel which BTW does not mention 'jew' anything in its elaborations of Ryan's origins ) :
Minsk in period Ryan was supposedly a child there (as per Novel) :
* 1813–1917 To Russian Empire
* 1918–1918 Under German occupation during WW1
* 1918–1919 To Belarusian National Republic
* 1919–1919 To Belorussian SSR
* 1919–1920 Under Polish occupation (actually changed hands twice)
* 1921–1941 To Belorussian SSR, since 1922 in the Soviet Union
The scene in the Novel is soon after the Russian Revolution, when Ryan was 12 years old and is forced to flee with his father as he sees his relatives being killed by the Communists.
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The Novel has Fontaine's Minions Killing City Constables in the Streets in 1956/1957 :
And yet Ryan's security still doesn't trace it back to Fontaine and arrest him -- probably because it has to be handled 'Legally'. 'Innocent until Proven Guilty', isn't quite the "Pigeon-holed" "Ryan's a Tyrant" narrative the game writers foist on the Player to assist in their 'help Atlas' twist-plot. Rapture's Press hardly reacts to the whole Splicer mayhem situation.
Unfortunately by clarifying the game's vague storyline ( which didn't mention such (early) anti-authority violence in Rapture -- a Fontaine disruption to Ryan's authority before his own 'power play') into specifics of that kind of activity, the Novel pushes the original story setting into greater unbelievability. Rapture is actually TOO SMALL A PLACE for such overt actions to NOT be noticed and traced back to its source - and thus ending Fontaine almost immediately. 
In the games story, after Kashmir, Ryan starts instituting stronger Security Measures to try to maintain order/protect the populace, and to isolate and COUNTER what the Anarchists 'egged on by' Atlas(Fontaine) are doing to disorder Rapture ( which thus explains starting to add Security Cameras in many places, and pushes the development of ( lets please allow some time for this ) the Flybot security units -- Something unlikely to be done earlier or with much priority before the full disruptions of the %27civil war%27's Terrorism and Splicer-caused destruction really significantly increases ...
Fontaine (in BS1) pulled his switch of identity/faked death probably because he figured out that it was 'just a matter of time' for the Authorities to trace/discover his many crimes ( and that Ryan WOULD 'put him out of business', and Fontaine would go to Prison exile like Sofia Lamb had. )
So here we have another MMORPG Canon issue : The Novel's "take" on Rapture's history ??? How much of it to use, and how much to abandon as problematical.
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Ivan Karlosky (Per The Novel) :
"Karlosky continued to be loyal to Ryan even in the final days of 'the war' when Ryan began hanging the bodies of traitors on the columns outside his office door in Hephaestus."
Karlosky was Ryan's bodyguard in the Novel story. He probably shot a number of those traitors during the assassination attempts and supervised the 'display' of the traitors bodies.
Considering that most of the 'trophies' tried to Assassinate Ryan, it hardly seems something that would 'even' be an issue with most Citizens ( By then Atlas's Terrorists were trying to kill THEM every day ... ). Consider that Ryan is trying to communicate and get through to mentally-affected Splicers about the consequences of their actions -- Any kind of subtlety would NOT be overly effective.
Neither the game's Plot, nor the Novel, really speak much for most of the Rapture Citizen's who are loyalty to Ryan and to Rapture's Philosophy. (( WE never hear about all the rest of the people there who very probably agreed with Ryan's Actions in destroying the murderous Anarchists/Terrorists who were disrupting life and threatening everyone's Survival and Freedoms. ))
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Something not apparent is : When Ryan as talking about his 'Trophies' seemingly with glee, that he is actually talking TO/Taunting : First an invading outsider (Jack), and possibly Second, to someone he MAY KNOW is being Atlas's pawn - So he could be aiming his venom at Atlas/Fontaine (for effect) : That it was just a matter of time before Atlas was on Ryan's traitor wall himself. ( As you might learn about in the MMORPG in more detail. )
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Stupid Scenes ( the Novel Author himself 'ginned up' absurd situations ignoring An Objectivist Society's mechanisms ) : 
That NOVEL shop owner suicide-murder scene was so ridiculous. It assumes there were only Passive People in Rapture. An influence vacuum, with only Ryan as a free agent. One businessman was abusing another using dirty tricks and supposedly making use of 'no rule/no law' to destroy a competitor. ( The abused one cant handle it and murders the abuser and then suicides. )
The issue was overpriced garbage collection (run by the bad guy locally) and who blocks pickup of garbage of his competitor. The bad guy dumps his trash in the put-upon guys shop - That's littering and against basic Sanitation regulations ( Under an Objectivist Society, the local people 'have a say' in what's agreed upon under ). 
There is FREE Competition in Rapture which the author conveniently omits - Like perhaps having the abused shop owner hire some Kid the owner could pay to do his garbage collecting and taking it to the 'public chutes' to dump. If the bad buy tries to interfere with that commerce then THAT IS a Crime. 
The underdog owner could move elsewhere (flexibility), or denounce the bad guy to his OTHER neighbors in the Free Press ( price fixing is frowned on, and maybe other people might then hit the abusive bad guy even harder with rent/fees for HIS services when they heard about it ).
A local contract for the garbage business HAS stipulations, and that generally include fixed prices for everyone. 
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BUT this little simplistic Novel vignette was all a one-sided ( following the game's "Ryan BADDD !! Objectivism BAD !!!" ) story setup, and wholly ignoring the Objectivist Philosophy's "Checks and Balances" -- as much as the game writers did the same.
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Ignoring Realistic Economics - Simpleton Class War
The Novel Author just went along with the games simpleton premise to set their stage :
The whole 'poor people' issue was ginned up. In The Surface World, the masses of rural people going to the cities was what caused the Laborer vs Job imbalance ( giving the bosses/management the leverage ) which Ryan wouldn't allow to form in the first place ( He had control of who was let in - remember ... ).
Rapture also was so small there would not be the Surface World's mass industries/business selling products OUTSIDE the city - which caused huge production bubbles, which then Crashed. The same dynamics don't really apply in Rapture. People produce stuff/services which other people consume - it is much less brittle. This 'rich owner' thing doesn't really work when vastly most businesses are small. 
Construction Workers 'out of work' ?? They would be, if it was realistic Undersea Construction, workers actually being highly technical people who can do the later required City Maintenance jobs, AND would be highly adaptable to just about any/all other jobs. Again it is not the same as the Great Depression scenario the writers tried to model their story on.
Ryan's fault ? The writers make believe Ryan is the only decider in all of Rapture, which is rather simplistic thinking. Rapture was all run 'hands off' ?? Then MANY people in Rapture had to make decisions for themselves (and AMONGST THEMSELVES) to have existed for more than a decade without a whole CITY falling apart. That aspect of Rapture Society was all but missing.
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Big Daddy Origins ? John Shirley to the Rescue :
The Novel mentions (page ?) experiments which look to be origins of the Maintenance Cyborgs (pre-Big Daddies). Here some overt vagueness can be used to build the backstory. The scene shows Suchong and Tenenbaum being involved, and Ryan himself mentioning the 'volunteer' ( which might be justified as being closer to the Handyman story, with the test subject involved being some Terminally Ill or Disabled patient ) -- need to check if this was before ADAM was discovered, which might preclude alot of potential such 'volunteers' with its eventual healing abilities ( although possibly being there with the potential for the same kind of thing being applying later ). It is implied ( in the Novel ) that the test subject is for a Project to develop a type of Deep-Diver mutant/cyborg for City Repair ( probably as an alternative to the impracticalities of real diving Hard Suits, which WOULD have had to be used for the much of Rapture ( anything deeper than 150 feet down ).
Unfortunately, John Shirley hasn't pieced every detail out quite logically - he hints that additional 'blue collar' workers might be needed.
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The book (Novel '1950' on page 141) talks of a maintenance personnel shortage ( The Author is building a link to the story's later 'Labor Unrest' problems ). Unfortunately, does HE NOT REALIZE this is also *WHEN* there still ARE all the original construction workers who then might no longer have jobs ( or soon will be available as major construction ceases ). 
THAT'S true even IF (as I posit) only a fraction of those who did the construction came to live in Rapture -- as much of the Construction Work would, to be practical, have to be done on the Ocean Surface ... Prefabrication -- With those personnel actually never being in (or near) Rapture. The cover story for managing THAT (secrecy) feat will be interesting to work out ... with Flashbacks and such in the MMORPG.
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Ryanium - Something the Author of the Rapture Novel thought up :
He couldn't see normal materials (like my reinforced concrete) ONLY being used to build a viable Rapture in deep water -- Which doesn't have to be quite as deep as the game's window views show ( Views which cause other more serious problems ). He talks as if Rapture's buildings are made all of metal ( Something that would bankrupt the Whole World to try to do, considering how Rapture would ACTUALLY 'have to be' constructed for its Depth ).
Such a super strong substance WOULD be useful perhaps for those unrealistically strong indestructible (HUGE) Windows ( only 'destructible' when the Plot calls for it though ). But then he never mentions that use for that substance ( though he does mention how expensive Ryanium is ). The Novel author frequently gets 'explainy', but then frequently 'trips up' on details of his explanations.
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 "Objectivism - It Be Bad, M'kay ..."
In John Shirley's Novel Rapture, there is a scene about two store owners in direct competition. 
One store owner has multiple stores and has influence with the waste disposal services ( let's call him Owner A ). 
Owner A leaves waste/garbage outside is competitor owner Bs shop and controlling the garbage collection makes sure the waste is not collected. As a direct result of the unsavory mess, owner B gets very little custom. 
The story has Andrew Ryan confronted by Owner B about the situation, and Ryan simply turns a blind eye, stating Owner B is taking control of his future. 
Owner B shoots owner A and then himself through sheer frustration. 
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That is a Very Limited Simplistic ( badly contrived ) Anecdote Scene out of Shirley ...
B ? Just pay a kid to dump the Trash which A keeps trying to sabotage B with.
Maybe B should hire a Private Investigator to get proof of As breaking the Sanitary LawsYes, There would be Sanitary Laws in Rapture ( for Dumping trash on a Public Street or on another's private property ). Or just his own camera to record As law breaking and submit it to the AuthoritiesYe there would be "Authorities" to submit law breaking evidence too and others to ENFORCE the Laws.
B should talk to others ( who are perhaps getting the same treatment by this A miscreant ) and organizes his own garbage service ( or that kid would do that ). A couldn't stop that. ( If he did HE (A) would be breaking further laws in Rapture ).
B gets the Free Press interested to investigate the reprehensible behavior of A, who then expose A to public scorn and censure and prompts legal action .
The Mistake is assuming there are NO LAWS and NO ORDINANCES, and that the CITY of Rapture operates in some state of Anarchy. They had Constables and no doubt people overseeing the Sanitary Laws/Ordinances in Rapture. There also would be local Council representative involvement to be advocates ( going straight to Ryan as if HE is the only recourse is so simplistic a mis-understanding of how such a modern urban society HAS to work How such a modern urban society HAS to work ... IT DOESNT HELP THAT MANY PEOPLE (AND ESPECIALLY GAMEPLAYERS) DONT MUCH KNOW MUCH ABOUT HOW THEIR SOCIETY WORKS).
Real World Ordinary shop owners solve far harder problems than that little problem every day.
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==NOTE - THERE IS NO MENTION OF MULTIPLE UNIVERSES IN THE NOVEL, NOR OF "TEARS" APPEARING, NOR OF BOOKER OR ELIZABETH EXISTING IN RAPTURE== 
( The Novel came out long before Infinite BS, and likely before the details in that Game were created )
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