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* MetaphoricallyTrue: The lighting master, Maximo, killed her. [[spoiler:Physically it was the callowhales but he ''destroyed'' most of the filming for what would've been her final work, and thus she killed what was left of her dream.]]

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* MetaphoricallyTrue: The lighting master, Maximo, killed her. [[spoiler:Physically it was the callowhales but he ''destroyed'' most of the filming for what would've been her final work, and thus she he killed what was left of her dream.]]



* MonsterWhale: The callowhales of Venus are ''big'' enough to be very dangerous, but... all they do is lie in the sea, apparently asleep. The capitalists, eager to sell callowmilk and colonize planets, say callowmilk as the salubrious result of an innocuous procedure. But Amandine, who grew up among the divers of Venus, thinks there's more to the whales than meets the eye...

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* MonsterWhale: The callowhales of Venus are ''big'' enough to be very dangerous, but... all they do is lie in the sea, apparently asleep. The capitalists, eager to sell callowmilk and colonize planets, say callowmilk as is the salubrious result of an innocuous procedure. But Amandine, who grew up among the divers of Venus, thinks there's more to the whales than meets the eye...



* {{Unobtanium}}: Callowmilk, which can be gotten ''only'' from the callowhales of Venus. It has a huge variety of uses, including use as an industrial lubricant, coal substitute, fertilizer, and building material, but its most common use is being ingested(either in liquid form or as an ingredient in something else). Without callowmilk, no human could survive out of Earth's atmosphere very long - it repels radiation and builds up bone density that would otherwise be lost.

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* {{Unobtanium}}: Callowmilk, which can be gotten ''only'' from the callowhales of Venus. It has a huge variety of uses, including use as an industrial lubricant, coal substitute, fertilizer, and building material, but its most common use is being ingested(either ingested (either in liquid form or as an ingredient in something else). Without callowmilk, no human could survive out of Earth's atmosphere very long - it repels radiation and builds up bone density that would otherwise be lost.
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* StandardSciFiHistory: Combined with AlternateHistory, this story is at Point One--- Exploration and Colonization of the Solar System--- with the planets of our system all occupied, and a few asteroids as well. Though interplanetary travel takes months, communication usually is swifter. [[spoiler: The end of the book hints that the first interplanetary war is gathering on the horizon.]]

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** Black-and-white silent films are still made in this day and age because Thomas Edison is hoarding the patents to film-making.

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** Black-and-white silent films are still made in this day and age because Thomas Edison is hoarding hoarded all the patents to film-making.film-making and his son continues the trade.



* BreakTheCutie: Poor Anchises starts off as a child who wants nothing more than to see a callowhale and innocently wishes for his family's happiness. By the time Severin finds him, he's the only person left in Adonis, walking in circles, blinking in and out of existence, and so incoherent that he screams when Severin hugs him. Things don't get much better from there, as [[spoiler:he's beat up by one of the film crew members when he tries to prevent the only footage of Severin's last document from being destroyed]]. He spends a lot of his life running around the galaxy after leaving his adopted father and, by the time he reaches his thirties, is severely withdrawn and tired.

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* BreakTheCutie: Poor Anchises starts off as a child who wants nothing more than to see a callowhale and innocently wishes for his family's happiness. By the time Severin finds him, he's the only person left in Adonis, walking in circles, blinking in and out of existence, and so incoherent that he screams when Severin hugs him. Things don't get much better from there, as [[spoiler:he's beat up by one of the film crew members when he tries to prevent the only footage of Severin's last document from being destroyed]]. He spends a lot of his life running around the galaxy after leaving his adopted father and, by the time he reaches his thirties, is severely withdrawn and tired. [[spoiler:And worse, this was ultimately ''his fault'' for touching a callowhale frond when he wasn't supposed to.]]



* DomesticAbuse: Penelope Edison is suppressed and denied the right to work by her husband.

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* DomesticAbuse: Penelope Edison is suppressed and denied the right to work by her husband.husband, Fred.



* DrivenToSuicide: Fredrich Edison was said to have killed himself near the end of the novel.



* ForWantOfANail: The destruction of Anchises' hometown came from [[spoiler:him touching the frond of a detached callowhale. It mutated his hand and the callowhales themselves mistook it as one of their own trapped within the city and thus ''it became decimiated'' in order to "save" him.]]

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* ForWantOfANail: The destruction of Anchises' hometown came from [[spoiler:him touching the frond of a detached callowhale. It mutated his hand and the callowhales themselves mistook it as one of their own trapped within the city and thus ''it became decimiated'' in order to "save" him. Even worse, one of Anchises' friends ''warned him'' not to do so. He should've listened.]]



* InSeriesNickname: Anchises had the nickname "Doctor Callow" growing up.



* MajorMinorCharacter: Penelope Edison is mostly a background character who [[spoiler:is also Severin's birth mother.]]



* MetaphoricallyTrue: The lighting master, Maximo, killed her. [[spoiler:Physically it was the callowhales but he ''destroyed'' most of the filming for what would've been her final work, and thus she killed what was left of her dream.]]
* MinorMajorCharacter: Penelope Edison is mostly a background character who [[spoiler:is also Severin's birth mother.]]



* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:Anchies inadvertedly caused the destruction of his hometown by touching a callow whale frond. The callowhales assumed ''he'' was one of their kin trapped and confused and thus, in an attempt to save him, destroyed the city and left him as its sole survivor.]]

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* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:Anchies inadvertedly caused the destruction of his hometown by touching a callow whale frond.frond (even though a friend of his told him not to). The callowhales assumed ''he'' was one of their kin trapped and confused and thus, in an attempt to save him, destroyed the city and left him as its sole survivor.]]



* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler:A sole callowhale got sick and his death spread out into different areas: destroyed a village in Pluto, the death wails were in Mars, and a single frond was touched by Anchises, leading to his hometown destroyed.]]



* UsedToBeASweetKid: While Severin isn't a bad person, she lost much of her childhood warmth and sweetness, along with her close relationship to her father, after [[spoiler:he told her he shot and killed someone]]. As an adult, she only is affectionate towards her boyfriend (and later Anchises) and is still angry towards her father.

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* UsedToBeASweetKid: While Severin isn't a bad person, she lost much of her childhood warmth and sweetness, along with her close relationship to her father, after [[spoiler:he told her he shot and killed someone]].someone (in order to protect someone else)]]. As an adult, she only is affectionate towards her boyfriend (and later Anchises) and is still angry towards her father.



* WouldHitAGirl: One of Severin's crew members attacked her on Adonis. [[spoiler:It was to try to stop her from swimming with a callow whale.]]

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* WouldHitAGirl: One of Severin's crew members members, Maximo, attacked her on Adonis. [[spoiler:It was to try to stop her from swimming with a callow whale.]]

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** The end of the book reveals that [[spoiler:one of Anchises's childhood friends actually told him not to touch the callow whale frond. Percy left that part out of his movie because he thought it was too on-the-nose.]]

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** The end of the book reveals that [[spoiler:one of Anchises's childhood friends actually told him not ''not'' to touch the callow whale frond. Percy left that part out of his movie because he thought it was too on-the-nose.]]


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* ForWantOfANail: The destruction of Anchises' hometown came from [[spoiler:him touching the frond of a detached callowhale. It mutated his hand and the callowhales themselves mistook it as one of their own trapped within the city and thus ''it became decimiated'' in order to "save" him.]]


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* MajorMinorCharacter: Penelope Edison is mostly a background character who [[spoiler:is also Severin's birth mother.]]


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* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:Anchies inadvertedly caused the destruction of his hometown by touching a callow whale frond. The callowhales assumed ''he'' was one of their kin trapped and confused and thus, in an attempt to save him, destroyed the city and left him as its sole survivor.]]
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* AdultFear: The transcripts of Percy trying to plan a movie to give himself closure over Severin's disappearance show just how much he misses her and wishes he'd done better caring for her.

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* RealityEnsues: Mary tries to treat [[spoiler:Thaddeus's]] murder like it was taking place in one of her Madame Mortimer movies, locking the doors and trying to suss out clues and motives. It ends abruptly when [[spoiler:Percy simply confesses and orders everyone to cover the crime up to avoid a scandal.]] Even though Mary's certain [[spoiler:Percy didn't do it]], there's nothing she can do.



* WouldHitAGirl: One of Severin's crew members attacked her on Adonis. [[spoiler:It was to try to stop her from swimming with a callow whale.]]

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* WouldHitAGirl: One of Severin's crew members attacked her on Adonis. [[spoiler:It was to try to stop her from swimming with a callow whale.]]]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: Mary tries to treat [[spoiler:Thaddeus's]] murder like it was taking place in one of her Madame Mortimer movies, locking the doors and trying to suss out clues and motives. It ends abruptly when [[spoiler:Percy simply confesses and orders everyone to cover the crime up to avoid a scandal.]] Even though Mary's certain [[spoiler:Percy didn't do it]], there's nothing she can do.
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** On Venus, Amandine refers to callowhales as "the cattle of the sun." She must know her ClassicalMythology-- in ''The Odyssey,'' Odysseus' crew members slaughtered the cattle of the sun, and the sun-god took their lives in revenge.

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** On Venus, Amandine refers to callowhales as "the cattle of the sun." She must know her ClassicalMythology-- Homer-- in ''The Odyssey,'' ''[[Literature/TheOdyssey The Odyssey,]]'' Odysseus' crew members slaughtered the cattle of the sun, and the sun-god took their lives in revenge.
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* MonsterWhale: The callowhales of Venus are ''big'' enough to be very dangerous, but... all they do is lie in the sea, apparently asleep. The capitalists, eager to sell callowmilk and colonize planets, say callowmilk as the salubrious result of an innocuous procedure. But Amandine, who grew up among the divers of Venus, thinks there's more to the whales than meets the eye...


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** On Venus, Amandine refers to callowhales as "the cattle of the sun." She must know her ClassicalMythology-- in ''The Odyssey,'' Odysseus' crew members slaughtered the cattle of the sun, and the sun-god took their lives in revenge.

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