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* HostileTerraforming: Turns out to be the motive of both the Hemn and the Others. [[spoiler:The Others want to turn the world into a desert, kill most humans, and infect everyone else with a parasite that [[BodyHorror turns them into plants]] the Others can eat. The Hemn want to cause runaway GlobalWarming to create a hot, humid ocean planet where their civilization can flourish.]]
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* {{Terraform}}: [[spoiler:Turns out to be the motive of both the Hemn and the Others. The Others want to turn the world into a desert, kill most humans, and infect everyone else with a parasite that [[BodyHorror turns them into plants]] the Others can eat. The Hemn want to cause runaway GlobalWarming to create a hot, humid ocean planet where their civilization can flourish.]]
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* {{Terraform}}: [[spoiler:Turns out to be the motive of both the Hemn and the Others. The Others want to turn the world into a desert, kill most humans, and infect everyone else with a parasite that [[BodyHorror turns them into plants]] the Others can eat. The Hemn want to cause runaway ClimateChange GlobalWarming to create a hot, humid ocean planet where their civilization can flourish.]]
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Robin and his partner Shadow are desert wanderers in the post-apocalyptic American Southwest. Despite their efforts to help locals, they are regarded with suspicion for Robin's connection to the monstrous fireworms and his ability to dowse for water, and most people know Robin only as Daystar.
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Robin and his partner Shadow are desert wanderers in the post-apocalyptic American Southwest. Despite their efforts to help locals, they are regarded with suspicion for Robin's connection to the monstrous fireworms [[SandWorm fireworms]] and his ability to dowse for water, and most people know Robin only as Daystar.
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* {{Terraform}}: [[spoiler:Turns out to be the motive of both the Hemn and the Others. The Others want to turn the world into a desert, kill most humans, and infect everyone else with a parasite that [[BodyHorror turns them into plants]] the Others can eat. The Hemn want to cause runaway GlobalWarming ClimateChange to create a hot, humid ocean planet where their civilization can flourish.]]
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* IDidWhatIHadtoDo: When Robin feels guilty for interrogating some priests, then killing them for knowing too much and [[FieryCoverup burning the church down]], Shadow reminds him that it was necessary.
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* IDidWhatIHadtoDo: IDidWhatIHadToDo: When Robin feels guilty for interrogating some priests, then killing them for knowing too much and [[FieryCoverup burning the church down]], Shadow reminds him that it was necessary.
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* PathOfInspiration: The New Christians seem like an extremely powerful organization of fundamentalists who want to keep their society as technologically simple as possible. [[spoiler:In fact, their leaders are infected with mind control parasites from the Others, who have programmed them to do their bidding.]]
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* ThrowAwayGuns: Shadow tosses her laser aside when it runs out of power.
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* {{Terraform}}: [[spoiler:Turns out to be the motive of both the Hemn and the Others. The Others want to turn the world into a desert, kill most humans, and infect everyone else with a parasite that [[BodyHorror turns them into plants]] the Others can eat. The Hemn want to cause runaway GlobalWarming to create a hot, humid ocean planet where their civilization can flourish.]]
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* StarfishAliens: The Hemn, aka [[spoiler:the Monitors]], are a HiveMind that resemble sea anemones, live in pools of a mysterious solution to avoid being killed by Earth's atmosphere, communicate telepathically via a mixture of ideas and images that coalesce into words, and refer to themselves as "I/We."
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* GoodCopBadCop: Robin and Willy do this on a priest. Willy uses the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique until he breaks, then leaves him alone with Robin for a gentler interrogation.
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* WorkingOutTheirEmotions: Robin deals with what he calls brain-burners, when his mind races out of control and he starts to retreat inside himself, by sprinting a few miles until he's burned off the excess energy. He teaches Shadow to do the same.
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* IDidWhatIHadtoDo: When Robin feels guilty for interrogating some priests, then killing them for knowing too much and [[FieryCoverup burning the church down]], Shadow reminds him that it was necessary.
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* GoalOrientedEvolution: [[spoiler:Autism is the next stage in human evolution, as it comes with abilities such as {{telepathy}} and water dowsing.]]
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* {{Telepathy}}: Robin and Shadow communicate primarily by telepathically feeling each other's emotions. Robin can do it with dolphins, too.
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* {{Telepathy}}: Robin and Shadow communicate primarily by telepathically feeling each other's emotions. Robin can do it with dolphins, too. [[spoiler:It turns out every autistic has it, although most aren't nearly as good at using it as Shadow and Robin.]]
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* PrecisionFStrike: While talking about Robin's relationship with fireworms, Shadow asks him, "Then what is the goddamn connection?" Robin is startled, as he's never heard her use profanity before, which helps emphasize her point.
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* PowerStrainBlackout: Under Shadow's leadership, a group of prisoners with barely-developed psychic powers try to put their four guards to sleep. They have little success, and by the end most of them are nonfunctional from exhaustion.
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* FullFrontalAssault: Robin and Shadow are surprised by enemy soldiers right after having sex. Robin has Shadow run to safety with their clothes while he fires back naked.
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* TheirFirstTime: Robin and Shadow have awkward, unsatisfying sex while hiding above the entrance to the New Christian stronghold. Afterward, Shadow is distant, which Robin eventually realizes is because he only used his body when she wanted him to use his mind as well.
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* AirVentPassageway: A monkey crawls through a vent in the New Christians' stronghold to free Robin when he's tied up.
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* RayGun: Robin is shocked to see that Shadow's kidnappers all have lasers, as lasers are extremely rare.
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* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: Using all his mental ability, Robin can get a smoky view of what Shadow is looking at.
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* NightVisionGoggles: The sentries outside the New Christians' citadel wear helmets with infrared goggles at night.
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* DisabilitySuperpower: [[spoiler:All autistics have telepathy.]]
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* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Robin's fight against a MindProbe involves hiding in a cave inside his mind and trying to block it off with bricks, while the probe is represented by fire. Robin and the probe attack each other with various weapons and animals, with Robin receiving psychic assistance from Shadow.
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* PostVictoryCollapse: Robin faints after frying the mind probe.
* PottyFailure: Robin loses control of his bladder while fighting the mind probe. He clings to the feeling of wetness, which gives him a hold on the outside world.
* PottyFailure: Robin loses control of his bladder while fighting the mind probe. He clings to the feeling of wetness, which gives him a hold on the outside world.
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* ObfuscatingInsanity: Diego pretends to be autistic in the hopes of being captured by the New Christians so Robin can follow them and find out where they've taken Diego's sister and Shadow.
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* AbandonTheDisabled: This was Robin and presumably Shadow's hometowns' policies for autistic children. Part of it is because life is difficult for everyone and children who can't work are a liability, but the New Christian Church stresses the necessity of killing autistic children to a degree that often confuses outsiders.
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* DeathByDespair: [[spoiler:Robin's mother Marge withered away and died after being forced to abandon him in the desert, saying life had no meaning for her. His father worked himself to death over the loss of Marge, Robin, and their other son Gregory, who was killed by a fireworm.]]
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* EyesAlwaysAverted: Robin and Shadow rarely make eye contact, either with each other or with other people. Robin eventually learns from [[spoiler:Annette]] that this is a symptom of autism.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Robin doesn't even know Shadow's real name. She got her nickname from a fruit vendor in Hermosillo who said, "She is like a ''sombra'', that girl, to you."
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* AttemptedRape: A few days after Robin and Shadow meet, Robin leaves her alone at the campsite and comes back to find three men trying to rape her, even though she's about ten years old at the time. Robin, who's a teenager at this point, kills two of the men and chases the third off. He and Shadow have to leave the area after that.
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''Daystar and Shadow'' is a 1983 science fiction novel by James B. Johnson.
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''Daystar and Shadow'' is a 1983 1981 science fiction novel by James B. Johnson.
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* AmnesiacHero: Robin can remember virtually nothing before the age of about 12, except for hazy memories of his parents abandoning him in the desert for being "[[UsefulNotes/{{Autism}} artistic]]."
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* DomesticAbuse: Robin's father hits his mother for disobeying or arguing with him.
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* HatesBeingTouched: As a young child, Robin struggles to escape every time his mother picks him up. As adults, Shadow flinches from him and only touches him when necessary, such as when helping each other over rough terrain.
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* LeftForDead: Robin's father leaves him in the desert to be killed by fireworms.
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''Daystar and Shadow'' is a 1983 science fiction novel by James B. Johnson.
Robin and his partner Shadow are desert wanderers in the post-apocalyptic American Southwest. Despite their efforts to help locals, they are regarded with suspicion for Robin's connection to the monstrous fireworms and his ability to dowse for water, and most people know Robin only as Daystar.
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!!''Daystar and Shadow'' contains examples of:
* AfterTheEnd: A devastating event called the Holocaust happened about a thousand years ago. Now much of America is uninhabitable wasteland.
* AmnesiacHero: Robin can remember virtually nothing before the age of about 12, except for hazy memories of his parents abandoning him in the desert for being "[[UsefulNotes/{{Autism}} artistic]]."
* FluffyTamer: For reasons Robin doesn't understand, the fireworms won't hurt him and sometimes even protect him. Once a small fireworm presses against his leg and purrs like a cat.
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Robin and his partner Shadow are desert wanderers in the post-apocalyptic American Southwest. Despite their efforts to help locals, they are regarded with suspicion for Robin's connection to the monstrous fireworms and his ability to dowse for water, and most people know Robin only as Daystar.
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!!''Daystar and Shadow'' contains examples of:
* AfterTheEnd: A devastating event called the Holocaust happened about a thousand years ago. Now much of America is uninhabitable wasteland.
* AmnesiacHero: Robin can remember virtually nothing before the age of about 12, except for hazy memories of his parents abandoning him in the desert for being "[[UsefulNotes/{{Autism}} artistic]]."
* FluffyTamer: For reasons Robin doesn't understand, the fireworms won't hurt him and sometimes even protect him. Once a small fireworm presses against his leg and purrs like a cat.
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