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* SapientFurTrade: In "Mirage", one of the seven sexes of the Martians has been almost completely exterminated by humans who prized their fur.
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* SapientFurTrade: In "Mirage", one of the seven sexes of the Martians has been almost completely exterminated by humans who prized their fur.fur, which could sell for fifty thousand dollars a pelt.
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Aversions are simply a trope not being used; they are not examples and should not be listed as if they were.
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* AliensNeverInventedTheWheel: ''The Big Front Yard'' short story has aliens who never invented paint.
* AllMythsAreTrue: The premise of the novel ''Out of Their Minds''. [[spoiler:Or rather [[YourMindMakesItReal human imagination made them real]].]]
* AlternateSelf: ''The Goblin Reservation''
* AllMythsAreTrue: The premise of the novel ''Out of Their Minds''. [[spoiler:Or rather [[YourMindMakesItReal human imagination made them real]].]]
* AlternateSelf: ''The Goblin Reservation''
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* AliensNeverInventedTheWheel: ''The "The Big Front Yard'' Yard" short story has aliens who never invented paint.
* %%* AllMythsAreTrue: The premise of the novel ''Out of Their Minds''. [[spoiler:Or rather [[YourMindMakesItReal human imagination made them real]].]]
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* BackupTwin
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*BackupTwinBizarreAlienSexes: In "Mirage", the Venerables of Mars have seven sexes, all of which are needed for reproduction.
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* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: ''City'''s main theme is the decline and fall of humanity, so there's plenty of the examples along the way. Eventually the earth reverts to its original state, but its masters are now [[StarfishAliens sentient, industrious and incomprehensible Ants]], and what will happen to it is a question.
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* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: ''City'''s ''City''[='s=] main theme is the decline and fall of humanity, so there's plenty of the examples along the way. Eventually the earth reverts to its original state, but its masters are now [[StarfishAliens sentient, industrious and incomprehensible Ants]], and what will happen to it is a question.
* FormerlySapientSpecies: In "Mirage", Mars was once inhabited by many different sapient species, whose collective civilization has now long since died alongside the planetary environment. One of them, the Venerables, who once had the most sophisticated culture, have only fallen to the level of primitive sapients; the rest have simply become intelligent animals, retaining fragmented and limited speech but otherwise living as beasts.
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* HumanityIsSuperior: Inverted. Humanity is a young race, if other alien races are adults then humanity is in kindergarten, and going to "school" is one of his favorite plots.
* HumansAreSpecial: ''Literature/WayStation'' and other stories.
* {{Immortality}}: Jenkins, the immortal robot in the ''City'', whose fate is to see the twilight of Humanity.
* HumansAreSpecial: ''Literature/WayStation'' and other stories.
* {{Immortality}}: Jenkins, the immortal robot in the ''City'', whose fate is to see the twilight of Humanity.
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* HumanityIsSuperior: Inverted. Humanity is a young race, race; if other alien races are adults then humanity is in kindergarten, and going to "school" is one of his favorite plots.
* %%* HumansAreSpecial: ''Literature/WayStation'' and other stories.
* {{Immortality}}: Jenkins, the immortal robot inthe ''City'', whose fate is to see the twilight of Humanity.
* {{Immortality}}: Jenkins, the immortal robot in
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* KillAndReplace: ''Good Night, Mr. James''. [[spoiler:The duplicate succeeds in killing the original, but finds out that [[ShootTheShaggyDog he was poisoned immediately after he was made]].]]
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* KillAndReplace: KillAndReplace:
** ''Good Night, Mr. James''. [[spoiler:The duplicate succeeds in killing the original, but finds out that [[ShootTheShaggyDog he was poisoned immediately after he was made]].]]
** ''Good Night, Mr. James''. [[spoiler:The duplicate succeeds in killing the original, but finds out that [[ShootTheShaggyDog he was poisoned immediately after he was made]].]]
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* MergingMachine[=/=]TeleFrag: Mentioned to have happened in ''The Goblin Reservation''.
* TheMultiverse: The "cobbly" dimension in ''City.'' All of the characters can move between the cobbly worlds and the original universe; eventually, [[spoiler: Jenkins has to move all of the remaining human beings there to protect the growing animal civilization.]]
* TheMultiverse: The "cobbly" dimension in ''City.'' All of the characters can move between the cobbly worlds and the original universe; eventually, [[spoiler: Jenkins has to move all of the remaining human beings there to protect the growing animal civilization.]]
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* NoTranshumanismAllowed: Averted for good in ''City'', which eventually brought humanity's downfall. Humans were initially baffled by unexplained disappearances of scientists, transformed to survive the conditions on UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}}, until one of them finally returned. It happened that the life of the transformed being was so much ''better'', that most people simply left the Earth and their humanity.
* OldRetainer: For possibly the '''Oldest''' OldRetainer ever, we have Jenkins, the robotic butler in ''City''.
* OldRetainer: For possibly the '''Oldest''' OldRetainer ever, we have Jenkins, the robotic butler in ''City''.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: ''The Goblin Reservation'', also the cobblies in ''City''.
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* PsychicPowers: ''Time is the Simplest Thing'', ''Ring Around the Sun'', the BigBad in ''The World of the Red Sun''...
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* PsychicPowers: ''Time is the Simplest Thing'', ''Ring Around the Sun'', the BigBad in PsychicPowers:
** In his first story, ''The World of the RedSun''...Sun'', the main characters place the TimeMachine on an aeroplane to avoid being {{TeleFrag}}ged by mountains or buidings.
** In his first story, ''The World of the Red
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* ReligiousRobot: In ''Message From The Stars'', the humans have [[{{Transhumanism}} transcended their physical forms]], casting aside their old religions as well as as the robots that used to serve them. Having lost the purpose of serving mankind, the robots have instead turned to Christianity. It is implied that their theological discourse will gradually turn Catholicism into a RobotReligion, just like Afro-American churches tend to have a black Jesus on the cross.
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* ReligiousRobot: In ''Message From The from the Stars'', the humans have [[{{Transhumanism}} transcended their physical forms]], casting aside their old religions as well as as the robots that used to serve them. Having lost the purpose of serving mankind, the robots have instead turned to Christianity. It is implied that their theological discourse will gradually turn Catholicism into a RobotReligion, just like Afro-American churches tend to have a black Jesus on the cross.cross.
* SapientFurTrade: In "Mirage", one of the seven sexes of the Martians has been almost completely exterminated by humans who prized their fur.
* SapientFurTrade: In "Mirage", one of the seven sexes of the Martians has been almost completely exterminated by humans who prized their fur.
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* StarfishAliens: IN SPADES.
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* StarfishAliens: IN SPADES. StarfishAliens:
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--> If he could only weep, he thought, but a robot could not weep.
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* YourMindMakesItReal: [[spoiler:In ''Out of Their Minds'' humans give life to all kinds of monsters by imagining them.]]
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* YourMindMakesItReal: [[spoiler:In In ''Out of Their Minds'' humans Minds'', [[spoiler:humans give life to all kinds of monsters by imagining them.]]them]].
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Lamarckism, and Lamarck Was Right in particular, refers to the inheritance of aquired characteristics. This has no relationship with that.
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* NecessarilyEvil: "Literature/{{Skirmish}}": All human development has been based upon synthetic technology of some kind, and thanks to InstantAIJustAddWater, people must either revert to savagery or knowingly enslave an entire species. (LamarckWasRight isn't an option here--even a ''sewing machine'' comes to life.) They choose to enslave the technology, viewing it as a necessary cost.
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* NecessarilyEvil: "Literature/{{Skirmish}}": All human development has been based upon synthetic technology of some kind, and thanks to InstantAIJustAddWater, people must either revert to savagery or knowingly enslave an entire species. (LamarckWasRight isn't an option here--even species (even a ''sewing machine'' comes to life.) life). They choose to enslave the technology, viewing it as a necessary cost.
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* CloningBlues: Duplicates in ''Good Night, Mr. James'' are treated as legally and morally expendable. [[spoiler:[[TomatoInTheMirror The main character's a duplicate]].]]
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* ExpendableClone: Duplicates in ''Good Night, Mr. James'' are treated as legally and morally expendable. [[spoiler:[[TomatoInTheMirror The main character's a duplicate]].]]
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** Also, in his first story, ''The World of the Red Sun'', the main characters place the TimeMachine on a plane to avoid being {{TeleFrag}}ged by mountains or buidings.
* PsychicTeleportation: In "Immigrant", all natives of Kimon are capable of teleporting att will. Some of the Earth immigrants managed to pick up the skill as well.
* PsychicTeleportation: In "Immigrant", all natives of Kimon are capable of teleporting att will. Some of the Earth immigrants managed to pick up the skill as well.
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** Also, in his first story, ''The World of the Red Sun'', the main characters place the TimeMachine on a plane an aeroplane to avoid being {{TeleFrag}}ged by mountains or buidings.
* PsychicTeleportation: In "Immigrant", all natives of Kimon are capable of teleportingatt at will. Some of the Earth immigrants managed to pick up the skill as well.
* PsychicTeleportation: In "Immigrant", all natives of Kimon are capable of teleporting
