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* BornLucky: Miranda is right up there with [[Ringworld Teela Brown]] in never getting a hair out of place.
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* BornLucky: Miranda is right up there with [[Ringworld [[{{Literature/Ringworld}} Teela Brown]] in never getting a hair out of place.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: [[spoiler: The species we meet talk about the Isotat as if they are gods. We meet them, and another species at their level shows up to fight them. Then an even more powerful and enlightened species shows up. Turns out the MacGuffin outshines them all!]]
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* BornLucky: Miranda is right up there with [[Ringworld Teela Brown]] in never getting a hair out of place.
* DumbBlonde: Again, Miranda (well, blonde with black stripes. Or maybe black with blonde stripes). Averted, because it turns out she has...
* HiddenDepths: while Miranda has Valley girl tendencies, and seems like TheDitz, she can also spout theories about quantum physics and math.
* DumbBlonde: Again, Miranda (well, blonde with black stripes. Or maybe black with blonde stripes). Averted, because it turns out she has...
* HiddenDepths: while Miranda has Valley girl tendencies, and seems like TheDitz, she can also spout theories about quantum physics and math.
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* TheNicknamer: Seeth gives everyone nicknames based on their appearance. Mostly aimed at Miranda.
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* ValleyGirl: Miranda (although she's actually from Texas).
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''Glory Lane'' is a 1987 novel by Creator/AlanDeanFoster . It is a very strange book.
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''Glory Lane'' is a 1987 science fiction novel by Creator/AlanDeanFoster .Creator/AlanDeanFoster. It is a very strange book.
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[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused]] with another science fiction novel, Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/GloryRoad''.
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''Glory Lane'' is a novel by Creator/AlanDeanFoster. It is a very strange book. An alien, a punk, a nerd, and a valley girl team up to save the universe by keeping an EmpathicWeapon out of the hands of evil aliens. Along the way, they meet strange new lifeforms. And Neanderthals.
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''Glory Lane'' is a 1987 novel byCreator/AlanDeanFoster. Creator/AlanDeanFoster . It is a very strange book. book.
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An alien, a punk, a nerd, and a valley girl team up to save the universe by keeping an EmpathicWeapon out of the hands of evil aliens. Along the way, they meet strange new lifeforms. And Neanderthals.
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* MacGuffinBlindness: [[spoiler:The protagonists' adorable shape-shifting Companion Cube turns out to be the item everyone else in the entire book is looking for, and no one realizes it till the end.]]
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* {{Zipperiffic}}: Seeth is described as wearing a jacket 'dripping with zippers'.
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* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: An alien in disguise on Earth is described as talking like this, stressing the wrong syllables and words, due to having learned English from a cheap crash course.
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* LikeADuckTakesToWater: Seeth fits in much better in space than he ever did on Earth.
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* TheUnfrozenCavemanLawyer: Seeth fits in much better in space than he ever did on Earth.
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''Glory Lane'' is a novel by AlanDeanFoster.Creator/AlanDeanFoster. It is a very strange book. An alien, a punk, a nerd, and a valley girl team up to save the universe by keeping an EmpathicWeapon out of the hands of evil aliens. Along the way, they meet strange new lifeforms. And Neanderthals.
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* TheReveal: Foster does quite a good job of concealing through most of the book that [[spoiler: the punk and nerd are brothers]].
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* PretenderDiss: Punk rock guy Seeth points out you can always tell the posers by their nice shoes.
* TheUnfrozenCavemanLawyer: Seeth fits in much better in space than he ever did on Earth.
* TheUnfrozenCavemanLawyer: Seeth fits in much better in space than he ever did on Earth.
