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-->Life is beautiful and life is stupid.
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* TheFederation: The Great Octave.
* UsefulNotes/FermiParadox: Discussed in the first few pages, it turns out there's life all over the place and we just haven't been contacted yet.
* UsefulNotes/FermiParadox: Discussed in the first few pages, it turns out there's life all over the place and we just haven't been contacted yet.
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* UsefulNotes/FermiParadox: Discussed in the first few pages, it turns out there's life all over the place and we just haven't been contacted yet.
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* KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect: Explicitly called out early in book as a reason why humans would never run into space horrors. However, as Goguenar Gorecanon proved, ''every'' culture has the uncool kid who just wants to get off the planet as fast as possible.
** Olabil the Friendless, last of the Inaki, who survived the cataclysm that destroyed his home planet and race because he was skipping school that day.
** Olabil the Friendless, last of the Inaki, who survived the cataclysm that destroyed his home planet and race because he was skipping school that day.
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* KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect: Explicitly called out early in book as a reason why humans would never run into space horrors. However, as Goguenar Gorecanon proved, proves, ''every'' culture has the uncool kid who just wants to get off the planet as fast as possible.
**possible. Olabil the Friendless, last of the Inaki, who survived the cataclysm that destroyed his home planet and race because he was skipping school that day.
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: Towards the end of the qualifying rounds, Decibel and Oort are respectively offered the votes needed to survive in exchange for India, and for them and their immediate family to be rescued from annihilation if they drop out of the contest. [[spoiler:Both refuse, with Decibel noting it was very poor taste to offer a person whose ancestors directly suffered British oppression salvation in exchange for more of it, and Oort that he didn't want to be that kind of person. And a good thing, too, because these are ''not'' real offers but a secret extra qualifying round for new species. Failure means instant death.]]
** Oort's cat, Capo, fails ''spectacularly'' by eagerly accepting the alien's fake offer when they mistake her for a backup singer.
** Oort's cat, Capo, fails ''spectacularly'' by eagerly accepting the alien's fake offer when they mistake her for a backup singer.
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: Towards the end of the qualifying rounds, Decibel and Oort are respectively offered the votes needed to survive in exchange for India, and for them and their immediate family to be rescued from annihilation if they drop out of the contest. [[spoiler:Both refuse, with Decibel noting it was very poor taste to offer a person whose ancestors directly suffered British oppression salvation in exchange for more of it, and Oort that he didn't want to be that kind of person. And a good thing, too, because these are ''not'' real offers but a secret extra qualifying round for new species. Failure means instant death.]]
**]] Oort's cat, Capo, fails ''spectacularly'' by eagerly accepting the alien's fake offer when they mistake her for a backup singer.
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* TalkingAnimal: This is what the Sentience Wars boil down to. Being a space faring race doesn't necessarily mean you're sentient, according to other species. The races of The Great Octave mostly sort of believe you can have a conversation with an non-sentient species, and to avoid warlike, sociopathic species making life miserable for everyone, it was decided that they compete in the Galactic Grand Prix.
** More literally, the roadrunner makes this point by imbuing Oort's cat (Capo) with the ability to speak. Her POV on this is essentially that she could always talk, but the monkeys can now finally understand her.
* TemporalParadox: The Keshet, being natural time travelers, power non-wormhole space travel by placing people who are a cause of / will cause a time paradox in special chambers (not unlike a comfy hotel room) to harness the energy of the paradox. One known example is a man being his own grandfather, with him and his grandmother during the... ''event'' causing said paradox being frozen in said room.
** By the time Decibel and Oort have to perform, [[spoiler:their Keshet friend brings their dead bandmate Mira from the past to the future to play and this helps them pass the Grand Prix.]] Her existence, while a paradox and incredibly dangerous, is stated to not be a problem as long as she spends most of her time on a (truly massive) spaceship, which her significant other can be nearby.
** More literally, the roadrunner makes this point by imbuing Oort's cat (Capo) with the ability to speak. Her POV on this is essentially that she could always talk, but the monkeys can now finally understand her.
* TemporalParadox: The Keshet, being natural time travelers, power non-wormhole space travel by placing people who are a cause of / will cause a time paradox in special chambers (not unlike a comfy hotel room) to harness the energy of the paradox. One known example is a man being his own grandfather, with him and his grandmother during the... ''event'' causing said paradox being frozen in said room.
** By the time Decibel and Oort have to perform, [[spoiler:their Keshet friend brings their dead bandmate Mira from the past to the future to play and this helps them pass the Grand Prix.]] Her existence, while a paradox and incredibly dangerous, is stated to not be a problem as long as she spends most of her time on a (truly massive) spaceship, which her significant other can be nearby.
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* TalkingAnimal: This is what the Sentience Wars boil down to. Being a space faring spacefaring race doesn't necessarily mean you're sentient, according to other species. The races of The the Great Octave mostly sort of believe you can have a conversation with an non-sentient species, and to avoid warlike, sociopathic species making life miserable for everyone, it was decided that they compete in the Galactic Grand Prix.
**Prix. More literally, the roadrunner makes this point by imbuing Oort's cat (Capo) with the ability to speak. Her POV on this is essentially that she could always talk, but the monkeys can now finally understand her.
* TemporalParadox: The Keshet, being natural time travelers, power non-wormhole space travel by placing people who are a causeof / will of/will cause a time paradox in special chambers (not unlike a comfy hotel room) to harness the energy of the paradox. One known example is a man being his own grandfather, with him and his grandmother during the... ''event'' causing said paradox being frozen in said room.
**room. By the time Decibel and Oort have to perform, [[spoiler:their Keshet friend brings their dead bandmate Mira from the past to the future to play and this helps them pass the Grand Prix.]] Her existence, while a paradox and incredibly dangerous, is stated to not be a problem as long as she spends most of her time on a (truly massive) spaceship, which her significant other can be nearby.
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* TemporalParadox: The Keshet, being natural time travelers, power non-wormhole space travel by placing people who are a cause
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