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* UnwillingRoboticization: Enga was made into an angel against her will. Because of her resistance, the procedure caused severe brain damage, rendering her mute and almost immobile. Thanks to computer programs and decades of training, she can now move better than most angels, but she still can't talk.
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* UnwillingRoboticization: UnwillingRoboticisation: Enga was made into an angel against her will. Because of her resistance, the procedure caused severe brain damage, rendering her mute and almost immobile. Thanks to computer programs and decades of training, she can now move better than most angels, but she still can't talk.
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* UnwillingRoboticization: Enga was made into an angel against her will. Because of her resistance, the procedure caused severe brain damage, rendering her mute and almost immobile. Thanks to computer programs and decades of training, she can now move better than most angels, but she still can't talk.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Talirr was once a SpoiledSweet CheerfulChild, but she was punished harshly throughout her childhood in an attempt to stamp out her heretical tendencies. The treatments only succeeded in turning her into a bitter misanthrope.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Talirr was once a SpoiledSweet CheerfulChild, but she was punished harshly throughout her childhood in an attempt to stamp out her heretical tendencies. The treatments only succeeded in turning her into a bitter misanthrope.
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* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: The Gods feed off of dead people's souls, so if humans stopped worshipping them, they would have no more sustenance. They need to look good in front of humans to avoid a PR disaster.
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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Talirr begs Yasira, "Don't leave me alone again. Please."
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* TantrumThrowing: Talirr throws a fork and a water glass at Yasira during an argument about the morality of hurting others, as Talirr believes that people are lies.
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* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler:When torture fails to convince Yasira to kill everyone affected by the Outside on Jai, the angels abduct Tiv and threaten to hurt her even worse.]]
* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: Akavi shapeshifts into Tiv in an attempt to get Yasira to see things his way right before he tortures her.
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* TearsOfJoy: Yasira doesn't cry after the Pride of Jai's destruction until she learns that her girlfriend Tiv is okay.
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* TearsOfJoy: Yasira doesn't cry after the Pride of Jai's destruction until she learns that her girlfriend Tiv is okay.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:Akavi tortures Yasira in an attempt to force her to go along with his plan to expel all traces of Outside from Jai, even though that would kill everyone in the affected area.]]
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* SexForServices: In [[spoiler:the Outside-affected area of Jai]], one man offers to help Yasira, saying "I could protect you. You could, uh..." while staring at her neckline. Yasira snaps, "I can take care of myself."
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:When Yasira finally manages to contact Tiv, Tiv tells her that she has a new girlfriend. Yasira is upset, but tells her to move on and be happy.]]
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* OverTheShoulderCarry: Enga carries Yasira this way when she is recaptured.
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* NoSell: Enga fires thirty-seven shots at an Outside monster in 3.3 seconds, using every suitable weapon in her arsenal exactly once. None of them have any effect.
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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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* FriendlyAddressPrivileges: Talirr tells Yasira to call her Ev because "Someone should."
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* TimeDilation: [[spoiler:Yasira and Akavi travel outside the galaxy in search of Talirr for what feels to them like two weeks. Fourteen months pass for everyone else.]]
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* BeardOfSorrow: [[spoiler:Splió is a former student of Talirr's who was captured by angels of Nemesis for the same reason as Yasira. He eventually [[GoMadFromTheRevelation went mad]] from exposure to Outside ideas, so the angels simply kept him locked up. When Yasira finds him, he has a long, matted beard.]]
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* TheMole: Akavi hopes that Yasira can be one, gaining Talirr's trust and learning about her ideas to help defeat Talirr.
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* TalkingInYourDreams: Talirr contacts Yasira this way.
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* LivingShip: A species of aliens called Boaters has bred living spaceships that vaguely resemble giant manta rays.
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* SensoryOverload: Boater ships don't have shields to block out the noise and light of landing, like human-built spacecraft, so almost everyone becomes severely overwhelmed while landing on Jai. Yasira has it worse than the others and ends up in a TroubledFetalPosition, unable to voluntarily move or talk, for some minutes after the landing.
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* GreatOffscreenWar: The Morlock War with the Keres, a group of failed Gods who wanted to enslave and cull humanity. After billions of people were killed, Nemesis managed to defeat the Keres and banish Her from the galaxy, but every so often She invades again and kills thousands of people.
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* AlienSky: Jai, Yasira's home planet, has at least two moons.
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* LivingShip: A species of aliens called Boaters has bred living spaceships that vaguely resemble giant manta rays.
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* PeopleInRubberSuits: Yasira notes than when she sees Boaters in vids, they're usually portrayed by humans in rubber suits who run around screaming unintelligibly and brandishing scimitars.
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* CharacterTics: The angel Elu fidgets with his hair.
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* CrashingDreams: Yasira dreams about being attacked by spikes of color coming from her monitoring device, which keeps making pinging noises. She wakes up to find that the angel Elu is trying to message her.
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* ExtinctInTheFuture: Rhinoceroses and tigers are mentioned to be extinct.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Angels don't age, so Elu is about 75 but looks like he's in his late teens.
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* TearsOfJoy: Yasira doesn't cry after the Pride of Jai's destruction until she learns that her girlfriend Tiv is oka.
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* TearsOfJoy: Yasira doesn't cry after the Pride of Jai's destruction until she learns that her girlfriend Tiv is oka.okay.
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* CensorBox: In-universe example. Akavi has a filter in his circuitry that blacks out all [[EldritchAbomination Outside]] phenomena to prevent him from going insane.
* GravityScrew: In Talirr's craft, all six walls can serve as a floor depending on which one you're standing on.
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* {{Hologram}}: Akavi shows Yasira a holographic artist's reconstruction of an [[EldritchAbomination Outside]] event that destroyed an entire town.
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* CrashingDreams: Yasira dreams about being attacked by spikes of color coming from her monitoring device, which keeps making pinging noises. She wakes up to find that the angel Elu is trying to message her.
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* {{Terraform}}: How humans make new planets habitable.
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Yasira suspects the evidence she finds of Dr Talirr's presence is a trap, but she and Akavi follow it anyway because they don't have any other leads.
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: Yasira suspects the evidence she finds of Dr Talirr's presence is a trap, but she and Akavi follow it anyway because they don't have any other leads.
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Autistic physicist Yasira Shien has invented the Shien Reactor, the only energy drive that can transport people between stars without the help of the AI Gods that rule the galaxy. But when it's activated, it warps reality and destroys the space station, killing more than a hundred people. Yasira is declared a heretic and abducted, but the Gods offer her a reprieve from execution if she can help them find her mentor, Dr Evianna Talirr, who mysteriously vanished a year after she graduated.
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Autistic physicist Yasira Shien has invented the Shien Reactor, the only energy drive that can transport people between stars without the help of the AI Gods that rule the galaxy. But when it's activated, it warps reality and destroys the space station, killing more than a hundred people. Yasira is declared a heretic and abducted, but the Gods offer her a reprieve from execution if she can help them find her mentor, Dr Evianna Talirr, who mysteriously vanished a year after she Yasira graduated.
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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Akavi, a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Vaurian]] angel, has two dozen male forms memorized for generic situations, as his ShapeshifterDefaultForm has translucent skin and colorless hair and eyes that tend to make people uncomfortable.
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* WikiWalk: Yasira browses a database of information meant toa [[ShapeshifterDefaultForm colorless appearance]] with translucent skin be [[NeuralImplanting uploaded into angels' heads]], organized in an associative manner that mimics the way thoughts are stored. Yasira finds it hard to get used to - she keeps getting sidetracked and grayish-white hair and eyes.forgetting the way back.
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* TheDreaded: Nemesis is the most feared of the Gods. She handles criminals and heretics, often using torture or execution.
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* ReadTheFinePrint: Most mortals don't want to work for Nemesis, so She recruits by tricking people into thinking they're signing up for something temporary, while the fine print condemns them to a lifetime of servitude.
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* CatapultNightmare: Between the activation of the Shien Reactor and the destruction of the Pride of Jai, everyone on the station has bizarre nightmares that they assume are AnxietyDreams. Yasira sits upright in bed after one of them.
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* HeadsUpDisplay: The angels all have one.
* MatterReplicator: The angels use nutrient printers to make food that tastes exactly like the real thing.
* MatterReplicator: The angels use nutrient printers to make food that tastes exactly like the real thing.
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Autistic physicist Yasira Shien has invented the Shien Reactor, the only energy drive that can transport people between stars without the help of the AI Gods that rule the galaxy. But when it's activated, it warps reality and destroys the space station, killing dozens. more than a hundred people. Yasira is declared a heretic and abducted, but the Gods offer her a reprieve from execution if she can help them find her mentor, Dr Evianna Talirr, who mysteriously vanished years ago.
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* {{Cyborg}}: Priests have circuitry implanted in their brains that allows them to directly communicate with the Gods. Angels have more than half their neurons burned away and replaced by machinery, giving them a much higher bandwidth connection.
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* {{Antimatter}}: The Shien reactor works by reacting streams of particles and antiparticles with each other.
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* VerbalTic: Dr Talirr mutters "''Lies''" when she's stressed.
* VerbalTic: Dr Talirr mutters "''Lies''" when she's stressed.
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Autistic physicist Yasira Shien has invented the Shien Reactor, the only energy drive that can transport people between stars without the help of the AI gods Gods that rule the galaxy. But when it's activated, it warps reality and destroys the space station, killing dozens. Yasira is declared a heretic and abducted, but the gods Gods offer her a reprieve from execution if she can help them find her mentor, Dr Evianna Talirr, who mysteriously vanished years ago.
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''The Outside'' is a 2019 science fiction novel by Canadian author Ada Hoffmann.
Autistic physicist Yasira Shien has invented the Shien Reactor, the only energy drive that can transport people between stars without the help of the AI gods that rule the galaxy. But when it's activated, it warps reality and destroys the space station, killing dozens. Yasira is declared a heretic and abducted, but the gods offer her a reprieve from execution if she can help them find her mentor, Dr Evianna Talirr, who mysteriously vanished years ago.
A sequel, ''The Fallen'', is slated for 2021.
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!!''The Outside'' provides examples of:
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Before the reactor is activated, Yasira sometimes feels like the other people on the Pride of Jai don't take her seriously because she's by far the youngest team head and the only autistic one.
* CentrifugalGravity: The Pride of Jai is shaped like a giant wheel that rotates to create gravity.
* ChildProdigy: As a child, Yasira threw herself into physics books and ran around the house in excitement when she solved a problem.
* GutFeeling: Before the Shien Reactor is activated, Yasira has a feeling that something is horribly wrong with it, even though she can't find a problem.
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Autistic physicist Yasira Shien has invented the Shien Reactor, the only energy drive that can transport people between stars without the help of the AI gods that rule the galaxy. But when it's activated, it warps reality and destroys the space station, killing dozens. Yasira is declared a heretic and abducted, but the gods offer her a reprieve from execution if she can help them find her mentor, Dr Evianna Talirr, who mysteriously vanished years ago.
A sequel, ''The Fallen'', is slated for 2021.
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!!''The Outside'' provides examples of:
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Before the reactor is activated, Yasira sometimes feels like the other people on the Pride of Jai don't take her seriously because she's by far the youngest team head and the only autistic one.
* CentrifugalGravity: The Pride of Jai is shaped like a giant wheel that rotates to create gravity.
* ChildProdigy: As a child, Yasira threw herself into physics books and ran around the house in excitement when she solved a problem.
* GutFeeling: Before the Shien Reactor is activated, Yasira has a feeling that something is horribly wrong with it, even though she can't find a problem.
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