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* NoBiochemicalBarriers: The Rhomary Land books are a partial aversion. It's mentioned that the original arrivals on the planet struggled to find food that was nutritious to humans, and their descendants show the marks of lacking a nourishing diet (being smaller and so on), but they did manage to find some things they could eat, because otherwise there would be no story.
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Cherry Wilder (1930–2002) was a New Zealand-born author of science fiction and fantasy. Her novels include the Torin trilogy (science fiction), the Rulers of Hylor trilogy (fantasy), the Rhomary Land duology (science fiction), and the singleton novel ''Cruel Designs'' (horror). She also wrote numerous short stories, some of which share settings with and feature supporting characters from her novels.
The Torin trilogy:
* ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' (1977)
* ''The Nearest Fire'' (1982)
* ''The Tapestry Warriors'' (1986)
The Torin trilogy:
* ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' (1977)
* ''The Nearest Fire'' (1982)
* ''The Tapestry Warriors'' (1986)
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Cherry Wilder (1930–2002) was a New Zealand-born author of science fiction and fantasy. Her novels include the Torin Literature/{{Torin}} trilogy (science fiction), the Rulers of Hylor trilogy (fantasy), the Rhomary Land duology (science fiction), and the singleton novel ''Cruel Designs'' (horror). She also wrote numerous short stories, some of which share settings with and feature supporting characters from her novels.
The Torin trilogy:
* ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' (1977)
* ''The Nearest Fire'' (1982)
* ''The Tapestry Warriors'' (1986)
novels.
The Torin trilogy:
* ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' (1977)
* ''The Nearest Fire'' (1982)
* ''The Tapestry Warriors'' (1986)
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!!Works by Cherry Wilder provide examples of:
* ABoyAndHisX: ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' is a "Boy and his Alien" story -- but set on the alien planet of Torin, with an Earthman playing the role of the alien who needs to be hidden and helped back to his mothership.
* BizarreAlienReproduction: A low-key example in the Torin trilogy; most of the visible mammalian species on Torin are marsupials, including the local sapient humanoids, who carry their infants in pouches for the first few months after birth, and are initially horrified when a visitor from Earth attempts to describe how his people carry their babies entirely enclosed within the mother with no apertures for air to get in.
* ABoyAndHisX: ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' is a "Boy and his Alien" story -- but set on the alien planet of Torin, with an Earthman playing the role of the alien who needs to be hidden and helped back to his mothership.
* BizarreAlienReproduction: A low-key example in the Torin trilogy; most of the visible mammalian species on Torin are marsupials, including the local sapient humanoids, who carry their infants in pouches for the first few months after birth, and are initially horrified when a visitor from Earth attempts to describe how his people carry their babies entirely enclosed within the mother with no apertures for air to get in.
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!!Works by Cherry Wilder with their own pages include:
* Literature/{{Torin}} trilogy
!!Other works by Cherry Wilder provide examplesof:
* ABoyAndHisX: ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' is a "Boy and his Alien" story -- but set on the alien planet of Torin, with an Earthman playing the role of the alien who needs to be hidden and helped back to his mothership.
* BizarreAlienReproduction: A low-key example in the Torin trilogy; most of the visible mammalian species on Torin are marsupials, including the local sapient humanoids, who carry their infants in pouches for the first few months after birth, and are initially horrified when a visitor from Earth attempts to describe how his people carry their babies entirely enclosed within the mother with no apertures for air to get in.of:
* Literature/{{Torin}} trilogy
!!Other works by Cherry Wilder provide examples
* ABoyAndHisX: ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' is a "Boy and his Alien" story -- but set on the alien planet of Torin, with an Earthman playing the role of the alien who needs to be hidden and helped back to his mothership.
* BizarreAlienReproduction: A low-key example in the Torin trilogy; most of the visible mammalian species on Torin are marsupials, including the local sapient humanoids, who carry their infants in pouches for the first few months after birth, and are initially horrified when a visitor from Earth attempts to describe how his people carry their babies entirely enclosed within the mother with no apertures for air to get in.
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* CourtroomAntic: The climax of ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' is a court case to prevent the government confiscating the visiting alien and tucking him away somewhere to study him, and it's won with an appropriately dramatic antic.
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* ExoticExtendedMarriage: In the Torin trilogy, the traditional Torinese family structure is built around a group of five adults, which includes at least one woman and two men in the roles we'd think of as wife and husbands. (Other roles are possible; the five adults can include grandparents as well as parents, for instance.) Biologically, each child has one mother and one father, the same as humans, but all husbands share equally in the raising of each of the family's children, and it's considered impolite to suggest that any of a child's fathers are more or less "really" its father than any other.
* {{Fictionary}}: The Torin trilogy includes occasional words and phrases (and, at one point, an entire verse of a song translated from English) in the Torinese language, which is developed in sufficient depth for it to have its own puns.
* FirstContact:
** The Torin trilogy concerns the first contact between the inhabitants of the planet Torin and visitors from the alien planet Earth.
** ''Second Nature'' has a subplot about establishing contact between human colonists and a native {{starfish alien|s}}.
* {{Fictionary}}: The Torin trilogy includes occasional words and phrases (and, at one point, an entire verse of a song translated from English) in the Torinese language, which is developed in sufficient depth for it to have its own puns.
* FirstContact:
** The Torin trilogy concerns the first contact between the inhabitants of the planet Torin and visitors from the alien planet Earth.
** ''Second Nature'' has a subplot about establishing contact between human colonists and a native {{starfish alien|s}}.
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* ExoticExtendedMarriage: In the Torin trilogy, the traditional Torinese family structure is built around a group of five adults, which includes at least one woman and two men in the roles we'd think of as wife and husbands. (Other roles are possible; the five adults can include grandparents as well as parents, for instance.) Biologically, each child has one mother and one father, the same as humans, but all husbands share equally in the raising of each of the family's children, and it's considered impolite to suggest that any of a child's fathers are more or less "really" its father than any other.
* {{Fictionary}}: The Torin trilogy includes occasional words and phrases (and, at one point, an entire verse of a song translated from English) in the Torinese language, which is developed in sufficient depth for it to have its own puns.
* FirstContact:
** The Torin trilogy concerns the first contact between the inhabitants of the planet Torin and visitors from the alien planet Earth.
**FirstContact: ''Second Nature'' has a subplot about establishing contact between human colonists and a native {{starfish alien|s}}.
* {{Fictionary}}: The Torin trilogy includes occasional words and phrases (and, at one point, an entire verse of a song translated from English) in the Torinese language, which is developed in sufficient depth for it to have its own puns.
* FirstContact:
** The Torin trilogy concerns the first contact between the inhabitants of the planet Torin and visitors from the alien planet Earth.
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* GenderNeutralWriting: One supporting character in ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' is described without gender-specific pronouns. It's done subtly enough that the reader is unlikely to notice unless they come across the short story elaborating that character's backstory, which establishes the character as being of the opposite gender from what most people assume.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: The Torin trilogy.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' is explicitly stated to be an account written by Brin's son Dorn for posterity, and each of the sequels' narrators mentions having been encouraged by Dorn to do likewise.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: The Torin trilogy.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' is explicitly stated to be an account written by Brin's son Dorn for posterity, and each of the sequels' narrators mentions having been encouraged by Dorn to do likewise.
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* PsychicPowers: Some people on Torin have them. So do some people in Rhomary Land.
* PsychicStatic: Narneen sings in her head to block psychic questioning in ''The Luck of Brin's Five''.
* SimultaneousArcs:
** The second half of the first Torin novel and the first half of the second overlap in time, but are separate in location and involve different characters (although the event that begins the second novel is mentioned in passing during the first, and the protagonists of the first novel do show up again in the second after it catches up to them).
** The Rhomary Land novels are set in the aftermath of a disaster that forces a space passenger liner to be evacuated, with the lifeboats setting down in scattered locations on a nearby planet. Each novel covers roughly the same period of time, but focuses on a different location and group of survivors.
* PsychicStatic: Narneen sings in her head to block psychic questioning in ''The Luck of Brin's Five''.
* SimultaneousArcs:
** The second half of the first Torin novel and the first half of the second overlap in time, but are separate in location and involve different characters (although the event that begins the second novel is mentioned in passing during the first, and the protagonists of the first novel do show up again in the second after it catches up to them).
** The Rhomary Land novels are set in the aftermath of a disaster that forces a space passenger liner to be evacuated, with the lifeboats setting down in scattered locations on a nearby planet. Each novel covers roughly the same period of time, but focuses on a different location and group of survivors.
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* PsychicPowers: Some people on Torin have them. So do some people in Rhomary Land.
Land have them.
*PsychicStatic: Narneen sings in her head to block psychic questioning in ''The Luck of Brin's Five''.
* SimultaneousArcs:
** The second half of the first Torin novel and the first half of the second overlap in time, but are separate in location and involve different characters (although the event that begins the second novel is mentioned in passing during the first, and the protagonists of the first novel do show up again in the second after it catches up to them).
**SimultaneousArcs: The Rhomary Land novels are set in the aftermath of a disaster that forces a space passenger liner to be evacuated, with the lifeboats setting down in scattered locations on a nearby planet. Each novel covers roughly the same period of time, but focuses on a different location and group of survivors.
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* SimultaneousArcs:
** The second half of the first Torin novel and the first half of the second overlap in time, but are separate in location and involve different characters (although the event that begins the second novel is mentioned in passing during the first, and the protagonists of the first novel do show up again in the second after it catches up to them).
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* OneLastCase: The short story "Back of Beyond".
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* OneLastCase: OneLastJob: The short story "Back of Beyond".
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* FirstContact: The Torin trilogy concerns the first contact between the inhabitants of the planet Torin and visitors from the alien planet Earth.
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* FirstContact: FirstContact:
** The Torin trilogy concerns the first contact between the inhabitants of the planet Torin and visitors from the alien planetEarth.Earth.
** ''Second Nature'' has a subplot about establishing contact between human colonists and a native {{starfish alien|s}}.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The Vail in ''Second Nature''.
** The Torin trilogy concerns the first contact between the inhabitants of the planet Torin and visitors from the alien planet
** ''Second Nature'' has a subplot about establishing contact between human colonists and a native {{starfish alien|s}}.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The Vail in ''Second Nature''.
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* LastOfHisKind: Shamut in ''Second Nature''.
* OneLastCase: The short story "Back of Beyond".
* OneLastCase: The short story "Back of Beyond".
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* PsychicPowers: Some people on Torin have them. So do some people in Rhomary Land.
* PsychicStatic: Narneen sings in her head to block psychic questioning in ''The Luck of Brin's Five''.
* SimultaneousArcs:
** The second half of the first Torin novel and the first half of the second overlap in time, but are separate in location and involve different characters (although the event that begins the second novel is mentioned in passing during the first, and the protagonists of the first novel do show up again in the second after it catches up to them).
** The Rhomary Land novels are set in the aftermath of a disaster that forces a space passenger liner to be evacuated, with the lifeboats setting down in scattered locations on a nearby planet. Each novel covers roughly the same period of time, but focuses on a different location and group of survivors.
* StarfishAliens: The Vail in ''Second Nature''.
* PsychicStatic: Narneen sings in her head to block psychic questioning in ''The Luck of Brin's Five''.
* SimultaneousArcs:
** The second half of the first Torin novel and the first half of the second overlap in time, but are separate in location and involve different characters (although the event that begins the second novel is mentioned in passing during the first, and the protagonists of the first novel do show up again in the second after it catches up to them).
** The Rhomary Land novels are set in the aftermath of a disaster that forces a space passenger liner to be evacuated, with the lifeboats setting down in scattered locations on a nearby planet. Each novel covers roughly the same period of time, but focuses on a different location and group of survivors.
* StarfishAliens: The Vail in ''Second Nature''.
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Cherry Wilder (1930–2002) was a New Zealand-born author of science fiction and fantasy. Her novels include the Torin trilogy (science fiction), the Rulers of Hylor trilogy (fantasy), the Rhomary Land duology (science fiction), and the singleton novel ''Cruel Designs'' (horror). She also wrote numerous short stories, some of which share settings with and feature supporting characters from her novels.
The Torin trilogy:
* ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' (1977)
* ''The Nearest Fire'' (1982)
* ''The Tapestry Warriors'' (1986)
The Rulers of Hylor trilogy:
* ''A Princess of the Chameln'' (1984)
* ''Yorath the Wolf'' (1984)
* ''The Summer's King'' (1986)
Rhomary Land books:
* ''Second Nature'' (1986)
* ''Signs of Life'' (1996)
!!Works by Cherry Wilder provide examples of:
* ABoyAndHisX: ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' is a "Boy and his Alien" story -- but set on the alien planet of Torin, with an Earthman playing the role of the alien who needs to be hidden and helped back to his mothership.
* BizarreAlienReproduction: A low-key example in the Torin trilogy; most of the visible mammalian species on Torin are marsupials, including the local sapient humanoids, who carry their infants in pouches for the first few months after birth, and are initially horrified when a visitor from Earth attempts to describe how his people carry their babies entirely enclosed within the mother with no apertures for air to get in.
* CanonWelding: "The Dancing Floor", one of the last of Wilder's stories to be published, combines background elements from the Torin and Rhomary Land books, establishing them as part of the same future history.
* CourtroomAntic: The climax of ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' is a court case to prevent the government confiscating the visiting alien and tucking him away somewhere to study him, and it's won with an appropriately dramatic antic.
* CutShort: The Rhomary Land books may have been intended to be a trilogy (''Signs of Life'' ends with a reminder that there's just about enough plot left over for one more novel), but if so the author died before completing it.
* CharacterNameAlias: A reclusive character in "The Dancing Floor" goes by the name "Ben Gunn", after the hermit in ''Literature/TreasureIsland''. The protagonist spends most of the story trying to figure out why the name seems familiar, at one point looking at metallurgy texts because she's remembered that it's connected to "flint" and "silver".
* ExoticExtendedMarriage: In the Torin trilogy, the traditional Torinese family structure is built around a group of five adults, which includes at least one woman and two men in the roles we'd think of as wife and husbands. (Other roles are possible; the five adults can include grandparents as well as parents, for instance.) Biologically, each child has one mother and one father, the same as humans, but all husbands share equally in the raising of each of the family's children, and it's considered impolite to suggest that any of a child's fathers are more or less "really" its father than any other.
* {{Fictionary}}: The Torin trilogy includes occasional words and phrases (and, at one point, an entire verse of a song translated from English) in the Torinese language, which is developed in sufficient depth for it to have its own puns.
* FirstContact: The Torin trilogy concerns the first contact between the inhabitants of the planet Torin and visitors from the alien planet Earth.
* GenderNeutralWriting: One supporting character in ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' is described without gender-specific pronouns. It's done subtly enough that the reader is unlikely to notice unless they come across the short story elaborating that character's backstory, which establishes the character as being of the opposite gender from what most people assume.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' is explicitly stated to be an account written by Brin's son Dorn for posterity, and each of the sequels' narrators mentions having been encouraged by Dorn to do likewise.
* PosthumousCollaboration: ''The Wanderer'', intended to be the first volume of a sequel trilogy to ''The Rulers of Hylor'', was completed by Katya Reimann and published a few years after Wilder's death.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: A theme in the Rhomary Land books and related short stories, particularly in ''Signs of Life'', with regard to the android "auxiliary personnel".
The Torin trilogy:
* ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' (1977)
* ''The Nearest Fire'' (1982)
* ''The Tapestry Warriors'' (1986)
The Rulers of Hylor trilogy:
* ''A Princess of the Chameln'' (1984)
* ''Yorath the Wolf'' (1984)
* ''The Summer's King'' (1986)
Rhomary Land books:
* ''Second Nature'' (1986)
* ''Signs of Life'' (1996)
!!Works by Cherry Wilder provide examples of:
* ABoyAndHisX: ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' is a "Boy and his Alien" story -- but set on the alien planet of Torin, with an Earthman playing the role of the alien who needs to be hidden and helped back to his mothership.
* BizarreAlienReproduction: A low-key example in the Torin trilogy; most of the visible mammalian species on Torin are marsupials, including the local sapient humanoids, who carry their infants in pouches for the first few months after birth, and are initially horrified when a visitor from Earth attempts to describe how his people carry their babies entirely enclosed within the mother with no apertures for air to get in.
* CanonWelding: "The Dancing Floor", one of the last of Wilder's stories to be published, combines background elements from the Torin and Rhomary Land books, establishing them as part of the same future history.
* CourtroomAntic: The climax of ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' is a court case to prevent the government confiscating the visiting alien and tucking him away somewhere to study him, and it's won with an appropriately dramatic antic.
* CutShort: The Rhomary Land books may have been intended to be a trilogy (''Signs of Life'' ends with a reminder that there's just about enough plot left over for one more novel), but if so the author died before completing it.
* CharacterNameAlias: A reclusive character in "The Dancing Floor" goes by the name "Ben Gunn", after the hermit in ''Literature/TreasureIsland''. The protagonist spends most of the story trying to figure out why the name seems familiar, at one point looking at metallurgy texts because she's remembered that it's connected to "flint" and "silver".
* ExoticExtendedMarriage: In the Torin trilogy, the traditional Torinese family structure is built around a group of five adults, which includes at least one woman and two men in the roles we'd think of as wife and husbands. (Other roles are possible; the five adults can include grandparents as well as parents, for instance.) Biologically, each child has one mother and one father, the same as humans, but all husbands share equally in the raising of each of the family's children, and it's considered impolite to suggest that any of a child's fathers are more or less "really" its father than any other.
* {{Fictionary}}: The Torin trilogy includes occasional words and phrases (and, at one point, an entire verse of a song translated from English) in the Torinese language, which is developed in sufficient depth for it to have its own puns.
* FirstContact: The Torin trilogy concerns the first contact between the inhabitants of the planet Torin and visitors from the alien planet Earth.
* GenderNeutralWriting: One supporting character in ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' is described without gender-specific pronouns. It's done subtly enough that the reader is unlikely to notice unless they come across the short story elaborating that character's backstory, which establishes the character as being of the opposite gender from what most people assume.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: ''The Luck of Brin's Five'' is explicitly stated to be an account written by Brin's son Dorn for posterity, and each of the sequels' narrators mentions having been encouraged by Dorn to do likewise.
* PosthumousCollaboration: ''The Wanderer'', intended to be the first volume of a sequel trilogy to ''The Rulers of Hylor'', was completed by Katya Reimann and published a few years after Wilder's death.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: A theme in the Rhomary Land books and related short stories, particularly in ''Signs of Life'', with regard to the android "auxiliary personnel".
