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* TruthInTelevision: Kip's difficulties talking to Iunio are this. Modern Latin education prepares students to read the language, not speak it--although there have been some advances on this front, most standard Latin texts are the literary works and letters of the upper class, not how most people would've actually talked. Plus, a lot of the pronunciation rules are based on guesswork, so to a native speaker's ears Kit's accent must be truly wild.
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* HumanityOnTrial: Quite possibly the UrExample.
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* HumanityOnTrial: Quite possibly the UrExample.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. It's ''Heinlein'', people. What did you expect?
** The book's "stages" actually help convey the colossal scale of events. Kip is transported to the Moon, and he marvels. Then he's imprisoned in an underground base on Pluto, and he goggles. ''Then'' he's rescued and taken to a planet orbiting Vega for emergency surgery, and he's dumbfounded. And finally he's transported to a different ''galaxy'' to be a witness at the Wormfaces' trial, and he muses that, "there comes a time when the circuit breakers in your skull trip out from overload."
** The book's "stages" actually help convey the colossal scale of events. Kip is transported to the Moon, and he marvels. Then he's imprisoned in an underground base on Pluto, and he goggles. ''Then'' he's rescued and taken to a planet orbiting Vega for emergency surgery, and he's dumbfounded. And finally he's transported to a different ''galaxy'' to be a witness at the Wormfaces' trial, and he muses that, "there comes a time when the circuit breakers in your skull trip out from overload."
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* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: An alien called the Mother Thing is consistently depicted as being loving and friendly. The aliens called Wormfaces are extremely evil by human standards, including kidnapping and [[ToServeMan eating human beings]]. When the Wormfaces face judgement before an intergalactic court of justice, the Mother Thing must recuse herself from speaking during their trial because she dislikes them so much.
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* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: An alien called the Mother Thing is consistently depicted as being loving and friendly. The aliens called Wormfaces are extremely evil by human standards, including kidnapping and [[ToServeMan eating human beings]]. When the Wormfaces face judgement before an intergalactic court of justice, the Mother Thing must recuse herself from speaking during their trial because she dislikes them so much.
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* NoOSHACompliance: Kip's spacesuit is a marvel of safety engineering, averting the trope. Peewee's cheap tourist model suit, on the other hand, plays the trope straight - any child that got lost on the Lunar surface would be doomed pretty quickly. ''No emergency radio?'' No water tank either, and the air tanks have bayonet-and-snap joints instead of the screwthread type that Kip has.
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* NoOSHACompliance: NoOSHACompliance:
** Kip's spacesuit is a marvel of safety engineering, averting the trope. Peewee's cheap tourist model suit, on the other hand, plays the trope straight - any child that got lost on the Lunar surface would be doomed pretty quickly. ''No emergency radio?'' No water tank either, and the air tanks have bayonet-and-snap joints instead of the screwthread type that Kip has.
** Kip's spacesuit is a marvel of safety engineering, averting the trope. Peewee's cheap tourist model suit, on the other hand, plays the trope straight - any child that got lost on the Lunar surface would be doomed pretty quickly. ''No emergency radio?'' No water tank either, and the air tanks have bayonet-and-snap joints instead of the screwthread type that Kip has.
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* PsychicPowers: The Mother Thing communicates partially by song, partially by some undefinable form of empathic projection. Kip never does pin down exactly how it works; he notes it's not true telepathy, because he has some trouble communicating with the Mother Thing's people when it came to certain concepts.
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* TelepathicSpacemen: The Mother Thing communicates partially by song, partially by some undefinable form of empathic projection. Kip never does pin down exactly how it works; he notes it's not true telepathy, because he has some trouble communicating with the Mother Thing's people when it came to certain concepts.
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* AscendedFanboy: Kip yearns to go to space. He gets more space than he ever expected.
* AsimovsThreeKindsOfScienceFiction: The book establishes semi-CasualInterplanetaryTravel, and is a ripping good yarn, but has very loving descriptions of how the titular spacesuit works and why it works the way it does, combining Gadget (a technological marvel of a one-man spaceship) with Adventure (a SecretWar between hostile and benevolent alien races).
* AsimovsThreeKindsOfScienceFiction: The book establishes semi-CasualInterplanetaryTravel, and is a ripping good yarn, but has very loving descriptions of how the titular spacesuit works and why it works the way it does, combining Gadget (a technological marvel of a one-man spaceship) with Adventure (a SecretWar between hostile and benevolent alien races).
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Invoked in-universe. The alien court only belatedly realizes that their captured Neanderthal is not an ancestor of modern humanity.
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** Invoked in-universe. The alien court only belatedly realizes that their captured Neanderthal is not an ancestor of modern humanity.
** Invoked in-universe. The alien court only belatedly realizes that their captured Neanderthal is not an ancestor of modern humanity.
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* AscendedFanboy: Kip yearns to go to space. He gets more space than he ever expected.
* AsimovsThreeKindsOfScienceFiction: The book establishes semi-CasualInterplanetaryTravel, and is a ripping good yarn, but has very loving descriptions of how the titular spacesuit works and why it works the way it does, combining Gadget (a technological marvel of a one-man spaceship) with Adventure (a SecretWar between hostile and benevolent alien races).
* AsimovsThreeKindsOfScienceFiction: The book establishes semi-CasualInterplanetaryTravel, and is a ripping good yarn, but has very loving descriptions of how the titular spacesuit works and why it works the way it does, combining Gadget (a technological marvel of a one-man spaceship) with Adventure (a SecretWar between hostile and benevolent alien races).
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Despite what Kip's father claims, the US Treasury actually ''does'' have the authority to demand tax payments in the form of written checks. While he's correct that paper money is valid payment ''"for all debts, public and private"'', paying your taxes isn't the same thing as repaying a debt.
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* MaltShop: Kip works as a soda jerk in a drugstore which also has a soda fountain, and which serves "thirty-five-cent malts"; he proudly claims to make "the thickest malts in town".
