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Not to be confused with ''Comicbook/Camelot3000''.
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* AlienBlood: It's yellowish, and when it's heated up to anywhere near Earth-like temperatures it ''explodes''. [[BizarreAlienBiology This is because it's made of oxygen diflouride rather than water, and has a boiling point far colder than the coldest Antarctic winter]].
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* AlienBlood: It's yellowish, and when it's heated up to anywhere near Earth-like temperatures it ''explodes''. [[BizarreAlienBiology This is because it's made of oxygen diflouride difluoride rather than water, and has a boiling point far colder than the coldest Antarctic winter]].
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* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Scores around about a [[Mohs/SpeculativeScience five]]. There's more than a little of the fantastic, but the underpinnings are largely solid—[[ShownTheirWork to be expected, given the author]].
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* AlienBlood: It's yellowish, and when it's heated up to anywhere near Earth-like temperatures it ''explodes''. [[BizarreAlienBiology This is because it's made of oxygen diflouride rather than water, and has a boiling point far colder than the coldest Antarctic winter]].
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* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Scores around about a [[Mohs/SpeculativeScience five]].
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* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Scores around about a [[Mohs/SpeculativeScience five]]. There's more than a little of the fantastic, but the underpinnings are largely solid—[[ShownTheirWork to be expected, given the author]].
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* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: Subverted. Trouble crops up because the philistine humans only THINK they appreciate the alien arts properly.
* [[AllThereInTheManual All There In The Appendices]]
* AndTheAdventureContinues: For Merlene, Hiroshi, and the cat anyway.
* [[AllThereInTheManual All There In The Appendices]]
* AndTheAdventureContinues: For Merlene, Hiroshi, and the cat anyway.
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* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: Subverted. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Trouble crops up because the philistine humans only THINK ''think'' they appreciate the alien arts properly.
* [[AllThereInTheManual All There In TheAppendices]]
Appendices]]: There's a bit of an InfoDump after the end of the story.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: For Merlene, Hiroshi, and the cat anyway. They can't go home ([[spoiler:it blew up]], he has heart issues, and it grew up accustomed to space), so they go on.
* [[AllThereInTheManual All There In The
* AndTheAdventureContinues: For Merlene, Hiroshi, and the cat anyway. They can't go home ([[spoiler:it blew up]], he has heart issues, and it grew up accustomed to space), so they go on.
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** Lookman.
** ''Encyclopedia Terra Digital''.
* CassandraTruth: Merlene is made aware of the mechanism by which [[spoiler:life on Ice makes a big nuclear bomb in the name of species-wide reproduction]]. The royalty rebuff it.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:''Literally every single facet of life on Ice'']].
* CreatorThumbprint
* {{Expy}}: Even the title admits that this ''is'' [[Myth/KingArthur Arthurian legend, life, and times]] at a temperature of thirty degrees Kelvin. It is set in (Camalor/Camelot), (Merlin/Merlene) is the wizard. There's also (Laslot/Lancelot), among others. There's plenty of dances, a royal caste system, the state religion, artisans, farmers, the beginnings of science, skirmishes and battles for no good reason…
** ''Encyclopedia Terra Digital''.
* CassandraTruth: Merlene is made aware of the mechanism by which [[spoiler:life on Ice makes a big nuclear bomb in the name of species-wide reproduction]]. The royalty rebuff it.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:''Literally every single facet of life on Ice'']].
* CreatorThumbprint
* {{Expy}}: Even the title admits that this ''is'' [[Myth/KingArthur Arthurian legend, life, and times]] at a temperature of thirty degrees Kelvin. It is set in (Camalor/Camelot), (Merlin/Merlene) is the wizard. There's also (Laslot/Lancelot), among others. There's plenty of dances, a royal caste system, the state religion, artisans, farmers, the beginnings of science, skirmishes and battles for no good reason…
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** Lookman.
The Lookman, which is sort of an offline smartphone.
** The ''Encyclopedia TerraDigital''.
Digital'' brings to mind the ''Encyclopedia Britannica''.
* CassandraTruth: Merlene is made aware of the mechanism by which [[spoiler:life on Ice makes a big nuclear bomb in the name of species-wide reproduction]]. The royalty rebuffit.
it and [[spoiler:end up causing the events to happen—it's possible that they shot Merlene down on purpose to prevent the masses from trying to stop it]].
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:''Literally every single facet of life onIce'']].
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Ice''. The various element-spewing grubs, the uranium "souls", the construction of the temple, the royalty's pets…everything works in concert to effect the reproduction of the species by ''starting a runaway nuclear reaction''.]]
* {{Expy}}:Even the title admits that this ''is'' [[Myth/KingArthur Arthurian legend, life, and times]] at a temperature of thirty degrees Kelvin.Kelvin—hence the title, ''Camelot 30K''. It is set in (Camalor/Camelot), (Merlin/Merlene) is the wizard. There's also (Laslot/Lancelot), among others. There's plenty of dances, a royal caste system, the state religion, artisans, farmers, the beginnings of science, skirmishes and battles for no good reason…
** The ''Encyclopedia Terra
* CassandraTruth: Merlene is made aware of the mechanism by which [[spoiler:life on Ice makes a big nuclear bomb in the name of species-wide reproduction]]. The royalty rebuff
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:''Literally every single facet of life on
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* HiveMind: All the keracks in a given city form one. One can even force the creation of a memory and extract such memories from the collective if the person who implanted the memory died.
* IdiotBall: The scientists and engineers for the mission. One of the characters managed to smuggle ''a cat'' onboard the spacecraft, and ''nobody noticed''. This may not sound like much, but a little mass goes a long, long way in space…especially when you're trying to travel from the Earth to the outer edges of the solar system.
* InfoDump: Many, not to mention the appendices.
* IdiotBall: The scientists and engineers for the mission. One of the characters managed to smuggle ''a cat'' onboard the spacecraft, and ''nobody noticed''. This may not sound like much, but a little mass goes a long, long way in space…especially when you're trying to travel from the Earth to the outer edges of the solar system.
* InfoDump: Many, not to mention the appendices.
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* HiveMind: All the keracks in a given city form one. One can even force the creation of a memory and extract such memories from the collective if the person who implanted the memory died.
died. Wander too far from the city and you lose access until you return.
* IdiotBall: The scientists and engineers for themission.mission seem to have used these as bearings. One of the characters managed to smuggle ''a cat'' onboard the spacecraft, and ''nobody noticed''. This may not sound like much, but a little mass goes a long, long way in space…especially space, especially when you're trying to travel from the Earth to the outer edges of the solar system.
system. Even shuttle-era launch protocols should've caught on to the cat's presence.
* InfoDump:Many, not Dr. Forward explains quite a bit in the main text, to mention say nothing of the appendices.
* IdiotBall: The scientists and engineers for the
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The humans give Merlene learning resources. She designs a form of crossbow that slaughters the army of the nearby city of Harvamor.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The humans give Merlene learning resources. She designs resources, which she uses to design a form of crossbow that slaughters the army of the nearby city of Harvamor.
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* ShownTheirWorkShownTheirWork: The author holds a doctorate, and no detail has been spared in the design and description of Ice and its inhabitants.
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* StarfishAliens: The keracks, definitely.
* WhamLine: Notable for the fact that it takes an already escalating situation near the end of the book and shoots it UpToEleven:
* WhamLine: Notable for the fact that it takes an already escalating situation near the end of the book and shoots it UpToEleven:
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* StarfishAliens: The keracks, definitely.
definitely, being as they are essentially cryogenic mantis shrimp that live on a ball of ice farther from the Sun than Neptune.
* WhamLine: Notable for its context, wherein [[spoiler:Camalor is about to nuke itself out of existence in an effort to continue thefact that it takes an already escalating situation near the end existence of the book and shoots it UpToEleven:a genetic lineage]]:
* WhamLine: Notable for its context, wherein [[spoiler:Camalor is about to nuke itself out of existence in an effort to continue the
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** Merlene.
* YourHeadAsplode: Or your body, if you're a kerack and you let the uranium pellet that your body contains heat your blood up too much.
* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: For the keracks, it's humans' continually uncovered mouths. For the humans, it is the openness with which the keracks defecate.
* YourHeadAsplode: Or your body, if you're a kerack and you let the uranium pellet that your body contains heat your blood up too much.
* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: For the keracks, it's humans' continually uncovered mouths. For the humans, it is the openness with which the keracks defecate.
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** Merlene.
Merlene. [[spoiler:Camalor is a crater, the HiveMind she was a part of is gone, her friends and relatives are dead, the humans are (mostly) going back to earth.]]
* YourHeadAsplode: Or your body, if you're a kerack and you let the uranium pellet that your body contains heat your blood up toomuch.
much. [[spoiler:Turns out, there's a reason for that feature.]]
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** For the keracks, it's humans' continually uncovered mouths. [[spoiler:Human mouths don't house reproductive organs.]]
** For the humans, it is the openness with which the keracksdefecate.defecate. If the door's closed, it's because of the odor, not because of modesty.
* YourHeadAsplode: Or your body, if you're a kerack and you let the uranium pellet that your body contains heat your blood up too
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** For the keracks, it's humans' continually uncovered mouths. [[spoiler:Human mouths don't house reproductive organs.]]
** For the humans, it is the openness with which the keracks
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''Camelot 30K'' is a science-fiction novel by [[RobertForward Dr. Robert L. Forward]].
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''Camelot 30K'' is a science-fiction novel by [[RobertForward Dr. Robert L. Forward]].
Creator/RobertLForward.
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* {{Expy}}: Even the title admits that this ''is'' [[KingArthur Arthurian legend, life, and times]] at a temperature of thirty degrees Kelvin. It is set in (Camalor/Camelot), (Merlin/Merlene) is the wizard. There's also (Laslot/Lancelot), among others. There's plenty of dances, a royal caste system, the state religion, artisans, farmers, the beginnings of science, skirmishes and battles for no good reason…
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* {{Expy}}: Even the title admits that this ''is'' [[KingArthur [[Myth/KingArthur Arthurian legend, life, and times]] at a temperature of thirty degrees Kelvin. It is set in (Camalor/Camelot), (Merlin/Merlene) is the wizard. There's also (Laslot/Lancelot), among others. There's plenty of dances, a royal caste system, the state religion, artisans, farmers, the beginnings of science, skirmishes and battles for no good reason…
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* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: For the keracks, it's humans' continually uncovered mouths. For the humans, it is the openness with which the keracks defecate.
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* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: For the keracks, it's humans' continually uncovered mouths. For the humans, it is the openness with which the keracks defecate.
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SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove and [[Administrivia/NeedsABetterDescription a better description]], too.
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NeedsMoreLove and [[NeedsABetterDescription a better description]], too.
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* AlienArtsAreAppreciatedAlienArtsAreAppreciated: Subverted. Trouble crops up because the philistine humans only THINK they appreciate the alien arts properly.
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Removing wick to Did Not Do The Research per rename at TRS.
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* DidNotDoTheResearch:
** 1998 [=ZX=] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_designation#Minor_planets would not be a valid provisional designation for a body in the Solar System]]. This, however, was probably intentional, given the [[ShownTheirWork level of detail]] given to everything else.
** In-universe, the keracks' blood is a substance that is a nice liquid at Ice temperatures. Cue an attempted autopsy of a kerack body in the lander. It explodes, ruining some of the scientific equipment.
** 1998 [=ZX=] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_designation#Minor_planets would not be a valid provisional designation for a body in the Solar System]]. This, however, was probably intentional, given the [[ShownTheirWork level of detail]] given to everything else.
** In-universe, the keracks' blood is a substance that is a nice liquid at Ice temperatures. Cue an attempted autopsy of a kerack body in the lander. It explodes, ruining some of the scientific equipment.
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:''Literally [[BeyondTheImpossible every single facet of life on Ice]]'']].
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:''Literally [[BeyondTheImpossible every single facet of life on Ice]]'']].Ice'']].
