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''Starcross'', the second book, involves TimeTravel, a French radical, some goblins who want to knit a cover for an asteroid, and a race of [[NiceHat nice hats]].
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''Starcross'', the second book, involves TimeTravel, a French radical, some goblins who want to knit a cover for an asteroid, and a race of [[NiceHat nice hats]].
hats. No, ''literally''.
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* ActionDressRip: Ulla does this when escaping Mr. Webster's mooks. Myrtle is horrified.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: They all have atmospheres that humans can breathe, at least.
** Then again, apparently so does space as a whole, if not something they can breathe for a long time.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: They all have atmospheres that humans can breathe, at least.
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* GeniusLoci: Thunderhead, Jupiter's Great Red Spot. A fully sapient storm.
** Smaller, also sapient storms make an appearance in Mothstorm.
* GenocideBackfire: Directly related to the above Chekhov's Gun.
* GiantEnemyCrab: Subverted; Nipper's pretty friendly.
** Smaller, also sapient storms make an appearance in Mothstorm.
* GenocideBackfire: Directly related to the above Chekhov's Gun.
* GiantEnemyCrab: Subverted; Nipper's pretty friendly.
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* GeniusLoci: Thunderhead, Jupiter's Great Red Spot. A Spot, is a fully sapient storm.
**storm. Smaller, also sapient storms make an appearance in Mothstorm.
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* ShoutOut: And how. Some of the more obvious ones include Franchise/StarTrek and Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds
* SickeninglySweethearts: Art's opinion of Myrtle and Jack.
* SingleMindedTwins: Squidley and Yarg, the Tentacle Twins.
* SssssnakeTalk: Every one of the Snilth, who have names like Zssthss and Alsssor. Lampshaded, where two characters agree that Zssthss sounds more like a gas leak than a name.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Art's opinion of Myrtle and Jack.
* SingleMindedTwins: Squidley and Yarg, the Tentacle Twins.
* SssssnakeTalk: Every one of the Snilth, who have names like Zssthss and Alsssor. Lampshaded, where two characters agree that Zssthss sounds more like a gas leak than a name.
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* SssssnakeTalk: Every one of the Snilth, who have names like Zssthss and Alsssor.
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* SpaceIsAnOcean: Oh so ''very'' much. Includes fish of all kinds and ships that look like sailing vessels.
* SpacePirates: The crew of the ''Sophronia'', at least in the first book.
* SpacePirates: The crew of the ''Sophronia'', at least in the first book.
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* SpaceIsAnOcean: Oh so ''very'' much. Includes The setting's version of space is a thin sea of ether home to fish of all kinds and ships that look like sailing vessels.
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* SteamPunk: Oh so very yes.
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* NiceHat: The Moobs.
** To be clear, they don't wear Nice Hats, they ''are'' nice hats.
* NinjaMaid: Ulla, when undercover.
** To be clear, they don't wear Nice Hats, they ''are'' nice hats.
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* TheReptilians: Ssilissa and the Snilth, kinda.
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* UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire: [[RecycledInSpace In SPACE!]]
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''Larklight'' is [[Literature/MortalEngines Philip Reeve]]'s Creator/PhilipReeve's ''other'' series, and waaay on the other end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism.SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism compared to ''Literature/MortalEngines''. A SteamPunk Space Opera, it consists of three books, all told from the point of view of Art Mumby and his sister Myrtle:
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* [[RightfulKingReturns Rightful Queen Returns]]: It turns out Ssilissa is the last of the Hammertail clan, which was wiped out by the Mothmaker when a Queen rose against her, sending their eggs into space on a comet. Ssilissa by the end has become the Queen of the Snilth.
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* [[RightfulKingReturns Rightful Queen Returns]]: RightfulKingReturns: It turns out Ssilissa is the last of the Hammertail clan, which was wiped out by the Mothmaker when a Queen rose against her, sending their eggs into space on a comet. Ssilissa by the end has become the Queen of the Snilth.
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* SssssnakeTalk: Every one of the Snilth, who have names like Zssthss and Alsssor.
** Lampshaded, where two characters agree that Zssthss sounds more like a gas leak than a name.
* StiffUpperLip
** Lampshaded, where two characters agree that Zssthss sounds more like a gas leak than a name.
* StiffUpperLip
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* SssssnakeTalk: Every one of the Snilth, who have names like Zssthss and Alsssor. \n** Lampshaded, where two characters agree that Zssthss sounds more like a gas leak than a name.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: In a somewhat meta example, Art and [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis Mr. Wyatt, the illustrator]], if the notes left in for him are anything to go by.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: In a somewhat meta example, Art and [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis Mr. Wyatt, the illustrator]], illustrator, if the notes left in for him are anything to go by.
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* LiteraryAgentHypothesis
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* BadassGrandpa: Amusingly subverted. The Verdant Meadows Retirement Colony Militia are rather ineffective, though they give it a shot.
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* AmazonBrigade / LadyLand: The Snilth are ''very'' matriarchal. Imagine Victorian-era gender roles, only reversed.
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* SpaceSailing: The spaceships look like ships, powered by a [[{{Alchemy}} mysterious chemical reaction]] called 'the chemical wedding'. There is air in space, though it's thinner than on any planet, and artificial gravity on most ships.
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* SpaceSailing: The spaceships look like ships, powered by a [[{{Alchemy}} mysterious chemical reaction]] reaction called 'the chemical wedding'. There is air in space, though it's thinner than on any planet, and artificial gravity on most ships.
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* VertabrateWithExtraLimbs: There is a mention of a six-armed waitress.
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* VertabrateWithExtraLimbs: VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: There is a mention of a six-armed waitress.
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* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:Amelia Mumby]]
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* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:Amelia Mumby]]Mumby]] and other Shapers, who are at least as old as solar systems.
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* TheyWouldCutYouUp: It's rather understandable that Jack is a little hostile towards the Empire, all things considered.
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* TheyWouldCutYouUp: It's rather understandable that Jack is a little hostile towards the Empire, all things considered.considered, given that he caught wind of plans to kill and dissect him and the other subjects of the Xenological Institute.
* VertabrateWithExtraLimbs: There is a mention of a six-armed waitress.
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* {{Fainting}}: Myrtle faints after the NakedFirstImpression of Richard and the rest of the Martian men.
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* NakedFirstImpression: How Myrtle meets Richard and the rest of the Martian men.
--> apart from a few barbaric necklaces of metal scales they were all stark naked.
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* DreadfulMusician: Myrtle, to the cactus creatures, as she drives them away from her with her hymn recitations.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: The giant Moths of the Snilth, who are even larger then ships and able to fly through space.
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* EvilCounterpart: The Mothmaker to [[spoiler:Amelia Mumby]]. Both are Shapers who elected to remain after forming a solar system. However while the Shaper of Earth's system preferred to observe and eventually raise a family, the Mothmaker tyrannically ruled her peoples as a Goddess.
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* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Averted by [[spoiler:Amelia Mumby]] the Shaper. When asked if the Shapers mean there are no Gods, she remarks "Who made the Shapers?" However the Mothmaker thinks of herself as a Goddess.
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* [[RightfulKingReturns Rightful Queen Returns]]: It turns out Ssilissa is the last of the Hammertail clan, which was wiped out by the Mothmaker when a Queen rose against her, sending their eggs into space on a comet. Ssilissa by the end has become the Queen of the Snilth.
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* QueenVicky: The books are set in 1851-1852, so naturally she makes an appearance.
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''Larklight'' is [[MortalEngines [[Literature/MortalEngines Philip Reeve]]'s ''other'' series, and waaay on the other end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism. A SteamPunk Space Opera, it consists of three books, all told from the point of view of Art Mumby and his sister Myrtle:
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* LighterAndSofter: This guy wrote another {{Steampunk}} series. [[MortalEngines You may have heard of it.]] They are ''total'' opposites.
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* LighterAndSofter: This guy wrote another {{Steampunk}} series. [[MortalEngines [[Literature/MortalEngines You may have heard of it.]] They are ''total'' opposites.
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* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Ulla, Ssilissa to a lesser extinct.
* TheHatMakesTheMan: The Moobs like to take the form of hats.
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* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Ulla, Ssilissa to a lesser extinct.extent.
* TheHatMakesTheMan: The Moobs like to take the form ofhats.hats [[spoiler:(but they're really shapeshifting, mind-controlling, thought-eating alien beings).]]
* TheHatMakesTheMan: The Moobs like to take the form of
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* GiantEnemyCrab: Subverted - Nipper's pretty friendly.
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* GiantEnemyCrab: Subverted - Subverted; Nipper's pretty friendly.
* GiantSpider: The FirstOnesOnes.
* GiantSpider: The First
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* NiceHat: The MoobsMoobs.
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* TheBritishEmpire: [[RecycledInSpace In SPACE!]]
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* ProudWarriorRace: The Snilth. Justified, as the Shaper who created them wanted wars between her creations.
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* ProudWarriorRace: The Snilth. Justified, as the The Shaper who created them wanted wars between her creations.originally had multiple species of ProudWarriorRace, but she liked the Snilth the most (they're a very lovely shade of blue).
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* QueenVicky: The books are set in the mid to late 1800s, so naturally she makes an appearance.
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* QueenVicky: The books are set in the mid to late 1800s, 1851-1852, so naturally she makes an appearance.
* TheReptilians:The Ssilissa and the Snilth, kinda.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Averted with Jack and Ssilissa; it was one-sided to begin with, and apart from Jack's [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy clear interest in Myrtle]] the impracticality of this is one of the reasons Ssil gives up on the idea. Played straight with Art and Myrtle's parents, although apparently their mother's biological body is entirely human [[spoiler:at least until the Mothmaker destroys it.]] However, Captain Moonfield does get married to a Snilth at the end of book three, so there is that.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Averted with Jack and Ssilissa; it was one-sided to begin with, and apart from Jack's [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy clear interest in Myrtle]] the impracticality of this is one of the reasons Ssil gives up on the idea. Played straight with Art Sir Richard Burton and Ulla and with [[spoiler:Art and Myrtle's parents, although apparently their mother's biological body is entirely human [[spoiler:at (at least until the Mothmaker destroys it.it).]] However, Captain Moonfield does get married to a Snilth at the end of book three, so there is that.
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''Larklight'' is [[MortalEngines Philip Reeve]]'s ''other'' series, and waaay on the other end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism. A SteamPunk Space Opera, it consists of three books, all told from the point of view of Art Mumby and his sister Myrtle:
''Larklight'' is the series-naming first book, introducing us to the world, where the British Empire stretches out across the solar system, and its inhabitants, including Art and his family, the unpleasant [[GiantSpider First Ones]], and [[SpacePirates Captain Jack Havock and his crew]].
''Starcross'', the second book, involves TimeTravel, a French radical, some goblins who want to knit a cover for an asteroid, and a race of [[NiceHat nice hats]].
''Mothstorm'', book three: a mysterious discovery on the edge of the solar system brings Art and co. to [[strike:Uranus]] [[IstanbulNotConstantinople Georgium Sidus]], and a ChekhovsGun loaded in the first book finally goes off.
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* ActionDressRip: Ulla does this when escaping Mr. Webster's mooks. Myrtle is horrified.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: They all have atmospheres that humans can breathe, at least.
** Then again, apparently so does space as a whole, if not something they can breathe for a long time.
* AmazonBrigade / LadyLand: The Snilth are ''very'' matriarchal. Imagine Victorian-era gender roles, only reversed.
* AndIMustScream: The settlers on Venus came down with Tree Sickness and turned into trees, though it's implied that since the transformation affects the mind as well, it's actually rather peaceful.
* BadassGrandpa: Amusingly subverted. The Verdant Meadows Retirement Colony Militia are rather ineffective, though they give it a shot.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Subverted. Space has a breathable atmosphere, but most species can only survive a few hours in it.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Myrtle, at least in Art's opinion.
* TheBritishEmpire: [[RecycledInSpace In SPACE!]]
* ChekhovsGun: A minor footnote on an amusing aspect of Threl mythology in the second book [[spoiler:becomes the major plot of the third. Well, minus the bit about eating the World Cozy.]]
* DyingRace: The First Ones, in this star system at least, as they are mentioned as colonizing other stars.
* EldritchAbomination: Though most of them are benevolent, it's shown that [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Shapers]] have the potential to become this.
* GeniusLoci: Thunderhead, Jupiter's Great Red Spot. A fully sapient storm.
** Smaller, also sapient storms make an appearance in Mothstorm.
* GenocideBackfire: Directly related to the above Chekhov's Gun.
* GiantEnemyCrab: Subverted - Nipper's pretty friendly.
* GiantSpider: The First Ones
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Ulla, Ssilissa to a lesser extinct.
* InstrumentOfMurder: The Snilth use blowpipes shaped like bagpipes.
* InterspeciesRomance: Averted with Jack and Ssilissa; it was one-sided to begin with, and apart from Jack's [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy clear interest in Myrtle]] the impracticality of this is one of the reasons Ssil gives up on the idea. Played straight with Art and Myrtle's parents, although apparently their mother's biological body is entirely human [[spoiler:at least until the Mothmaker destroys it.]] However, Captain Moonfield does get married to a Snilth at the end of book three, so there is that.
* InWhichATropeIsDescribed
* LighterAndSofter: This guy wrote another {{Steampunk}} series. [[MortalEngines You may have heard of it.]] They are ''total'' opposites.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis
* NiceHat: The Moobs
** To be clear, they don't wear Nice Hats, they ''are'' nice hats.
* NinjaMaid: Ulla, when undercover.
* NonMammalMammaries: Specifically averted - Ssilissa, a reptilian alien, doesn't have them.
* ProudWarriorRace: The Snilth. Justified, as the Shaper who created them wanted wars between her creations.
* QueenVicky: The books are set in the mid to late 1800s, so naturally she makes an appearance.
* TheReptilians: The Ssilissa and the Snilth, kinda.
* SecretProjectRefugeeFamily: Jack, Nipper, Ssilissa, Squidley and Yarg all escaped from the Royal Xenological Institute.
* ShoutOut: And how. Some of the more obvious ones include Franchise/StarTrek and Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds
* SickeninglySweethearts: Art's opinion of Myrtle and Jack.
* SingleMindedTwins: Squidley and Yarg, the Tentacle Twins.
* SssssnakeTalk: Every one of the Snilth, who have names like Zssthss and Alsssor.
** Lampshaded, where two characters agree that Zssthss sounds more like a gas leak than a name.
* StiffUpperLip
* SpaceIsCold: Referenced at the veeeery beginning of the first book.
* SpaceIsAnOcean: Oh so ''very'' much. Includes fish of all kinds and ships that look like sailing vessels.
* SpacePirates: The crew of the ''Sophronia'', at least in the first book.
* SpaceSailing: The spaceships look like ships, powered by a [[{{Alchemy}} mysterious chemical reaction]] called 'the chemical wedding'. There is air in space, though it's thinner than on any planet, and artificial gravity on most ships.
* SteamPunk: Oh so very yes.
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:Amelia Mumby]]
* TwinTelepathy: How the Tentacle Twins communicate with each other, since they can't talk.
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: It's rather understandable that Jack is a little hostile towards the Empire, all things considered.
* VitriolicBestBuds: In a somewhat meta example, Art and [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis Mr. Wyatt, the illustrator]], if the notes left in for him are anything to go by.
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''Starcross'', the second book, involves TimeTravel, a French radical, some goblins who want to knit a cover for an asteroid, and a race of [[NiceHat nice hats]].
''Mothstorm'', book three: a mysterious discovery on the edge of the solar system brings Art and co. to [[strike:Uranus]] [[IstanbulNotConstantinople Georgium Sidus]], and a ChekhovsGun loaded in the first book finally goes off.
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* ActionDressRip: Ulla does this when escaping Mr. Webster's mooks. Myrtle is horrified.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: They all have atmospheres that humans can breathe, at least.
** Then again, apparently so does space as a whole, if not something they can breathe for a long time.
* AmazonBrigade / LadyLand: The Snilth are ''very'' matriarchal. Imagine Victorian-era gender roles, only reversed.
* AndIMustScream: The settlers on Venus came down with Tree Sickness and turned into trees, though it's implied that since the transformation affects the mind as well, it's actually rather peaceful.
* BadassGrandpa: Amusingly subverted. The Verdant Meadows Retirement Colony Militia are rather ineffective, though they give it a shot.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Subverted. Space has a breathable atmosphere, but most species can only survive a few hours in it.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Myrtle, at least in Art's opinion.
* TheBritishEmpire: [[RecycledInSpace In SPACE!]]
* ChekhovsGun: A minor footnote on an amusing aspect of Threl mythology in the second book [[spoiler:becomes the major plot of the third. Well, minus the bit about eating the World Cozy.]]
* DyingRace: The First Ones, in this star system at least, as they are mentioned as colonizing other stars.
* EldritchAbomination: Though most of them are benevolent, it's shown that [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Shapers]] have the potential to become this.
* GeniusLoci: Thunderhead, Jupiter's Great Red Spot. A fully sapient storm.
** Smaller, also sapient storms make an appearance in Mothstorm.
* GenocideBackfire: Directly related to the above Chekhov's Gun.
* GiantEnemyCrab: Subverted - Nipper's pretty friendly.
* GiantSpider: The First Ones
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Ulla, Ssilissa to a lesser extinct.
* InstrumentOfMurder: The Snilth use blowpipes shaped like bagpipes.
* InterspeciesRomance: Averted with Jack and Ssilissa; it was one-sided to begin with, and apart from Jack's [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy clear interest in Myrtle]] the impracticality of this is one of the reasons Ssil gives up on the idea. Played straight with Art and Myrtle's parents, although apparently their mother's biological body is entirely human [[spoiler:at least until the Mothmaker destroys it.]] However, Captain Moonfield does get married to a Snilth at the end of book three, so there is that.
* InWhichATropeIsDescribed
* LighterAndSofter: This guy wrote another {{Steampunk}} series. [[MortalEngines You may have heard of it.]] They are ''total'' opposites.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis
* NiceHat: The Moobs
** To be clear, they don't wear Nice Hats, they ''are'' nice hats.
* NinjaMaid: Ulla, when undercover.
* NonMammalMammaries: Specifically averted - Ssilissa, a reptilian alien, doesn't have them.
* ProudWarriorRace: The Snilth. Justified, as the Shaper who created them wanted wars between her creations.
* QueenVicky: The books are set in the mid to late 1800s, so naturally she makes an appearance.
* TheReptilians: The Ssilissa and the Snilth, kinda.
* SecretProjectRefugeeFamily: Jack, Nipper, Ssilissa, Squidley and Yarg all escaped from the Royal Xenological Institute.
* ShoutOut: And how. Some of the more obvious ones include Franchise/StarTrek and Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds
* SickeninglySweethearts: Art's opinion of Myrtle and Jack.
* SingleMindedTwins: Squidley and Yarg, the Tentacle Twins.
* SssssnakeTalk: Every one of the Snilth, who have names like Zssthss and Alsssor.
** Lampshaded, where two characters agree that Zssthss sounds more like a gas leak than a name.
* StiffUpperLip
* SpaceIsCold: Referenced at the veeeery beginning of the first book.
* SpaceIsAnOcean: Oh so ''very'' much. Includes fish of all kinds and ships that look like sailing vessels.
* SpacePirates: The crew of the ''Sophronia'', at least in the first book.
* SpaceSailing: The spaceships look like ships, powered by a [[{{Alchemy}} mysterious chemical reaction]] called 'the chemical wedding'. There is air in space, though it's thinner than on any planet, and artificial gravity on most ships.
* SteamPunk: Oh so very yes.
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:Amelia Mumby]]
* TwinTelepathy: How the Tentacle Twins communicate with each other, since they can't talk.
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: It's rather understandable that Jack is a little hostile towards the Empire, all things considered.
* VitriolicBestBuds: In a somewhat meta example, Art and [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis Mr. Wyatt, the illustrator]], if the notes left in for him are anything to go by.
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