History Literature / GaeaTrilogy

* {{Tsundere}}: [[spoiler:Chris and]] Robin's daughter Nova is a type A of [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Helga Pataki]] caliber.

-->''[[http://ammonra.org/gaea/ Wizard]]''

In the first book, titled ''Literature/{{Titan|1979}}'', a space expedition to Saturn GoneHorriblyWrong when the ship gets swallowed by one of the satellites and find themselves inside a living planet with a god complex. The crew all get separated at first, and [[EveryoneMeetsEveryone start looking for each other]]. They find useful aliens in the form of Smilers, six legged kangaroos you can eat without killing; Titanides, musically oriented, friendly centaurs, and Blimps; [[CoolAirship living dirigibles]] that willingly serve as transports.

* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Titanides have an incredible variety of possible appearances (smooth-skinned, short-furred, long-furred, ''any'' imaginable color and pattern). Above the waist, they all appear as [[FanService sexy human women, complete with boobies]], female and male both. They're also all hermaphrodites (although they identify themselves as either male or female) with three sets of genitalia (the frontal set determines gender identity, along with whether or not they can [[TrulySingleParent reproduce via parthenogenesis]]). [[spoiler: And they can interbreed with humans.]]

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: OneWordTitle: ''Titan'', ''Wizard, ''Demon''.

In the first book, titled ''Titan'', a space expedition to Saturn GoneHorriblyWrong when the ship gets swallowed by one of the satellites and find themselves inside a living planet with a god complex. The crew all get separated at first, and [[EveryoneMeetsEveryone start looking for each other]]. They find useful aliens in the form of Smilers, six legged kangaroos you can eat without killing; Titanides, musically oriented, friendly centaurs, and Blimps; [[CoolAirship living dirigibles]] that willingly serve as transports.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Gaea manifests as a plump, homely, slightly dotty but cheery and friendly little old lady. [[spoiler:Until ''Demon''—when she switches to a [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever fifty-foot-tall replica]] of MarilynMonroe—that is.]]

** This one raises FridgeLogic issues, as Gaea supposedly designed the Titanides' human-like and horse-like features based on the content of TV transmissions she'd picked up from Earth, starting in the 1930s. But nobody in the 1930s was broadcasting ''porno'' into space, so how could she know what human or horse genitalia look like?
*** It was however quite clear that Gaea wasn't above modifying her creations after the event of creation, remember she completely changed their sexual reproduction between the first and 2nd books to cut down on overpopulation[[note]]and morally enslave Cirocco[[/note]] after the war was stopped.

A Science Fiction Trilogy by Creator/JohnVarley describing humanity's encounter with a moon sized alien, and the indigenous aliens that live upon it.

In the first book, titled ''Titan'', a space expedition to Saturn GoneHorriblyWrong when the ship gets swallowed by one of the satellites and find themselves inside a living planet with a god complex. The crew all get separated at first, and [[EveryoneMeetsEveryone start looking for each other]]. They find useful aliens in the form of Smilers, a six legged kangaroo you can eat without killing, Titanides, musical oriented friendly centaurs, and Blimps, [[CoolAirship living dirigibles]] that willingly serve as transports.

* {{Tsundere}}: [[spoiler:Chris and]] Robin's daughter Nova is a type A of [[HeyArnold Helga Pataki]] caliber.

A Science Fiction Trilogy by Creator/JohnVarley describing humanity's encounter with a planet sized alien, and the indigenous aliens that live upon it.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Nothing supernatural about them; "angel" is simply the term applied to several different species of WingedHumanoid.

* RingWorldPlanet: The Tians.

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Gaea]], at least until the last book.

*** It was however quite clear that Gaea wasn't above modifying her creations after the event of creation, remember she completely changed their sexual reproduction between the first and 2nd books to cut down on overpopulation[[hottip:*:and morally enslave Cirocco]] after the war was stopped.

* GeniusLoci: Gaea[[spoiler:, and she's neither a nice nor a sane one]].

* InterspeciesRomance: Several examples with centaurs and humans, and at least one with an angel and a human.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Nothing supernatural about them; "angel" is simply the term applied to any of several different species of WingedHumanoid.
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Titanides have an incredible variety of possible appearances (smooth-skinned, short-furred, long-furred, ''any'' imaginable color and pattern). Above the waist, they all appear as [[FanService sexy human women, complete with boobies]]. They're also all hermaphrodites (although they identify themselves as either male or female) with three sets of genitalia (the frontal set determines gender identity, along with whether or not they can [[TrulySingleParent reproduce via parthenogenesis]]). [[spoiler: And they can interbreed with humans.]]

* TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin: Discussed in ''Demon''. Because Gaea is something of a sucker for cheesy classic Hollywood movies, she has internalized their cliches -- and by this point [[spoiler:she's decidedly playing the villain]]. The tricky part is is that she by and large expects the "good guys" to play by the movie rules as well...

* InterspeciesRomance