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* GambitPileup: By the third book, there are at least five different factions all either shooting at each other or inches away from doing so. This is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Miriam, in the second book, asks whether there's anyone in her entourage ''not'' working for the secret service. Her maid Kara responds, "Not me!"
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* GambitPileup: GambitPileup:
** By the third book, there are at least five different factions all either shooting at each other or inches away from doing so. This is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Miriam, in the second book, asks whether there's anyone in her entourage ''not'' working for the secret service. Her maid Kara responds, "Notme!"me!"
** The second trilogy is even worse, with multiple factions crossing Timelines Two and Three, most of whom don't even know about more than maybe three of the others, and don't know what those three are up to beyond ''something''. This eventually leads to [[spoiler: a US-backed counter-coup of the Commonwealth, despite no evidence of an original coup, only for the DHS to realise they miscalculated badly when they learn what the DPR ''have'' been planning.]]
** By the third book, there are at least five different factions all either shooting at each other or inches away from doing so. This is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Miriam, in the second book, asks whether there's anyone in her entourage ''not'' working for the secret service. Her maid Kara responds, "Not
** The second trilogy is even worse, with multiple factions crossing Timelines Two and Three, most of whom don't even know about more than maybe three of the others, and don't know what those three are up to beyond ''something''. This eventually leads to [[spoiler: a US-backed counter-coup of the Commonwealth, despite no evidence of an original coup, only for the DHS to realise they miscalculated badly when they learn what the DPR ''have'' been planning.]]
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* [[WhamEpisode Wham Chapter]]: At least one per book, but then Books 5 and 6 turn it up to eleven. [[spoiler:Stop all the clocks.]]
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* [[WhamEpisode Wham Chapter]]: VikingsInAmerica: The east coast of North America is ruled by Germanic kingdoms descended from a second wave of Norse settlement.
* WhamEpisode: At least one per book, but then Books 5 and 6 turn it up to eleven. [[spoiler:Stop all the clocks.]]
* WhamEpisode: At least one per book, but then Books 5 and 6 turn it up to eleven. [[spoiler:Stop all the clocks.]]
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* ChangelingFantasy: Deconstructed harshly. Miriam is secretly a noblewoman with magical powers from a medieval-type world, ''and it sucks''. Also in that [[spoiler: Miriam's "adopted mother" turns out to be her real mother.]]
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* ChangelingFantasy: Deconstructed harshly. Miriam is secretly a noblewoman with magical powers from a medieval-type world, ''and it sucks''. Also world where she is betrothed to a prince, but the story explores what that would actually mean: her noble family gained their status by using their magical ability to smuggle drugs and weapons, and she has no rights of her own but is expected to marry to secure her family's political and economic standing.
**Also subverted in that [[spoiler: Miriam's "adopted mother" turns out to be her real mother.]]
**Also subverted in that [[spoiler: Miriam's "adopted mother" turns out to be her real mother.]]
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* [[spoiler: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Gruinmarkt gets carpet-bombed with hydrogen bombs at the end of Book 6, and it's implied that the result is a global nuclear winter for the rest of that version of Earth.]]
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* [[spoiler: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[spoiler: Gruinmarkt gets carpet-bombed with hydrogen bombs at the end of Book 6, and it's implied that the result is a global nuclear winter for the rest of that version of Earth.Earth. In later books we see plants and animals recovering, but it's still a dangerous place to visit and obviously the death toll was enormous.]]
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* [[spoiler: GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion, though Miriam considers it.]]
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* [[spoiler: GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion, [[spoiler: though Miriam considers it.]]
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* WriterOnBoard: Stross occasionally takes time out from the plot to criticize US drug policy, though he usually weaves this into the text so it's not as noticeable.
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* WriterOnBoard: Stross occasionally takes time out from the plot to criticize US drug policy, though he usually weaves this into the text so it's not as noticeable. The twenty-years-later books also have their share of comments about US foreign policy and the excesses taken by a state in the name of "protecting" the public.
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* [[WhamEpisode Wham Chapter]]: At least one per book, but then Books 5 and 6 turn it UpToEleven. [[spoiler:Stop all the clocks.]]
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* [[WhamEpisode Wham Chapter]]: At least one per book, but then Books 5 and 6 turn it UpToEleven.up to eleven. [[spoiler:Stop all the clocks.]]
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* ''Invisible Sun'' (slated for publication early 2021)
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* ''Invisible Sun'' (slated for publication early 2021)
(2021)
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
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* XanatosSpeedChess: Almost all of the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters many]] characters get caught up knee-deep in intrigue and hatch their own elaborate plans. Predictably, everything starts going to hell very fast, and that's [[FromBadToWorse just the beginning]]...
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* XanatosSpeedChess: Almost all of the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters many]] many characters get caught up knee-deep in intrigue and hatch their own elaborate plans. Predictably, everything starts going to hell very fast, and that's [[FromBadToWorse just the beginning]]...
