History Literature / AndroidAtArms

* FireForgedFriends: Andas and Yolyos, not even of the same species, become fast friends and finally BloodBrothers as a direct result of their harrowing adventures.

* BloodBrothers: Yolyos suggests this to Andas, who accepts.

* AfterTheEnd: [[spoiler:The Inyanga on the far side of the CoolGate.]]

* AfterTheEnd: [[spoiler: the Inyanga on the far side of the CoolGate]]

* ApparentlyHumanMerfolk: Elys appears to be this, but turns out in the end to be FishPeople. [[spoiler:And a double-crossing Decoy Damsel besides.]]

* AuthorAppeal: Yolyos, a Salariki [[CatFolk cat-alien]].

%%* EldritchAbomination: (the night crawlers)
%%* FatBastard: [[spoiler: Hison Grasty]]

%%* TheMole [[spoiler: Turpyn]]

%%* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: Kidaya]]

%%* ThievesGuild ([[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]])
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: Or are they human after all?]]
* VainSorceress: Kidaya, when [[HiddenVillain she finally shows up]]

* WhichMe: The protagonists wake on a strange world and learn that they have been kidnapped and stored as {{Human Popsicle}}s, while being replaced by [[RobotMe android duplicates]]. The question eventually arises, which one is the RobotMe (a RidiculouslyHumanRobot by necessity) and which is the original, and how to prove it? When the main character, Andas, confronts a much older version of himself on his homeworld, both are deeply shaken -- each believes he's real, but how could a RobotMe be such a RidiculouslyHumanRobot as to do the various things each has done? (The protagonist refers to his older counterpart as "the false Andas"). [[spoiler:Another variation happens later, when he and one of his companions wind up in an AlternateUniverse, and he confronts a dying version of himself.]]
* AWorldHalfFull: [[spoiler: the Inyanga on the far side of the CoolGate]]

* TheReptilians: This novel is part of a setting that includes a reptilian race called the Zacathans. No Zacathan characters appear, but when examining the facility in which they had been imprisoned, the protagonists find plans for building a duplicate of an unknown Zacathan.

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%%* FeudalFuture: Inyanga, Andas' homeworld, is ruled by a monarchy.

%%* AmbiguousCloneEnding
* ApparentlyHumanMerfolk: Elys appears to be this, but turns out in the end to be FishPeople. [[spoiler: And a double-crossing Decoy Damsel besides.]]

%%* BadassNative (Andas)
* BathingBeauty (Elys, but with clothes on, the spoilsport)

* BloodBrothers (Yolyos suggests this to Andas, who accepts)

* DarkestHour: several in relatively quick succession.

%%* FeudalFuture (Inyanga)

%%* NoOneGetsLeftBehind

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots
%%* RipVanWinkle
%%* StrangerInAFamiliarLand

%%* YouCantGoHomeAgain

%%* TheMole [[spoiler: Turpyn]]

* [[ApparentlyHumanMerfolk Apparently Humanoid Merfolk]]: Elys appears to be this, but turns out in the end to be FishPeople. [[spoiler: And a double-crossing Decoy Damsel besides.]]

%%* [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]]: (the night crawlers)

* [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Humanoid/Alien Androids]]

* [[TomatoInTheMirror Tomatoes in the Mirror]] [[spoiler: Or are they human after all?]]

Science-fiction adventure by Creator/AndreNorton. Andas Kastor regains self-awareness on a barren prison planet where he has been incarcerated by unknown entities for unknown reasons. A power failure frees him and several companions. When they compare notes, they discover that they were all involved in critical time-sensitive situations - in different years. They also discover that the prison planet includes highly advanced technology which appears to be for creating [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots android duplicates of beings of various races]], and speculate that they may have been kidnapped in order to be duplicated and replaced. [[spoiler: The real explanation may be far more sinister, see WildMassGuessing.]]

* AmbiguousCloneEnding

* ArtifactOfDoom

* BadassNative (Andas)

* BecomingTheMask

* CasualInterstellarTravel
* CoolGate
* CoolKey

* DueToTheDead
* [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]]: (the night crawlers)
* FatBastard: [[spoiler: Hison Grasty]]
* FeudalFuture (Inyanga)

* IGaveMyWord
* LostSuperweapon
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: Kidaya]]

* RipVanWinkle
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand
* TheMole [[spoiler: Turpyn]]
* ThievesGuild ([[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]])

* YouCantGoHomeAgain

The ill-assorted comrades find a ship with navigation tapes for various planets, including Andas' home world of Inyanga. After a series of planet-hopping adventures, including some double-crosses and a few losses, Andas and his companions make it, only to find that the current ruler is...Andas Kastor, decades older and with three daughters. And then things really start to get wild....

!!Tropes associated with Android at Arms:

* ThievesGuild ([[RecycledInSpace In space!]])
* [[TomatoInTheMirror Tomatoes In The Mirror]] [[spoiler: Or are they human after all?]]