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* WifeHusbandry: [[spoiler: Viole Falushe's motivation in ''The Palace of Love'', horribly mixed with TrulySingleParent.]] Subverted, though: after all the effort he's put into [[spoiler: raising clones of the girl he wanted to love him,]] it all falls flat: one is terrified of him, another falls for his nemesis on sight, and a third laughs in his face and regards him as something of a bad joke. Worst of all, Gersen uses them to reveal his identity, and that consequently costs him his life.
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* WifeHusbandry: [[spoiler: Viole Falushe's motivation in ''The Palace of Love'', horribly mixed with TrulySingleParent.]] Subverted, though: after all the effort he's put into [[spoiler: raising clones of the girl he wanted to love him,]] it all falls flat: one is terrified of him, another falls for his nemesis on sight, and a third laughs in his face and regards him as something of a bad joke. Worst of all, Gersen uses them to reveal his identity, and that consequently costs him his life.
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* SoWhatDoWeDoNow: The final lines of ''The Book of Dreams'':
-->"I have been deserted by my enemies. Treesong is dead. The affair is over. I am done."
-->"I have been deserted by my enemies. Treesong is dead. The affair is over. I am done."
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* SpoilerTitle: Part of the plot of ''Star King'' revolves around the fact that the villain is a member of a non-human alien race -- a fact that Gersen does not know for half the story, but which the reader's attention is inescapably drawn to.
* SpoilerTitle: Part of the plot of ''Star King'' revolves around the fact that the villain is a member of a non-human alien race -- a fact that Gersen does not know for half the story, but which the reader's attention is inescapably drawn to.
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* SoWhatDoWeDoNow: The final lines of ''The Book of Dreams'':
-->"I have been deserted by my enemies. Treesong is dead. The affair is over. I am done."
-->"I have been deserted by my enemies. Treesong is dead. The affair is over. I am done."
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* FictionalSport: Hadaul, in ''The Face''
* FictionalSport: Hadaul, in ''The Face''.
%%No idea what OP meant here* FoodPorn: The other half.
* FootnoteFever: The footnotes are seldom important to the core plot, instead adding color and forcing the reader to imagine what various strange words would sound like.
%%No idea what OP meant here* FoodPorn: The other half.
* FootnoteFever: The footnotes are seldom important to the core plot, instead adding color and forcing the reader to imagine what various strange words would sound like.
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* FoodPorn: The other half.
* FootnoteFever: The footnotes are seldom important to the core plot, instead adding color and forcing the reader to imagine what various strange words would sound like.
* FootnoteFever: The footnotes are seldom important to the core plot, instead adding color and forcing the reader to imagine what various strange words would sound like.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Skin, hair, and eye color can be altered at will. Notably, in the first book Gersen dates a GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Skin, hair, and eye color can be altered at will. Notably, in the first book Gersen dates a GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Alice Wroke from ''The Book of Dreams''.
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renamed to Clone Angst
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* CloningBlues: [[spoiler: Viole Falushe has spent his entire career cloning the woman he desired, but can't get any of them to desire him.]]
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--> '''Gersen:''': "In your youth, you committed many outrages."
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--> '''Gersen:''': '''Gersen''': "In your youth, you committed many outrages."
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* CounterfeitCash: Used in an ''epic'' scam in ''The Killing Machine'' [[spoiler: The in-universe equivalent of 10 ''trillion'' dollars]].
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* CounterfeitCash: Used in an ''epic'' scam in ''The Killing Machine'' [[spoiler: The to produce the in-universe equivalent of 10 ''trillion'' dollars]].
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* CounterfeitCash: When Gersen retrieves what's left of "Mr Hoskins", he finds what at first appears to be a mathematical riddle. Only later does he discover its significance; [[spoiler:it's the verification pattern for the galactic currency, and anyone who has informed possession of it can print themselves as much money as they want. Gersen later makes use of the knowledge to get himself out of a tight spot, and to thwart Kokor Hekkus's plans.]]
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* YouKilledMyFather: Part of Gersen's motivation [[spoiler: as well as Alice Wroke's]].
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* YouKilledMyFather: Part of Gersen's motivation [[spoiler: as well as Alice Wroke's]]. Inverted for [[spoiler:Otho and Tuty Cleadhoe,]] whose motivation is vengeance for the murder of their only son.
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* WhipItGood: Lens Larque (''The Face'') has a whip named Panak. A traditional art form on his planet, Dar Sai, is a dance where nude young men are whipped into performing acrobatic maneuvers by an older male.
** ''Very'' young men - the Darsh culture is essentially one of institutionalised paederasty, bordering on (if not crossing over into) paedophilia.
** ''Very'' young men - the Darsh culture is essentially one of institutionalised paederasty, bordering on (if not crossing over into) paedophilia.
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* WhipItGood: Lens Larque (''The Face'') WhipOfDominance: [[HumanSubspecies Darsh]] males are [[NationalWeapon famed for their prowess with the whip]] and their culture has a whip named Panak. several sadomasochist and domineering tendencies. A traditional art form on his their planet, Dar Sai, is a dance where nude young men are whipped into performing acrobatic maneuvers by an older male.
**male. ''Very'' young men - the Darsh culture is essentially one of institutionalised institutionalized paederasty, bordering on (if not crossing over into) paedophilia.pedophilia. The Fourth demon prince, Lens Larque is supposedly an "artist" with his whip but we [[InformedAbility never get to see him use it]].
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* SpaceSector: The Ophiuchus Sector and the Aquarius Sector in ''The Palace of Love'' are both collections of star systems.
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* ConstellationsAsLocations: In ''The Palace of Love'' Alusz Iphigenia says "Ophiuchus isn't a star. It's a sector". There's also a reference to an Aquarius Sector.
