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First published by Creator/JanetAsimov and Creator/IsaacAsimov in 1986, this ScienceFiction {{Adventure}} story is the fifth story in ''Literature/TheNorbyChronicles''.
Norby has been teaching Jeff and Albany how to speak French so that they can put on an authentic recreation of a fictional description of UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette and UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution in order to promote a local museum's recent acquisition. While in the middle of the performance, they [[AccidentalTimeTravel suddenly find themselves in 18th century France]], caught up in the scandal of Queen Antoinette's necklace. Without Norby, how will they GetBackToTheFuture?
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!!''Norby and the Queen's Necklace'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* AccidentalTimeTravel: The protagonists are re-enacting a (fictional) account of UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette and her Necklace. As the replica is tied around her neck, they are suddenly transported to Paris, France, on top of the jewelers who made the original. Albany is forced to TimeTravel again, leaving Jeff and Fargo to face accusations of theft by themselves. As Norby tries to rescue them and return the real necklace, the replica continues to mess with his ability to maneuver in time, causing several wrong destinations.
* AlternateTimeline: The characters call these time-tracks, having created a "false" one when Albany took the diamond necklace that was the focus of UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette's scandal before it reached Comtesse de la Motte, [[HistoricalInJoke preventing the scandal from occurring in the first place]]. Without that scandal, UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution was a peaceful change in government, creating a constitutional monarchy. In order to [[GetBackToTheFuture return to their own time]], the characters have to first return the necklace to the jewelers it was taken from.
* {{Dedication}}: This is another Asimov book dedicated to Marg and Bill Atwood.
* FadingAway: In chapter four, Jeff and Norby are faint, and they guess that something happened to prevent them from being born/rebuilt, something that happened in the 18th century. Marcel queries a local about UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution, establishing that it was a violent revolution and the necklace caused a scandal.
* GetBackToTheFuture: By chapter two, Jeff has figured out that he's traveled back in time, and now they have to return to their time (and the [[CloseEnoughTimeline right timeline]]) and on stage to finish their re-enactment.
* HistoricalInJoke:
** Due to AccidentalTimeTravel, the protagonists are now at least somewhat to blame for [[UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette "The Diamond Necklace Affair"]], because Albany took the real necklace when she time-travelled away from the jewelers' shop. This created an AlternateTimeline where UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution was a peaceful affair, with the Queen being deported instead of beheaded, and her son becoming a constitutional monarch.
** Jeff finds himself present on the streets of Paris during the original Bastille Day, and has to escape the crowd so that Norby can find him and take him back to Fargo and the others.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The InUniverse skit and the story itself is based on the Creator/AlexandreDumas tale, ''Literature/TheQueensNecklace'', which is a fictional account of UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette and The Diamond Necklace Affair.
* MasterComputer: The Computer General has a few servers on asteroids, but is built with a SubspaceAnsible incorporated, causing it to "resonate" through [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperspace]]. It was built by [[NeglectfulPrecursors the Others]] to monitor the entire galaxy.
* NewspaperDating:
** In chapter two, the first time the characters [[AccidentalTimeTravel activate the necklace]], Jeff finds a newspaper on the floor, establishing that they're in Paris, France, and that they arrived on February 1, 1785.
** In chapter four, after Norby rescues Jeff and Marcel from the executioner, Marcel picks up a newspaper that says the date is April 16, 1896. Jeff can’t because he and Norby are FadingAway.
** In chapter eleven, Norby is the one who finds a newspaper, giving us the date of July 14, 1805. It shows that time has been changed, because people aren’t celebrating [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution Bastille Day]].
* ParadisePlanet: In one [[AlternateTimeline time-track]], this planet is named I-13 and is barren, tyrannical, and hostile to the protagonists. In the other time-track (the "true" timeline), the planet is well-terraformed, beautiful, with many children playing and a museum that is friendly to all visitors, even those illegal time travellers.
* PlaceBeforeTime: The Others built a [[OurTimeMachineIsDifferent time machine]] into a necklace, using metal they say is from before this universe was made. At the end of the book, they say that they will use this metal to help escape the destruction of this universe.
* ThePowerOfLove: Norby is comatose after the replica necklace gets attached to him. Jeff has to concentrate on his TouchTelepathy and invest in his love for his friend, first to contact [[NegectfulPrecursors the Others]], then to break the necklace safely. The Other helping him makes it explicit that it is Jeff's love for Norby that is needed to save Norby's life.
* ShoutOut:
** Creator/AlexandreDumas is mentioned for his fictional account of Queen Antoinette and the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, which also [[LiteraryAllusionTitle names this story]]; ''Literature/TheQueensNecklace''.
** Norby tries to mention Creator/CharlesDickens in chapter one, but is ignored. He later paraphrases from ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities''; "It was a far, far better thing I did", before getting interrupted again.
** When Marcel (from 1785) speaks to a 1896 local about TimeTravel, they admit to having read the recent novel by [[Creator/HGWells Herbert George Wells]], ''Literature/TheTimeMachine''.
** When Marcel is told about space travel, he asks if it is like the book by Creator/CyranoDeBergerac, ''Literature/VoyagesToTheMoonAndTheSun'', but only names the author.
** While offscreen and entertaining the ladies of the French court, Fargo sang Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart's opera, ''The Abduction from the Seraglio''.
** While entertaining the ladies of the French court, Jeff and Fargo sing several songs, including "Music/YankeeDoodle".
** While interrogating Jeff and Fargo, Creator/BenjaminFranklin mentions {{Creator/Voltaire}}'s ''Micromégas'', but only names the author.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: In chapter five, Norby refers to the spacer who rebuilt him as [=MacGillicuddy=], not [=McGillicuddy=], as established in ''Literature/NorbyTheMixedUpRobot''.
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First published by Creator/JanetAsimov and Creator/IsaacAsimov in 1986, this ScienceFiction {{Adventure}} story is the fifth story in ''Literature/TheNorbyChronicles''.
Norby has been teaching Jeff and Albany how to speak French so that they can put on an authentic recreation of a fictional description of UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette and UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution in order to promote a local museum's recent acquisition. While in the middle of the performance, they [[AccidentalTimeTravel suddenly find themselves in 18th century France]], caught up in the scandal of Queen Antoinette's necklace. Without Norby, how will they GetBackToTheFuture?
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!!''Norby and the Queen's Necklace'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* AccidentalTimeTravel: The protagonists are re-enacting a (fictional) account of UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette and her Necklace. As the replica is tied around her neck, they are suddenly transported to Paris, France, on top of the jewelers who made the original. Albany is forced to TimeTravel again, leaving Jeff and Fargo to face accusations of theft by themselves. As Norby tries to rescue them and return the real necklace, the replica continues to mess with his ability to maneuver in time, causing several wrong destinations.
* AlternateTimeline: The characters call these time-tracks, having created a "false" one when Albany took the diamond necklace that was the focus of UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette's scandal before it reached Comtesse de la Motte, [[HistoricalInJoke preventing the scandal from occurring in the first place]]. Without that scandal, UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution was a peaceful change in government, creating a constitutional monarchy. In order to [[GetBackToTheFuture return to their own time]], the characters have to first return the necklace to the jewelers it was taken from.
* {{Dedication}}: This is another Asimov book dedicated to Marg and Bill Atwood.
* FadingAway: In chapter four, Jeff and Norby are faint, and they guess that something happened to prevent them from being born/rebuilt, something that happened in the 18th century. Marcel queries a local about UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution, establishing that it was a violent revolution and the necklace caused a scandal.
* GetBackToTheFuture: By chapter two, Jeff has figured out that he's traveled back in time, and now they have to return to their time (and the [[CloseEnoughTimeline right timeline]]) and on stage to finish their re-enactment.
* HistoricalInJoke:
** Due to AccidentalTimeTravel, the protagonists are now at least somewhat to blame for [[UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette "The Diamond Necklace Affair"]], because Albany took the real necklace when she time-travelled away from the jewelers' shop. This created an AlternateTimeline where UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution was a peaceful affair, with the Queen being deported instead of beheaded, and her son becoming a constitutional monarch.
** Jeff finds himself present on the streets of Paris during the original Bastille Day, and has to escape the crowd so that Norby can find him and take him back to Fargo and the others.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The InUniverse skit and the story itself is based on the Creator/AlexandreDumas tale, ''Literature/TheQueensNecklace'', which is a fictional account of UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette and The Diamond Necklace Affair.
* MasterComputer: The Computer General has a few servers on asteroids, but is built with a SubspaceAnsible incorporated, causing it to "resonate" through [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperspace]]. It was built by [[NeglectfulPrecursors the Others]] to monitor the entire galaxy.
* NewspaperDating:
** In chapter two, the first time the characters [[AccidentalTimeTravel activate the necklace]], Jeff finds a newspaper on the floor, establishing that they're in Paris, France, and that they arrived on February 1, 1785.
** In chapter four, after Norby rescues Jeff and Marcel from the executioner, Marcel picks up a newspaper that says the date is April 16, 1896. Jeff can’t because he and Norby are FadingAway.
** In chapter eleven, Norby is the one who finds a newspaper, giving us the date of July 14, 1805. It shows that time has been changed, because people aren’t celebrating [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution Bastille Day]].
* ParadisePlanet: In one [[AlternateTimeline time-track]], this planet is named I-13 and is barren, tyrannical, and hostile to the protagonists. In the other time-track (the "true" timeline), the planet is well-terraformed, beautiful, with many children playing and a museum that is friendly to all visitors, even those illegal time travellers.
* PlaceBeforeTime: The Others built a [[OurTimeMachineIsDifferent time machine]] into a necklace, using metal they say is from before this universe was made. At the end of the book, they say that they will use this metal to help escape the destruction of this universe.
* ThePowerOfLove: Norby is comatose after the replica necklace gets attached to him. Jeff has to concentrate on his TouchTelepathy and invest in his love for his friend, first to contact [[NegectfulPrecursors the Others]], then to break the necklace safely. The Other helping him makes it explicit that it is Jeff's love for Norby that is needed to save Norby's life.
* ShoutOut:
** Creator/AlexandreDumas is mentioned for his fictional account of Queen Antoinette and the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, which also [[LiteraryAllusionTitle names this story]]; ''Literature/TheQueensNecklace''.
** Norby tries to mention Creator/CharlesDickens in chapter one, but is ignored. He later paraphrases from ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities''; "It was a far, far better thing I did", before getting interrupted again.
** When Marcel (from 1785) speaks to a 1896 local about TimeTravel, they admit to having read the recent novel by [[Creator/HGWells Herbert George Wells]], ''Literature/TheTimeMachine''.
** When Marcel is told about space travel, he asks if it is like the book by Creator/CyranoDeBergerac, ''Literature/VoyagesToTheMoonAndTheSun'', but only names the author.
** While offscreen and entertaining the ladies of the French court, Fargo sang Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart's opera, ''The Abduction from the Seraglio''.
** While entertaining the ladies of the French court, Jeff and Fargo sing several songs, including "Music/YankeeDoodle".
** While interrogating Jeff and Fargo, Creator/BenjaminFranklin mentions {{Creator/Voltaire}}'s ''Micromégas'', but only names the author.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: In chapter five, Norby refers to the spacer who rebuilt him as [=MacGillicuddy=], not [=McGillicuddy=], as established in ''Literature/NorbyTheMixedUpRobot''.
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