History Literature / AlienInASmallTown

* LivingToys: This is how Barney Estragon started out. He was basically a rich kid's TeddyRuxpin. And then he was abandoned in a world where he had less rights than vermin.

* HumanSubspecies: The Tesks, genetically engineered as soldiers, generations ago. It is mentioned that there are others, though only "Elves" are named.

* HumanSubspecies: The Tesks, genetically engineered as soldiers, generations ago.

* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: A lot of it. [[Literature/TheBible Paul, Steven,]] [[Myth/CelticMythology Nuada,]] [[Myth/NorseMythology Heimdall,]] [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Ishtar,]] [[Myth/NorseMythology Thrym]] [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Scyllaschild, Ares, Persephone,]] and [[Myth/NorseMythology Valhalla.]] Notable that Valhalla Crater on [[UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}} Callisto]] exists in RealLife.

* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: A lot of it. [[Literature/TheBible Paul, Steven,]] [[Myth/CelticMythology Nuada,]] [[Myth/NorseMythology Heimdall,]] [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Ishtar,]] [[Myth/NorseMythology Thrym]] [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Scyllaschild,]] [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Persephone,]] and [[Myth/NorseMythology Valhalla.]] Notable that Valhalla Crater on [[UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}} Callisto]] exists in RealLife.

* StepfordSmiler: In the end [[spoiler: Thrym becomes an Arachne and get his brain reworked to be always happy.]]

* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: A lot of it. [[Literature/TheBible Paul,]] [[Myth/CelticMythology Nuada,]] [[Myth/NorseMythology Heimdall,]] [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Ishtar,]] [[Myth/NorseMythology Thrym]] [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Scyllaschild,]] [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Persephone,]] and [[Myth/NorseMythology Valhalla.]] Notable that Valhalla Crater on [[UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}} Callisto]] exists in RealLife.

* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Sentient robots gained legal rights after the passage of the [[Literature/TheVelveteenRabbit Velveteen]] Act. However, there is still lingering prejudice against them, and ''some'' governments still allow their enslavement.

* StepfordSmiler: In the end [[spoiler: Thrym becomes an Arachne and get their brain reworked to be always happy.]]

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Basically how [[spoiler: Paul declares their love for Indira.]]

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Basically how [[spoiler: Paul declares their love for Indira.]]

* [[spoiler: CantHaveSexEver: Well, at the very end, they finally ''[[RemoteBody could.]]'' They just realize they don't want to, after all.]]

* [[UsefulNotes/{{Zimbabwe}} Zimbabwe]]: The location of Earth's capital city, as well as Tendai Tamsanga's birthplace. Apparently a pretty nice place in the future. Notably, they have monuments dedicated to the memory of all those who died during the AIDS plague, and also to "those who’d died under the vile 21st century tyrant Mugabe."

* NoodleIncident: Many off-hand references to places and historical events that are never explained in detail, like the Genomic War, the Android Uprising, and "the legendary lost ship ''Ograe Nyha."''

* FreakOut: What happened to Indira on Felice.

--> "Even after all this time on Earth, the little bipedal bloodbladders still all tended to look alike to him. [[BizarreAlienSenses The ground hummed for a moment as he took a sonograph of her,]] giving him a flash image of a delicate calcium... understructure, wrapped in a flexible form-fitting sack of goo. It was truly miraculous that such an... ''object'' could be a conscious being. "

* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: A lot of it. [[Literature/TheBible Paul,]] [[Myth/CelticMythology Nuada,]] [[Myth/NorseMythology Heimdall,]] [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Ishtar,]] [[Myth/NorseMythology Thrym]] [[Myth/GreekMythology Scyllaschild,]] [[Myth/GreekMythology Persephone,]] and [[Myth/NorseMythology Valhalla.]] Notable that Valhalla Crater on [[UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}} Callisto]] exists in RealLife.

* [[spoiler: IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy]]

* [[spoiler: WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove]]

* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove

* [[spoiler: WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove]]

* [[spoiler: IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy]]

* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy