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* TheMole: [[spoiler:Joseph, an autistic man whose parents founded the commune, works for [=TenCat Corp=], where he tries to find out which people are going to get the implant so he can warn them and help them escape.]]
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* ReverseMole: [[spoiler:Joseph, an autistic man whose parents founded the commune, works for [=TenCat Corp=], where he tries to find out which people are going to get the implant so he can warn them and help them escape.]]
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I guess the release date is more important than the one in the copyright.
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''The Place Inside the Storm'' is a 2018 science fiction novel by Bradley W. Wright.
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''The Place Inside the Storm'' is a 2018 2019 science fiction novel by Bradley W. Wright.
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* UrbanSegregation: UsefulNotes/LosAngeles has two kinds of neighborhoods: the wealthy ones owned by the corporations, and the run-down, lawless ones inhabited by homeless people, refugees, and outlaws.
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* MegaCorp: The world is run by these.
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* TrackingChip: Most people have biosensors implanted in their wrists that serve as ID cards. Tara keeps hers covered to avoid detection, and it ends up being destroyed when she injures herself.
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* GoodOldWays: Tara, Loki, and Xel spend four days staying with a family of [[Creator/HenryDavidThoreau Thoreauvians]] who live mostly off the land, without modern conveniences like electricity. They're the happiest and among the kindest of the people the protagonists meet, and don't miss technology at all.
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* OverTheShoulderCarry: The Thoreauvians' father carries Loki this way when he's unconscious from a seizure.
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* DisposableVagrant: The brain implant was originally tested on homeless people. Loki may have been one, for all he knows.
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* HeavySleeper: Tara's father falls asleep at his desk and is very hard to wake up. [[spoiler:When Tara sneaks back into the apartment, she's able to get the implant's firmware code from his glasses, using his fingerprints to access it, without waking him up.]]
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* {{Hologram}}: An abandoned government base is built into the side of a mountain, with holographic rock covering the opening. [[spoiler:It's now home to the autistic commune.]]
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* SensoryOverload: At school, Tara was frequently overwhelmed by all the lights, sounds, and smells, which distracted her to the point where she struggled in school. Away from all that, she finds that she can think much more clearly.
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* SingleTear: Tara sheds one when [[spoiler:she sees her father for the last time]].
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* HoldingHands: Tara holds Loki's hand while he's in a medically induced coma.
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* ShowerOfAngst: After the protagonists arrive at [[spoiler:the autistic commune]], Tara spends some time curled up and crying in the shower.
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* {{Blackmail}}: Xel was given to the Rivers as a gift from [=TenCat=] Corp, but what they don't know is that the exchange wasn't licit. The corporation threatens to turn Tara's parents in if they don't consent for her to receive the implant.
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* OnlyFriend: Tara's one friend in [=PacNW=] was Rosie, who walked up to her on the playground in fourth grade and asked if she wanted to help garden.
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* ReverseMole: [[spoiler:Joseph, an autistic man whose parents founded the commune, works for [=TenCat Corp=], where he tries to find out which people are going to get the implant so he can warn them and help them escape.]]
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* EyesAlwaysAverted: Tara finds eye contact weird and uncomfortably intimate. When Dr. Gutierrez tries to force it on her, she flinches and freezes up.
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* EyesAlwaysAverted: Tara finds eye contact weird and uncomfortably intimate. When Dr. Gutierrez tries to force it on her, she flinches and freezes up. [[spoiler:Later she reaches a mostly-autistic commune, where it's considered rude to make eye contact with people you don't know well.]]
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* PickyEater: Judith, [[spoiler:one of the inhabitants of the autistic commune]], eats exclusively peanut butter and jam sandwiches. She has to take vitamins to stay healthy.
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* CowerPower: One little girl starts to pet Xel, but when he tries to talk to her, she hides behind her mother's skirt.
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* ItRunsInTheFamily: Tara's younger sister Zoie is the only normal Rivers. Her parents are both eccentric, and it's implied that she inherited her autism from her father.
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In the year 2038, 14-year-old Tara Rivers is diagnosed with autism. Her parents are blackmailed into consenting for her to get a brain implant to make her more social and submissive. To avoid this fate, she [[TheRunaway runs away]] with her robot cat, Xel, traveling towards her grandmother's home in [=PacNW=], where she hopes she will be safe. Along the way she meets Loki, a boy with a brain implant that causes seizures and a limp, whom she brings along in the hopes that the doctors in [=PacNW=] will be able to remove it.
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In the year 2038, 14-year-old Tara Rivers is diagnosed with autism. Her parents are blackmailed into consenting for her to get a brain implant to make her more social docile and submissive.socially oriented. To avoid this fate, she [[TheRunaway runs away]] with her robot cat, Xel, traveling towards her grandmother's home in [=PacNW=], where she hopes she will be safe. Along the way she meets Loki, a boy with a brain implant that causes seizures and a limp, whom she brings along in the hopes that the doctors in [=PacNW=] will be able to remove it.
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* AnimalJingoism: [[spoiler:Rosie]]'s BigFriendlyDog Rufus is not a fan of Xel. He keeps whining and whimpering and looking at his owner for permission to attack.
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* HatesBeingTouched: Tara normally recoils from physical contact, especially from a stranger, but she finds that she doesn't mind touching Loki.
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* WolverineClaws: Xel was designed without claws, but at the garage he's outfitted with steel ones so he can better defend Tara.
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In the year 2038, 14-year-old Tara Rivers is diagnosed with autism. Her parents are blackmailed into consenting for her to get a brain implant to make her more social and submissive. To avoid this fate, she [[TheRunaway runs away]] with her robot cat, Xel, traveling towards her grandmother's home in [=PacNW=], where she hopes she will be safe. Along the way she meets Loki, a boy with a brain implant that causes seizures and a limp, who comes with her whom she brings along in the hopes that the doctors in [=PacNW=] will be able to remove it.
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* NamesGivenToComputers: The rivers' [[SmartHouse home computer]] is named Ava.
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* NamesGivenToComputers: The rivers' Rivers' [[SmartHouse home computer]] is named Ava.
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* NamesGivenToComputers: The rivers' [[SmartHouse home computer]] is named Ava.
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* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Loki and his ParentalSubstitute Aeon live in a permanent refugee camp in the sewers. It was founded during the droughts of TheNewTens and expanded during subsequent disasters.
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* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Loki and his ParentalSubstitute Aeon live in a permanent refugee camp in an abandoned parking garage connected to the sewers. It was founded during sewer system. Inhabitants go into the droughts of TheNewTens sewers to scavenge, which are big enough for them to stand upright, and expanded during subsequent disasters.where they can make use of catwalks.
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In the year 2038, 14-year-old Tara Rivers is diagnosed with autism. Her parents are strong-armed into consenting for her to get a brain implant to make her more social and submissive. To avoid this fate, she [[TheRunaway runs away]] with her robot cat, Xel, traveling towards her old home in [=PacNW=], where she hopes she will be safe.
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In the year 2038, 14-year-old Tara Rivers is diagnosed with autism. Her parents are strong-armed blackmailed into consenting for her to get a brain implant to make her more social and submissive. To avoid this fate, she [[TheRunaway runs away]] with her robot cat, Xel, traveling towards her old grandmother's home in [=PacNW=], where she hopes she will be safe.safe. Along the way she meets Loki, a boy with a brain implant that causes seizures and a limp, who comes with her in the hopes that the doctors in [=PacNW=] will be able to remove it.
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* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Loki and his ParentalSubstitute Aeon live in a permanent refugee camp in the sewers. It was founded during the droughts of TheNewTens and expanded during subsequent disasters.
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* IdentityAmnesia: Loki remembers very little of his pre-implant life, including his real name.
* LeftForDead: When it became apparent that their implants weren't working, Loki and his sister were dumped on an abandoned street to be eaten by dogs. Aeon took them in and nursed Loki back to health, but his sister didn't make it and was buried in the sewer.
* LeftForDead: When it became apparent that their implants weren't working, Loki and his sister were dumped on an abandoned street to be eaten by dogs. Aeon took them in and nursed Loki back to health, but his sister didn't make it and was buried in the sewer.
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* SuperSenses: Xel has superior hearing and can see infrared.
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* RobotDog: Tara sees some of these in a thrift store. They're outdated models, ancestors of Xel.
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* HeadsUpDisplay: Everyone has glasses with these, allowing them to watch movies, play video games, and browse the internet with ease, but also causing them to get bombarded with ads everywhere they go.
* OrganicTechnology: Tara's bed is on a platform raised from the floor with bacterial carbon frame construction.
* OrganicTechnology: Tara's bed is on a platform raised from the floor with bacterial carbon frame construction.
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In the year 2038, 14-year-old Tara Rivers is diagnosed with autism. Her parents are strong-armed into consenting for her to get a brain implant to make her more social and submissive. To avoid this fate, she [[TheRunaway runs away away]] with her robot cat, Xel, traveling towards her old home in [=PacNW=], where she hopes she will be safe.
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* AirVentPassageway: How Tara escapes from the psychologist's office.
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* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Unbeknownst to Tara, the robot cats have safeguards designed to prevent this from happening. When she changed some of Xel's firmware to fix a bug in the latest update, she unwittingly removed the safeguards, meaning that Xel will have to be factory reset when Tara is given the brain implant.
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* RobotBuddy: Xel is programmed to behave almost exactly like a real cat, except that he can talk.
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''The Place Inside the Storm'' is a 2018 science fiction novel by Bradley W. Wright.
In the year 2038, 14-year-old Tara Rivers is diagnosed with autism. Her parents are strong-armed into consenting for her to get a brain implant to make her more social and submissive. To avoid this fate, she runs away with her robot cat, Xel, traveling towards her old home in [=PacNW=], where she hopes she will be safe.
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!!''The Place Inside the Storm'' contains examples of:
* AutomatedAutomobiles: Although manual cars are still found in [=PacNW=], they've been banned years ago in [=CoastSW=].
* EyesAlwaysAverted: Tara finds eye contact weird and uncomfortably intimate. When Dr. Gutierrez tries to force it on her, she flinches and freezes up.
* FutureFoodIsArtificial: When Tara was younger, her dad occasionally cooked real food, but now her family almost exclusively eats instafood except when they eat out. She doesn't like the taste at all.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: The default intercom passcode is 9999, and people rarely bother to change it, allowing Tara to eavesdrop on different rooms in the psychiatrist's office.
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In the year 2038, 14-year-old Tara Rivers is diagnosed with autism. Her parents are strong-armed into consenting for her to get a brain implant to make her more social and submissive. To avoid this fate, she runs away with her robot cat, Xel, traveling towards her old home in [=PacNW=], where she hopes she will be safe.
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!!''The Place Inside the Storm'' contains examples of:
* AutomatedAutomobiles: Although manual cars are still found in [=PacNW=], they've been banned years ago in [=CoastSW=].
* EyesAlwaysAverted: Tara finds eye contact weird and uncomfortably intimate. When Dr. Gutierrez tries to force it on her, she flinches and freezes up.
* FutureFoodIsArtificial: When Tara was younger, her dad occasionally cooked real food, but now her family almost exclusively eats instafood except when they eat out. She doesn't like the taste at all.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: The default intercom passcode is 9999, and people rarely bother to change it, allowing Tara to eavesdrop on different rooms in the psychiatrist's office.
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