History Literature / RachelPengNovels

* SaltAndPepper: Zockinski and Hill.

* TheyFightCrime: Santino's a botany-obsessed Hispanic computer nerd! Peng's a blind Scottish-Chinese cyborg! They fight crime!

* LesbianCop: Rachel, though it rarely comes up.

* DigitalAvatar: All of the agents have the ability to go "out of body" with a digital projection of themselves, but sometimes also use nonhuman avatars. Rachel's is an owl, based on the wooden owl she appropriated from the coffeeshop in ''Maker Space''.

* ConflictingLoyality: Rachel repeatedly has to choose between protecting OACET and upholding the law, for example when she helps Glazer escape from police custody and when she has Jason wipe the files about OACET from Jenna Noura's phone. Although she tries to hide it from her coworkers, OACET wins every time.

* [[ConflictingLoyality]]: Rachel repeatedly has to choose between protecting OACET and upholding the law, for example when she helps Glazer escape from police custody and when she has Jason wipe the files about OACET from Jenna Noura's phone. Although she tries to hide it from her coworkers, OACET wins every time.

* TheyFightCrime: Santino's a botany-obsessed computer nerd! Peng's a blind cyborg! They fight crime!

* [[http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Divide-Rachel-Peng-Book-ebook/dp/B00C5QP5V6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1428508607&sr=8-3 Digital Divide]]
* [[http://www.amazon.com/Maker-Space-Rachel-Peng-Book-ebook/dp/B00IQILU4S/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1SJQSSR9EFG4E56FR8ZQ Maker Space]]
* State Machine (coming May 2015)

* FantasticRacism: While there's plenty of the mundane variety too, there's a whole lot of prejudice against Agents. People assume they're dangerous, blame them for any and all technological problems, and find them convenient targets to take their anger out on because they usually won't fight back. (It'd be bad for their image.)

* {{Foreshadowing}}: While they presumably won't be discussed in the books proper--Rachel doesn't find out until after the timeskip--there's a brief hint at the existence of [[spoiler:the ghosts]] in ''Maker Space''. When she visits the hospital alone, Rachel turns off all visual frequencies, yet notices she can still "see" little flashes of bright blue. She passes them off as "stray bursts of energy", but especially because it's mentioned in the webcomic that she'd been seeing ghosts for years without realizing what they were, it's very likely she's seeing ghosts.

* TheyFightCrime: He's a botany-obsessed computer nerd! She's a blind cyborg! They fight crime!

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* AstralProjection: Another handy thing Agents can do is "go out of body". Technically, they can project themselves anywhere in the world, but practically they usually do it to hold face to face conversations with one another or to examine something from a distance. They're not visible to people without the implant, although Santino and Jason hack a Google Glass-like device to display them. Technically, an Agent can control their projection and their physical body at the same time, but most find it highly uncomfortable. Rachel in particular does it as infrequently as possible.

The Rachel Peng novels take place in the [[Webcomic/AGirlAndHerFed]] universe, focusing on Agent Rachel Peng. Rachel is assigned as the liason between the Washington, DC police department and OACET--a government agency consisting of three hundred and fifty cyborgs, Rachel included, the leftovers from a secret (and abusive) research project. The implant allows Agents to perceive the electromagnetic spectrum, as well as control of virtually any computer system ''in the world''. Her specialty is perception, using the implant to detect a wide variety of electromagnetic radiation. Sometimes she uses this to solve crimes... but usually she and her long-suffering partner Santino just get handed the annoying jobs no one else wants to do.

* [[Cyborg]]: The Agents.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: While they presumably won't be discussed in the books proper--Rachel doesn't find out until after the timeskip--there's a brief hint at the existence of [[spoiler:the ghosts]] in ''Maker Space''. When she visits the hospital alone, Rachel turns off all visual frequencies, yet notices she can still "see" little flashes of bright blue. She passes them off as "stray bursts of energy", but especially because it's mentioned in the webcomic that she'd been seeing ghosts for years without realizing what they were, it's very likely she's seeing ghosts.

* TheyFightCrime: He's a botany-obsessed computer nerd! She's a blind cyborg! They fight crime!