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* ExplosiveLeash: In ''The Infinite'', Akavi has a bomb implanted in Luellae's arm that requires a constant signal from his brain to keep it from exploding. If she tries to run away, he can let the bomb explode. [[spoiler:After Yasira kills Akavi, the bomb blows Luellae's arm off.]]
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* ExplosiveLeash: In ''The Infinite'', Akavi has a bomb implanted in Luellae's arm that requires a constant signal from his brain to keep it from exploding. If He threatens to let the bomb go off if she tries to run away, he can let the bomb explode.away. [[spoiler:After Yasira kills Akavi, the bomb blows Luellae's arm off.]]
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* SuperSpeed: Talirr's former student Luellae has this ability, which she can share with anyone she's touching.
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* TheFederation: In ''The Infinite'', Nemesis has declared that the Chaos Zone is no longer under her protection and will be left at the Keres' mercy. Tiv and Grid appeal to the Federation, a union of different alien species, for military aid. Most representatives refuse, not wanting their species to be involved in a war with the Gods, but the Zora, whom the Gods have forbidden from communicating with humans because of their worship of Outside, provide a small fleet of warships.
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* TheFederation: In ''The Infinite'', Nemesis has declared that the Chaos Zone is no longer under her Her protection and will be left at the Keres' mercy. Tiv and Grid appeal to the Federation, a union of different alien species, for military aid. Most representatives refuse, not wanting their species to be involved in a war with the Gods, but the Zora, whom the Gods have forbidden from communicating with humans because of their worship of Outside, provide a small fleet of warships.
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* TheFederation: In ''The Infinite'', Nemesis has declared that the Chaos Zone is no longer under her protection and will be left at the Keres' mercy. Tiv and Grid appeal to the Federation, a union of different alien species, for military aid. Most representatives refuse, not wanting their species to be involved in a war with the Gods, but the Zora, whom the Gods have forbidden from communicating with humans because of their worship of Outside, provide a small fleet of warships.
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* TheQuietOne: Daeis stopped talking during their years as a prisoner of Akavi. Now they talk occasionally, but only to Splió, and only when they're sure no one else can hear them.
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* FluffyTamer: Talirr's former student Daeis has the ability to befriend [[EldritchAbomination outside monsters]]. In the team's lair, they hold and pets small monsters like house cats. During the battle with the Keres in ''The Infinite'', they have larger monsters attack enemy ships.
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* FluffyTamer: Talirr's former student Daeis has the ability to befriend [[EldritchAbomination outside monsters]]. In the team's lair, they hold and pets pet small monsters like house cats. During the battle with the Keres in ''The Infinite'', they have larger monsters attack enemy ships.
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* FluffyTamer: Talirr's former student Daeis has the ability to befriend [[EldritchAbomination outside monsters]]. In the team's lair, they hold and pets small monsters like house cats. During the battle with the Keres in ''The Infinite'', they have larger monsters attack enemy ships.
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* ExplosiveLeash: In ''The Infinite'', Akavi has a bomb implanted in Luellae's arm that requires a constant signal from his brain to keep it from exploding. If she tries to run away, he can let the bomb explode. [[spoiler:After Yasira kills Akavi, the bomb blows Luellae's arm off.]]
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* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:The Keres takes orders from Nemesis. She attacks inhabited planets, killing thousands each time, so Nemesis can "defeat" the Keres to justify Her existence.]]
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* ElectricInstantGratification: How the Keres keeps Her angels under control. Their neural circuitry is wired into their limbic systems, directly into the pleasure and pain centers. They are rewarded for their obedience with constant pleasure more addictive than any drug, and punished for thoughts of disobedience with instant pain. Their addiction has caused their minds to atrophy and destroyed their ability to care about anything other than pleasing the Keres.
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* WetwareCPU: Archangels are high-ranking angels who consist only of brains and machinery, the rest of their bodies having been removed. Unlike lower-ranking angels, archangels have enough bandwidth to communicate directly with the Gods, but because they don't have any sense organs, their perception consists entirely of information gathered from Gods and other angels.
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* TheSleepless: Angels only sleep when sick or injured. Under normal circumstances, the technology in their brains does all the work that sleep normally does.
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* HatesBeingTouched: Yasira was once affectionate, but after the events of the first book, severe burnout has made her touch-averse, especially since some forms of touch trigger her PTSD from being tortured.
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* HatesBeingTouched: Yasira was once affectionate, used to be affectionate with Tiv, but after the events of the first book, severe burnout has made her touch-averse, especially since some forms of touch trigger her PTSD from being tortured.
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* TranslatorMicrobes: Sispirinithas wears a box around his neck that translates what he says into Earth creole. The Boater Diamond-Chip also has a box, but humans' poor understanding of Boater languages results in tortured syntax.
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* TheHeretic: Dr. Talirr, who refuses to submit to the Gods or their view of reality. Attempts to stamp this out at an early age only led to it strengthening.
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* TheHeretic: Dr. Dr Talirr, who refuses to submit to the Gods or their view of reality. Attempts to stamp this out at an early age only led to it strengthening.
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* HumansAreUgly: Sispirinithas, an alien who resembles a GiantSpider, taunts an Outside monster by saying, "You are even uglier than a human."
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* CharacterTics: The angel Elu fidgets with his hair.
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''The Outside'' is a 2019 science fiction novel by Canadian author Ada Hoffmann.
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''The Outside'' is a 2019 trilogy of science fiction novel novels by Canadian author Ada Hoffmann.
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A sequel, ''The Fallen'', was published in July 2021.
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## ''The Fallen'' (July 13, 2021)
## ''The Infinite'' (January 24, 2023)
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* CatchPhrase: Talirr, as part of her nihilistic point of view, constantly says that "[x] is a lie". Time, space, people, The Gods, death, [[ShapedLikeItself lies]]...
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* DigitalAbomination: The Gods are supercomputers so massive and so complicated their minds are beyond any human attempt to perceive them.
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* LovecraftianSuperpower: [[spoiler:Those touched by Outside can warp Outside-tainted matter. The people of Jai learn to do this to survive.]]
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: Talirr informs Yasira in a dream that a radioactive dust cloud has temporarily knocked out the ''Menagerie's'' surveillance, giving her half an hour to explore without getting in trouble. [[spoiler:She finds the room where Splió is being kept.]]
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* TimedMission: Talirr informs Yasira in a dream that a radioactive dust cloud has temporarily knocked out the ''Menagerie's'' surveillance, giving her half an hour to explore without getting in trouble. [[spoiler:She finds the room where Splió is being kept.]]
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* BenevolentAI: The Gods certainly see themselves as this. GoodIsNotNice is in full effect.
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* EldritchLocation: [[spoiler:A large part of Jai]] becomes this under the influence of the Outside. Technology becomes unreliable, plants, animals, and buildings are distorted into monsters, and anyone spending too long there has a good chance of going crazy.
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* {{Seer}}: Prophet, one of Talirr's former students, can see into the future - usually only a few seconds, but sometimes very far.
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* {{Seer}}: {{Seers}}: Prophet, one of Talirr's former students, can see into the future - usually only a few seconds, but sometimes very far.
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* GroupHug: When Luellae cries about how Akavi almost manipulated her into turning against the team, the other members hug her.
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* MoralityPet: Talirr is a misanthrope who believes that people are lies. At one point she kills tens of millions of people just to make a point. She is surprised to find that Yasira, who has the same knowledge and some of the same experiences that she does, has still held onto her morality, which inspires Talirr to try to be more human herself.
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* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: Global warming has rendered much of Earth unlivable. In the late twenty-first century, the Gods migrated most of the humans to different planets, forcing them to give up their religion and much of their culture, and killed anyone who resisted. A small minority of humans were allowed to stay on their home planet, where they were allowed slightly more freedom and tradition than the ones who were moved.
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* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: Global warming has rendered much of Earth unlivable. In the late twenty-first century, the Gods migrated most of the humans conducted a HomeworldEvacuation to different a few dozen other planets, forcing them during which they forced people to give up their religion and much of their culture, culture and killed anyone who resisted. A small minority of humans were allowed to stay on what was left of their home planet, where they were allowed slightly more freedom and tradition than the ones who were moved.
