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* CanadaEh: Averted; most of the cast is Canadian, but it's hardly ever mentioned and if it wasn't specified you'd just assume they were American.
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''Airborn'' is the first book in the trilogy of the same name, written by Canadian Kenneth Oppel. The plot centers around 15-year-old cabin boy Matt Cruse, who works aboard the [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld airship]] ''Aurora'' in a SteamPunk AlternateHistory close to our world in TheEdwardianEra. One night on duty in the crow's nest, Matt spots and rescues a drifting hot-air balloon with one passenger: a mysterious old man mumbling about "beautiful creatures" who dies shortly afterward. One year later, the wealthy Kate de Vries and her chaperone board the ship, Kate determined to prove the old man (her grandfather) right. The ''Aurora'' is soon scuttled on a tropical island by air pirates, and Kate and Matt discover that the creatures do in fact exist. In the two later books, ''Skybreaker'' and ''Starclimber,'' they go on to explore other extreme environments and make important scientific discoveries.
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''Airborn'' is the first book in the trilogy of the same name, written by Canadian Kenneth Oppel.Creator/KennethOppel. The plot centers around 15-year-old cabin boy Matt Cruse, who works aboard the [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld airship]] ''Aurora'' in a SteamPunk AlternateHistory close to our world in TheEdwardianEra. One night on duty in the crow's nest, Matt spots and rescues a drifting hot-air balloon with one passenger: a mysterious old man mumbling about "beautiful creatures" who dies shortly afterward. One year later, the wealthy Kate de Vries and her chaperone board the ship, Kate determined to prove the old man (her grandfather) right. The ''Aurora'' is soon scuttled on a tropical island by air pirates, and Kate and Matt discover that the creatures do in fact exist. In the two later books, ''Skybreaker'' and ''Starclimber,'' they go on to explore other extreme environments and make important scientific discoveries.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Vikram Szpirglas has a young son named Theodore, to whom he tells amazing bedtime stories.
** Subverted with Nadira. While she is [[spoiler:Szpirglas's daughter]], she hardly knew him and isn't too bothered that he's dead -- though she does want Matt to tell her the whole truth.
** Subverted with Nadira. While she is [[spoiler:Szpirglas's daughter]], she hardly knew him and isn't too bothered that he's dead -- though she does want Matt to tell her the whole truth.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Vikram Szpirglas has a young son named Theodore, to whom he tells amazing bedtime stories.
** Subverted with Nadira. While she is [[spoiler:Szpirglas's daughter]], she hardly knew him and isn't too bothered that he's dead --though although she does want Matt to tell her the whole truth.
** Vikram Szpirglas has a young son named Theodore, to whom he tells amazing bedtime stories.
** Subverted with Nadira. While she is [[spoiler:Szpirglas's daughter]], she hardly knew him and isn't too bothered that he's dead --
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:John Rath]] from ''Skybreaker.'' While his employer and many of his crew members die, [[spoiler:Rath himself]] not only gets away clean, but gets his very own Skybreaker airship debt-free. The worst thing that happens to him is an injured hand.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:John Rath]] from ''Skybreaker.'' ''Skybreaker''. While his employer and many of his crew members die, [[spoiler:Rath himself]] not only gets away clean, but gets his very own Skybreaker airship debt-free. The worst thing that happens to him is an injured hand.
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* LifeInZeroG: ''Starclimber'' focuses on life discovered by the characters in low Earth orbit while on the titular SpaceElevator. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:that includes a form of "astral barnacle" that is eating away at the elevator's cable...]]
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* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: It's impossible for an element with the aforementioned properties of Hydrium to exist under real-world laws of chemistry. The reason hydrogen is the lightest gas is because it consists of a single electron and a single proton. There ''are'' substances lighter than hydrogen, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muonium muonium]], but they are highly unstable and have a lifetime measured in microseconds, making them useless as a lifting gas for airships.
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%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* TheAce: Bruce Lunardi and Hal Slater; both turn out to be not quite as successful as they appear.
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%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* BigFancyHouse: Kate's "small flat".
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:''Skybreaker'' ends with the blueprints to Grunel's revolutionary engine being lost for good; despite the death of George Barton, the Aruba Consortium [[TheBadGuyWins will suppress renewable energy for the foreseeable future.]] However, the four leads do at least get what they wanted out of the voyage, with Kate discovering more rare specimens and Matt, Hal, and Nadira finding enough gold to set themselves up well.]]
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* TheCaptain: Captain Walken can handle any problem, can calm angry passengers, and could easily stand up to pirates with only one gun. And compliment your hair at the same time.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* CoolAirship: The ''Aurora'' and the ''Skybreaker''.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* CoolAirship: The ''Aurora'' and the ''Skybreaker''.
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* TheCaptain: Captain Walken can handle any problem, can calm angry passengers, and could easily stand up to pirates with only one gun. And compliment your hair at the same time.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* * CoolAirship: The ''Aurora'' is a skyborne answer to a luxury ocean liner, complete with staterooms, fine dining, and even a movie theater.
** The ''Sagarmatha'' is a "Skybreaker" designed to function at ludicrously high altitudes.
** The ''Hyperion'' outdoes them all, having been built by a mad genius to stay aloft indefinitely, and tricked out with secret tunnels, a steampunk laboratory, its own farm and orchard, and even a zoo.
* CuttingTheKnot: In the''Skybreaker''.third book, Tobias advises Matt to propose marriage to Kate. His reasoning: if she says yes despite all the forces arrayed against them, it will be clear she loves Matt. If she cites any of the reasons such an engagement would be difficult, she doesn't love him enough to be worth pursuing. Either way, the other passengers on the space elevator won't have to deal with their romantic drama anymore.
** The ''Sagarmatha'' is a "Skybreaker" designed to function at ludicrously high altitudes.
** The ''Hyperion'' outdoes them all, having been built by a mad genius to stay aloft indefinitely, and tricked out with secret tunnels, a steampunk laboratory, its own farm and orchard, and even a zoo.
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* DumbwaiterRide: In ''Literature/{{Airborn}}'', protagonist Matt Cruse uses a dumbwaiter to move through the airship ''Aurora'' after it is hijacked by pirates.
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* DumbwaiterRide: In ''Literature/{{Airborn}}'', protagonist Matt Cruse uses a dumbwaiter to move through the airship ''Aurora'' after it is hijacked by pirates.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Vikram Spirzglas has a young son named Theodore, whom he tells amazing bed time stories.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Vikram Spirzglas Szpirglas has a young son named Theodore, to whom he tells amazing bed time stories.bedtime stories.
** Subverted with Nadira. While she is [[spoiler:Szpirglas's daughter]], she hardly knew him and isn't too bothered that he's dead -- though she does want Matt to tell her the whole truth.
** Subverted with Nadira. While she is [[spoiler:Szpirglas's daughter]], she hardly knew him and isn't too bothered that he's dead -- though she does want Matt to tell her the whole truth.
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%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* KickTheDog: Szpirglas kills [[spoiler: Mr. Featherstone and Bruce]].
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* KickTheDog: Just when you thought Vikram Szpirglas
* LoveDodecahedron: In ''Skybreaker,'' Matt is attracted to Nadira while jealously believing Hal to be romancing Kate.
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* PhlebotinumInducedSteampunk: Takes place in an AlternateHistory where the existence of Hydrium allows airships to be a common type of travel.
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* PhlebotinumInducedSteampunk: Takes place in an AlternateHistory where the existence of Hydrium hydrium allows airships to be a common type of travel.
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* TheSkyIsAnOcean: And how. If Matt stopped reminding us every ten seconds how much he loves the air you'd forget they're not on the sea altogether.
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* TheSkyIsAnOcean: And how. If Matt stopped reminding us every ten seconds how much he loves the air you'd you might forget they're not on the sea altogether.sea.
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* DumbwaiterRide: In ''Literature/{{Airborn}}'', protagonist Matt Cruse uses a dumbwaiter to move through the airship ''Aurora'' after it is hijacked by pirates.
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* HotScientist: Kate de Vries is a very passionate and accomplished scientist noted at numerous points in the series to be a very attractive young lady.
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* AlternateHistory: The fictional world's timeline seems to have diverged with ours in the late 1800s, so far as human history goes. The history of its natural world seems to have diverged far earlier.
** In ''Starclimber'', Sir John [=McKinnon=] remarks that "the last century belonged to France," the implications of which remain vague.
** In ''Starclimber'', Sir John [=McKinnon=] remarks that "the last century belonged to France," the implications of which remain vague.
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* AlternateHistory: The fictional world's timeline seems to have diverged with ours in the late 1800s, so far as human history goes. The history of its natural world seems to have diverged far earlier.
**earlier. In ''Starclimber'', Sir John [=McKinnon=] remarks that "the last century belonged to France," the implications of which remain vague.
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* {{Unobtanium}}: Hydrium, a substance lighter than hydrogen but is non-flammable.
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* {{Unobtanium}}: Hydrium, a substance lighter than hydrogen but which is non-flammable.
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%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* TheAce: Bruce Lunardi and Hal Slater; both turn out to be not quite as sucessful as they appear.
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* CoolAirship: The ''Aurora'' and the ''Skybreaker''.
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* TheEdwardianEra: Probably, although the exact time is quite vague and indetermined.
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* TheEdwardianEra: Probably, although the exact time is quite vague and indetermined.undetermined.
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* KickTheDog: Szpirglas kills [[spoiler: Mr. Featherstone and Bruce]].
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* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: In the first book, Matt watches a ''[[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]]'' movie directed by the Lumiere Triplets. Supposedly a third brother helps Auguste and Louis take their inventions to sensational conclusions, as Georges Melies did in our world.
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* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: In the first book, Matt watches a silent ''[[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]]'' movie directed by the Lumiere Triplets. Supposedly a third brother helps Auguste and Louis take their inventions to sensational conclusions, as Georges Melies Creator/GeorgesMelies did in our world.
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* SpaceIsAnOcean: In ''Starclimber'', Kate compares the species they discover to those that dwell on the shores of Earth's oceans, wondering what sort of creatures live even further out.
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* AngryChef: The recurring character Chef Vlad is notable for his short fuse: he's a genius chef, but is easily set off on angry rants when things don't go his way. His outbursts are fairly justified on occasion — in ''Skybreaker'', he's reintroduced while bodily throwing a waiter out of his kitchen after he caught the latter dipping his fingers in the food — but he's sometimes set off by more... questionable... matters — in ''Straclimber'', he says he had to quit his job in a Parisian restaurant after he set the French president's tie on fire due to a disagreement regarding proper ways to make a glaze.
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* AngryChef: The recurring character Chef Vlad is notable for his short fuse: he's a genius chef, but is easily set off on angry rants when things don't go his way. His outbursts are fairly justified on occasion — in ''Skybreaker'', he's reintroduced while bodily throwing a waiter out of his kitchen after he caught the latter dipping his fingers in the food — but he's sometimes set off by more... questionable... matters — in ''Straclimber'', ''Starclimber'', he says he had to quit his job in a Parisian restaurant after he set the French president's tie on fire due to a disagreement regarding proper ways to make a glaze.
