History Literature / Terra

* AcademicAthelete: Fthfth, one of the Lyceum's best students and also one of its best gshkth players.

* AscendedFanboy: Billy in ''Terra's World'' is a huge space opera fan, who resents that knowledge that there were actual aliens meant space opera became unfashionable. He finds himself on a journey to Fnrr.

* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Terra's is protein configuration 6. Although she thinks the protein configuration 6 the protein manipulators in Dskt make isn't anything like the protein configuration 6 in Mlml.

* TheAlternet: Fnrrn society has the Source, a planet-wide information network accessed through the tablets everyone carries. The scientist who invented gravity-manipulation published his work on the Source, so that no one group would have access to it.

* TheGreys: The Fnrrns fit the physical description, apart from being tall: Lppb is "a tall, thin figure with a large bald grey head, large shiny black eyes, and a lipless mouth, clad in a shimmering one peice garment. They don't do {{Alien Abduction}}s though, unless you count rescuing Terra.

'''Tropes found in this work include''':

* FutureFoodIsArtificial: The Fnrrns (except the G'grk) create food with "protein manipulators", and view "eating animals" with distaste.

* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: One of the things the other Fnrrns consider as marking the G'grk as hopelessly backward is that they believe in "invisible overlords".

* ProudScholarRace: The Fnrrns are this. They have a democratic government, but the people vote for the politicians who are most likely to listen to the scientists, since they're obviously the sensible ones. The exception is...

* AlienBlood: When Terra sees a dark blue gravsphere, her first thought is that it's the colour of Fnrrn blood.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Compositor Vstj is a rival to Lppb who disaproves of him bringing Terra to Fnrr, and is later rather detached and sarcastic when dealing with her. It becomes apparent by halfway through the book that he doesn't really bear her any animosity as such, and has his own problems. (This gets foreshadowed in Terra's play, where she carefully doesn't write the rival to Fnnr's greatest scientist as a villain, and the student playing him seems to be doing an impression of Vstj.)

* TheGreys: The Fnrrns fit the physical description, apart from being tall: Lrr is "a tall, thin figure with a large bald grey head, large shiny black eyes, and a lipless mouth, clad in a shimmering one peice garment. They don't do {{Alien Abduction}}s though, unless you count rescuing Terra.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: The second chapter is Lrr's perspective on planet Rrth. His main conclusion about the dominant life form is that [[HumansAreBastards Ymns Are Bastards]].

* ProudWarriorRace: The G'grk, a society on Fnrr that still believes in honour and glorious battle and a manifest destiny to conquer pretty much anywhere they want. Only they can't, because the Scholar Race areas of Fnrr [[KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect have all the cool gadgets]].

''Terra'' is a science fiction novel by Music/MitchBenn, which tells the story of a young human girl growing up on the planet Fnrr, where she was taken when a Fnrrn scientist believed her (constantly arguing) parents had abandoned her. It was published in July 2013.

* TranslationConvention: Spoken Fnrrn is represented as English in italics with a dash at the start rather than in quotation marks ([[CaptainObvious which represents spoken English]]).

* TheAlternet: Fnrrn society has the Source, a planet-wide information network. The scientist who invented gravity-manipulation published his work on the Source, so that no one group would have access to it.

* TheAlternet: Fnrrn society has the Source.

* ParentalSubstitute: Lbbp is this to Terra, raising her after he takes her back to Fnrrn. He doesn't consider himself her father though, and the one

* NoPronunciationGuide: The Fnrrn language has no vowels. Lbbp finds Earth language just has hard to parse, and chooses the name "Terra" for the human child because it can be pronounced relatively easily as "T'rr".

* ParentalSubstitute: Lbbp is this to Terra, raising her after he takes her back to Fnrrn.

* TranslationConvention: Spoken Fnrrn is represented as English in italics with a dash at the start rather than in quotation marks ([[CaptainObvious which represents spoken English]]).

* TheGreys: The Fnrrns fit the physical description exactly: Lrr is "a tall, thin figure with a large bald grey head, large shiny black eyes, and a lipless mouth, clad in a shimmering one peice garment. They don't do AlienAbductions though, unless you count rescuing Terra.

* TheGreys: The Fnrrns fit the physical description exactly: Lrr is "a tall, thin figure with a large bald grey head, large shiny black eyes, and a lipless mouth, clad in a shimmering one peice garment. They don't do AlienAbductations though, unless you count rescuing Terra.

* TheGreys: The Fnrrns fit the description exactly.

* ParentalSubstitute: Lbbp is this to Terra.

* StrangerInAStrangeSchool: Terra was "raised on an alien planet and is about to go to school for the very first time."

* Translation convention: Spoken Fnrrn is represented as English in italics with a dash at the start rather than in quotation marks ([[CaptainObvious which represents spoken English]]).

* ProudWarriorRace: The G'grk, a society on Fnrr that still believes in honour and glorious battle and a manifest destiny to conquer pretty much anywhere they want. Only they can't, because the Scholar Race areas of Fnrrn have all the cool gadgets.
* PunctuationShaker: In addition to the lack of vowels in the Fnrnn language, there are also a lot of apostrophes.

* ProudWarriorRace: The G'grk, a society on Fnrr that still believes in honour and glorious battle and a manifest destiny to conquer pretty much anywhere they want.

''Terra'' is a science fiction novel by Music/MitchBenn, which tells the story of a young human girl growing up on the planet Fnrr, where she was taken when a Fnrrn scientist believed her parents had abandoned her. It was published in July 2013.

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: DefiedTrope. Someone suggests this to Mrs Bradbury and turns out to be completely wrong.

* TheKlutz: Terra's friend Pkpk, who can be relied upon to lose control of his grav-bubble, drop his computer slate, and get tongue-tied when asked a question.

-->Some of them came to the conclusion that the Bradburys must like it that way. Arguing all the time was the thing that made them happy. But it didn't seem to make them happy, at all.

* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: One of the things the other Fnrrn consider as marking the G'grk as hopelessly backward is that they believe in "invisible overlords".

* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: One of the things the othe Fnrr'n consider as marking the G'grk as hopelessly backward is that they believe in "invisible overlords".

Not to be confused with the [[Webcomic/{{Terra}} webcomic]] of the same name.