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''The Madness Season'' is a novel by Creator/CeliaSFriedman which blends ScienceFiction with monster mythology.
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''The Madness Season'' is a ScienceFantasy novel by Creator/CeliaSFriedman which blends ScienceFiction with monster mythology.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Two halves of the cover art by Michael Whelan. The part with Daetrin and blue star goes on the front, and one with the Tyr and a red Sun goes to back, [[http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/4a/MDNSSS190.jpg like so]].]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Two halves of the cover art by Michael Whelan. The part with Daetrin and blue star goes on the front, and one with the Tyr and a red Sun goes to back, [[http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/4a/MDNSSS190.jpg like so]].]]
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* YouAreNumberSix: Daetrin's full name is Daetrin Ungashak To-Alym Haal. It is not a true name but simply a Tyr numerical designation which every human on Earth must have.
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* YouAreNumberSix: Daetrin's full name is Daetrin Ungashak To-Alym Haal. It is not a true name but simply a Tyr numerical designation which every human on Earth must have.have.
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* BizarreAlienReproduction: The Tyr reproductive cycle is based on their home planet's roughly century-long highly eliptical orbit. [[spoiler:At the planet's closest approach to their sun, the Raayat-Tyr, which effectively act as drones, enter a state of madness and enter the Tyr hive where they fight each other for the chance to reach the queen's chamber. If a Raayat mates with the queen, he becomes a new Kuol with his own Honn. If he kills her, though, he transforms into the new queen.]]
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* BizarreAlienReproduction: The Tyr reproductive cycle is based on their home planet's roughly century-long highly eliptical orbit. [[spoiler:At the planet's closest approach to their sun, the Raayat-Tyr, which effectively act as drones, enter a state of madness and enter the Tyr hive where they fight each other for the chance to reach the queen's chamber. If a Raayat mates with the queen, he becomes a new Kuol with his own Honn. If he [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt kills her, though, he transforms into the new queen.queen]].]]
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* HiveMind: The Tyr is a superorganism with a shared conciousness.
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* HiddenPurposeTest: Tekk children undergo a ritual calling the Blooding -- a RiteOfPassage into adulthood to demonstrate that they possess the mental fortitude to go among their Tyr overlords. The real substance of the ceremony has nothing to do the the Tyr and everything to do with their super-predatory Hraas bodyguards, who kill some of the children, but those they spare they will leave alone. This is essential, because fully-fledged Tekk work in places which the Hraas patrol.
* HiveMind: The Tyr is a superorganism with a sharedconciousness.consciousness.
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* LaResistance: [[spoiler:The Tekk]] are a very, very deep-cover resistance cell, playing a long-game against the Tyr spanning generations.
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* PenalColony: Yuang Colony, the place to which Daetrin is sentenced, is a prison for humans whose crime is being clever.
