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** While questioning Luciana about her role at ROSA, [[{{Film/Transformers}} Cora orders a large amount of food and scoffs it down very quickly, with particular emphasis on her having finished "the whole plate".]] It doubles as a reference to [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJGOq3JclTH8J73o2Z4VMaSYZDNG3xeZ7 Ellis' video essay series on film theory through the lens of Michael Bay's Transformers films]], which is named after that same quote.
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** While questioning Luciana about her role at ROSA, [[{{Film/Transformers}} [[Film/Transformers2007 Cora orders a large amount of food and scoffs it down very quickly, with particular emphasis on her having finished "the whole plate".]] It doubles as a reference to [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJGOq3JclTH8J73o2Z4VMaSYZDNG3xeZ7 Ellis' video essay series on film theory through the lens of Michael Bay's Transformers films]], which is named after that same quote.
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* SpeculativeFictionLGBT: The Amygdaline relationship model shown is closest to a polycule, though it's explicitly noticed that there's a level of intimacy involved that doesn't translate to human understanding.
** Ampersand and all his symphiles are described using male pronouns[[note]](Cora notes that the translator's voice in her ear sounds male, and it goes from there)[[/note]]. That said, there's no indication that Amygdalines have genders.
* SoulCrushingDeskJob: Cora starts the book with a stultifying office job; after she has to drop out of college, she ends up working for a terrible temp firm with equally terrible micromanaging clients.
** Ampersand and all his symphiles are described using male pronouns[[note]](Cora notes that the translator's voice in her ear sounds male, and it goes from there)[[/note]]. That said, there's no indication that Amygdalines have genders.
* SoulCrushingDeskJob: Cora starts the book with a stultifying office job; after she has to drop out of college, she ends up working for a terrible temp firm with equally terrible micromanaging clients.
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* SpeculativeFictionLGBT: SoulCrushingDeskJob: Cora starts the book with a stultifying office job; after she has to drop out of college, she ends up working for a terrible temp firm with equally terrible micromanaging clients.
* SpeculativeFictionLGBT:
** The Amygdaline relationship model shown is closest to a polycule, though it's explicitly noticed that there's a level of intimacy involved that doesn't translate to human understanding.
** Ampersand and all his symphiles are described using male pronouns[[note]](Cora notes that the translator's voice in her ear sounds male, and it goes from there)[[/note]]. That said, there's no indication that Amygdalines havegenders.
* SoulCrushingDeskJob: Cora starts the book with a stultifying office job; after she has to drop out of college, she ends up working for a terrible temp firm with equally terrible micromanaging clients.genders.
* SpeculativeFictionLGBT:
** The Amygdaline relationship model shown is closest to a polycule, though it's explicitly noticed that there's a level of intimacy involved that doesn't translate to human understanding.
** Ampersand and all his symphiles are described using male pronouns[[note]](Cora notes that the translator's voice in her ear sounds male, and it goes from there)[[/note]]. That said, there's no indication that Amygdalines have
* SoulCrushingDeskJob: Cora starts the book with a stultifying office job; after she has to drop out of college, she ends up working for a terrible temp firm with equally terrible micromanaging clients.
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* BilingualBonus: The Esperanto code names that ROSA assigns, making them {{Meaningful Name}}s. Of note, "Fremda" is an adjective meaning "foreign," "Ĉefo" is a noun meaning "chief," and "Esperas" is the present tense verb form of "to wait."
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* BilingualBonus: The Esperanto code names that ROSA assigns, making them {{Meaningful Name}}s. Of note, "Fremda" is an adjective meaning "foreign," "foreign", "Ĉefo" is a noun meaning "chief," "chief" and "Esperas" is the present tense verb form of "to wait."wait".
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* DeadlyEuphemism: [[spoiler:Vincent Park "no longer works for the agency." Meaning that he has been disintegrated by a space alien.]]
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* DeadlyEuphemism: [[spoiler:Vincent Park "no longer works for the agency." agency". Meaning that he has been disintegrated by a space alien.]]
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Secretary of Defense [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates Robert Gates]], whom UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush named as Donald Rumsfeld's successor, appears for a chapter, but is not directly named until a later epistolary segment concerning "[[InSeriesNickname ET-Gate]]."
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Secretary of Defense [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates Robert Gates]], whom UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush named as Donald Rumsfeld's successor, appears for a chapter, but is not directly named until a later epistolary segment concerning "[[InSeriesNickname ET-Gate]]."ET-Gate]]".
* HordeOfAlienLocusts: The transients are a nomadic group that travel to different planets and strip them of their resources, and are even mentioned as having grasshopper-like mouthparts. It's noted that their methods aren't too different from what humanity is doing to the Earth. That said, they're not ravening monsters -- Ampersand spent decades as a prisoner of war in their care, and notes that they treated him reasonably well during that time.
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* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Ampersand is at first frightened of humans, despite being more powerful than them by several orders of magnitude. He is particularly disturbed to be surrounded by (to quote the title of Part Two) "billions of flesh-eating aliens," and Cora speculates that his initial apprehension around her is out of fear that she will try to take a bite of him.
* HordeOfAlienLocusts: The transients are a nomadic group that travel to different planets and strip them of their resources, and are even mentioned as having grasshopper-like mouthparts. It's noted that their methods aren't too different from what humanity is doing to the Earth. That said, they're not ravening monsters -- Ampersand spent decades as a prisoner of war in their care, and notes that they treated him reasonably well during that time.
* HordeOfAlienLocusts: The transients are a nomadic group that travel to different planets and strip them of their resources, and are even mentioned as having grasshopper-like mouthparts. It's noted that their methods aren't too different from what humanity is doing to the Earth. That said, they're not ravening monsters -- Ampersand spent decades as a prisoner of war in their care, and notes that they treated him reasonably well during that time.
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* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Ampersand is at first frightened of humans, despite being more powerful than them by several orders of magnitude. He is particularly disturbed to be surrounded by (to quote the title of Part Two) "billions of flesh-eating aliens," aliens", and Cora speculates that his initial apprehension around her is out of fear that she will try to take a bite of him.
* HordeOfAlienLocusts: The transients are a nomadic group that travel to different planets and strip them of their resources, and are even mentioned as having grasshopper-like mouthparts. It's noted that their methods aren't too different from what humanity is doing to the Earth. That said, they're not ravening monsters -- Ampersand spent decades as a prisoner of war in their care, and notes that they treated him reasonably well during that time.him.
* HordeOfAlienLocusts: The transients are a nomadic group that travel to different planets and strip them of their resources, and are even mentioned as having grasshopper-like mouthparts. It's noted that their methods aren't too different from what humanity is doing to the Earth. That said, they're not ravening monsters -- Ampersand spent decades as a prisoner of war in their care, and notes that they treated him reasonably well during that time.
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** "Obelus," the antagonistic alien, is named after an historical typography mark that has evolved into the division sign (hinting that [[spoiler:Obelus is actually divided from Ampersand]]), a dagger (an alternative footnote mark when an asterisk has already been used), and a commercial minus sign (which is a rarely used mathematical symbol used to denote a negative remainder of a division). It also has the same root as "obelisk," making it a shout-out to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''. It is also the basis of the name of the large and strong friend of {{ComicBook/Asterix}}, Obelix. Asterix, of course being derived from the word Asterix in keeping with the thematic naming.
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** "Obelus," "Obelus", the antagonistic alien, is named after an historical typography mark that has evolved into the division sign (hinting that [[spoiler:Obelus is actually divided from Ampersand]]), a dagger (an alternative footnote mark when an asterisk has already been used), and a commercial minus sign (which is a rarely used mathematical symbol used to denote a negative remainder of a division). It also has the same root as "obelisk," "obelisk", making it a shout-out to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''. It is also the basis of the name of the large and strong friend of {{ComicBook/Asterix}}, Obelix. Asterix, of course being derived from the word Asterix in keeping with the thematic naming.
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** [[spoiler:And there is also a ''third'' amygdaline subspecies, one that is only mentioned in passing and is referred to as "non-biological."]]
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** [[spoiler:And there is also a ''third'' amygdaline subspecies, one that is only mentioned in passing and is referred to as "non-biological."]]"non-biological".]]
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** Who does Luciana decide to contact about Ampersand? "[[Series/BetterCallSaul Better call Sol]]."
** Sol, interrogating Cora on her EntertaininglyWrong understanding of the universe, marvels, "[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Oh, you sweet summer child]]."
** While questioning Luciana about her role at ROSA, [[{{Film/Transformers}} Cora orders a large amount of food and scoffs it down very quickly, with particular emphasis on her having finished "the whole plate."]] It doubles as a reference to [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJGOq3JclTH8J73o2Z4VMaSYZDNG3xeZ7 Ellis' video essay series on film theory through the lens of Michael Bay's Transformers films]], which is named after that same quote.
** Sol, interrogating Cora on her EntertaininglyWrong understanding of the universe, marvels, "[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Oh, you sweet summer child]]."
** While questioning Luciana about her role at ROSA, [[{{Film/Transformers}} Cora orders a large amount of food and scoffs it down very quickly, with particular emphasis on her having finished "the whole plate."]] It doubles as a reference to [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJGOq3JclTH8J73o2Z4VMaSYZDNG3xeZ7 Ellis' video essay series on film theory through the lens of Michael Bay's Transformers films]], which is named after that same quote.
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** Who does Luciana decide to contact about Ampersand? "[[Series/BetterCallSaul Better call Sol]]."
Sol]]".
** Sol, interrogating Cora on her EntertaininglyWrong understanding of the universe, marvels, "[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Oh, you sweet summerchild]]."
child]]".
** While questioning Luciana about her role at ROSA, [[{{Film/Transformers}} Cora orders a large amount of food and scoffs it down very quickly, with particular emphasis on her having finished "the wholeplate."]] plate".]] It doubles as a reference to [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJGOq3JclTH8J73o2Z4VMaSYZDNG3xeZ7 Ellis' video essay series on film theory through the lens of Michael Bay's Transformers films]], which is named after that same quote.
** Sol, interrogating Cora on her EntertaininglyWrong understanding of the universe, marvels, "[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Oh, you sweet summer
** While questioning Luciana about her role at ROSA, [[{{Film/Transformers}} Cora orders a large amount of food and scoffs it down very quickly, with particular emphasis on her having finished "the whole
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--->''"Everyone, this is Cora, my niece. She's had a... rough morning." She gestured to her ex-coworkers in turn. "Cora, these are some of my former coworkers: [[WebVideo/HBomberguy Harris]], Shaun, [[WebVideo/ContraPoints Natalie]], Stevie, [[Webvideo/FoldingIdeas Dan-O]], David, [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaN8DZdc8EHo5y1LsQWMiig Joel]], [[WebVideo/SarahZ Sarah]], Maria, and [[Film/{{Searching}} Dr. Sev]]."''
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--->''"Everyone, this is Cora, my niece. She's had a... rough morning." morning". She gestured to her ex-coworkers in turn. "Cora, these are some of my former coworkers: [[WebVideo/HBomberguy Harris]], Shaun, [[WebVideo/ContraPoints Natalie]], Stevie, [[Webvideo/FoldingIdeas Dan-O]], David, [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaN8DZdc8EHo5y1LsQWMiig Joel]], [[WebVideo/SarahZ Sarah]], Maria, and [[Film/{{Searching}} Dr. Sev]]."''
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* WhamLine: Ampersand, when Obelus finally catches up to him: "[[spoiler:Greetings, [[DatingCatwoman Beloved]]]]."
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* WhamLine: Ampersand, when Obelus finally catches up to him: "[[spoiler:Greetings, [[DatingCatwoman Beloved]]]]."Beloved]]]]".
