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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: In the fourth book, Sparta and Blake are separated, and Sparta all but burns her bridges with the Space Board, then gets hooked on drugs, murders a bunch of people, attempts to sabotage a Space Board mission, and ultimately suffers a nervous breakdown. Paul Preuss himself conceded that he feared many readers would abandon the series after reading it.
* TrueArtIsAngsty: The fourth book features Sparta breaking her ties with the Space Board, getting hooked on drugs, killing a bunch of people, attempting to sabotage a Space Board operation, and suffering a nervous breakdown and temporarily losing her enhanced vision. Preuss has justified all this, saying that character development requires confronting despair and figuring out a way past it.
* TrueArtIsAngsty: The fourth book features Sparta breaking her ties with the Space Board, getting hooked on drugs, killing a bunch of people, attempting to sabotage a Space Board operation, and suffering a nervous breakdown and temporarily losing her enhanced vision. Preuss has justified all this, saying that character development requires confronting despair and figuring out a way past it.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: In the fourth book, Sparta and Blake are separated, and Sparta all but burns her bridges with the Space Board, then gets hooked on drugs, murders a bunch of people, attempts to sabotage a Space Board mission, and ultimately suffers a nervous breakdown. Paul Preuss himself conceded that he feared many readers would abandon the series after reading it.
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* {{Fanservice}}: The series has nude scenes and sex scenes throughout, but the fifth book really takes the cake; Towards the end, Sparta abandons her clothes and spends the rest of the book swimming nude around the world-ship.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: In the fourth book, Sparta and Blake are separated, and Sparta all but burns her bridges with the Space Board, then gets hooked on drugs, murders a bunch of people, attempts to sabotage a Space Board mission, and ultimately suffers a nervous breakdown. Paul Preuss himself conceded that he feared many readers would abandon the series after reading it.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: In the fourth book, Sparta and Blake are separated, and Sparta all but burns her bridges with the Space Board, then gets hooked on drugs, murders a bunch of people, attempts to sabotage a Space Board mission, and ultimately suffers a nervous breakdown. Paul Preuss himself conceded that he feared many readers would abandon the series after reading it.
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* TearJerker: Kara Antreen's fate at the end of the first book; [[spoiler:She ends up with her memories thoroughly wiped by Sparta]].
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* TearJerker: Kara Antreen's fate at the end of the first book; [[spoiler:She ends up with her memories thoroughly wiped by Sparta]].
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* TearJerker: Kara Antreen's fate at TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
** Sparta and Blake's hunt for theend of the first book; [[spoiler:She Free Spirit ends abruptly in the fourth book, and then the series morphs into a CosmicHorrorStory. Most fans seem to agree that the Free Spirit plot was much more interesting.
** Each book explores a different planet, its unique colonization challenges, and the political situations that emerge from importing humans there (like Mars' communism, or Ganymede's hotbeds of separatism, or Venus' extreme capitalism.) None of these subplots are ever followed upwith her memories thoroughly wiped by Sparta]].in subsequent books.
** Sparta and Blake's hunt for the
** Each book explores a different planet, its unique colonization challenges, and the political situations that emerge from importing humans there (like Mars' communism, or Ganymede's hotbeds of separatism, or Venus' extreme capitalism.) None of these subplots are ever followed up
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** The first three books invest a great deal of time building up the Free Spirit into a major threat... [[spoiler:and then Sparta kills off their leaders ''and'' the Orange Man halfway through the fourth book]].
** In the second book, Blake infiltrates the Free Spirit, and meets several of its newest recruits and learns of their backgrounds. Only one of those new recruits appears later.
** The first three books invest a great deal of time building up the Free Spirit into a major threat... [[spoiler:and then Sparta kills off their leaders ''and'' the Orange Man halfway through the fourth book]].
** In the second book, Blake infiltrates the Free Spirit, and meets several of its newest recruits and learns of their backgrounds. Only one of those new recruits appears later.
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: The fourth book features Sparta breaking her ties with the Space Board, getting hooked on drugs, killing a bunch of people, attempting to sabotage a Space Board operation, and suffering a nervous breakdown and temporarily losing her enhanced vision. Preuss has justified all this, saying that character development requires confronting despair and figuring out a way past it.
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* UnfortunateImplications: The Free Spirit's foot soldiers are implied to be made up almost entirely by people of color and Russians, while most of the heroic characters are white.
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* NightmareFuel: The super-extendable needles can be this if you're AfraidOfNeedles.
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* UnfortunateImplications: Quite a few, sadly.
** Nearly every Russian character in the series is portrayed as corrupt, or at the very least, a JerkAss. Special mention goes to Sharansky, a Space Board officer who goes out of her way to make Blake's job on Mars harder and nearly gets him killed.
** Sondra Sylvester, a lesbian, is portrayed as an IceQueen. Her companion Nancybeth is also portrayed as a promiscuous airhead.
** Khalid Sayeed is engaged to a pre-teen girl. He's also stated to have bullied a female non-Muslim classmate during his days in the [=SPARTA=] program for religious reasons. These are, of course, stereotypes associated with Muslims.
** Nearly every Russian character in the series is portrayed as corrupt, or at the very least, a JerkAss. Special mention goes to Sharansky, a Space Board officer who goes out of her way to make Blake's job on Mars harder and nearly gets him killed.
** Sondra Sylvester, a lesbian, is portrayed as an IceQueen. Her companion Nancybeth is also portrayed as a promiscuous airhead.
** Khalid Sayeed is engaged to a pre-teen girl. He's also stated to have bullied a female non-Muslim classmate during his days in the [=SPARTA=] program for religious reasons. These are, of course, stereotypes associated with Muslims.
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* UnfortunateImplications: Quite a few, sadly.
** Nearly every Russian character inThe Free Spirit's foot soldiers are implied to be made up almost entirely by people of color and Russians, while most of the series is portrayed as corrupt, or at the very least, a JerkAss. Special mention goes to Sharansky, a Space Board officer who goes out of her way to make Blake's job on Mars harder and nearly gets him killed.
** Sondra Sylvester, a lesbian, is portrayed as an IceQueen. Her companion Nancybeth is also portrayed as a promiscuous airhead.
** Khalid Sayeed is engaged to a pre-teen girl. He's also stated to have bullied a female non-Muslim classmate during his days in the [=SPARTA=] program for religious reasons. These are, of course, stereotypes associated with Muslims.heroic characters are white.
** Nearly every Russian character in
** Sondra Sylvester, a lesbian, is portrayed as an IceQueen. Her companion Nancybeth is also portrayed as a promiscuous airhead.
** Khalid Sayeed is engaged to a pre-teen girl. He's also stated to have bullied a female non-Muslim classmate during his days in the [=SPARTA=] program for religious reasons. These are, of course, stereotypes associated with Muslims.
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* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Ari Nagy, Sparta's mother, willingly handed her own daughter over to the Free Spirit cult, and unlike her husband Jozsef, she's not sorry. On top of that, she let her daughter believe that the Free Spirit had killed her and Jozsef, resulting in Sparta nearly throwing her life away on a poorly-planned vendetta]].
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* BizarroEpisode: The sixth and final book deviates heavily from the rest of the series, being mostly told from a first-person perspective, and featuring aliens, time travel, and alternate universes.
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** Khalid Sayeed is ridiculously dedicated to his Islamic beliefs, to the point of having a special astrolabe so that he can always pray in the direction of Mecca, ''even on Mars''. He also happens to be engaged to a pre-teen girl.
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** Khalid Sayeed is ridiculously dedicated to his Islamic beliefs, to the point of having a special astrolabe so that he can always pray in the direction of Mecca, ''even on Mars''. He also happens to be engaged to a pre-teen girl.girl. He's also stated to have bullied a female non-Muslim classmate during his days in the [=SPARTA=] program for religious reasons. These are, of course, stereotypes associated with Muslims.
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: The fourth book features Sparta breaking her ties with the Space Board, getting hooked on drugs, killing a bunch of people, attempting to sabotage a Space Board operation, and suffering a nervous breakdown and temporarily losing her enhanced vision. Preuss has justified all this, saying that character development requires confronting despair and figuring out a way past it.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: In the fourth book, Sparta and Blake are separated, and Sparta all but burns her bridges with the Space Board, then gets hooked on drugs, murders a bunch of people, attempts to sabotage a Space Board mission, and ultimately suffers a nervous breakdown. Paul Preuss himself conceded that he feared many readers would abandon the series after reading it.
* {{Fanservice}}: The series has nude scenes and sex scenes throughout, but the fifth book really takes the cake; Towards the end, Sparta abandons her clothes and spends the rest of the book swimming nude around the world-ship.
* {{Fanservice}}: The series has nude scenes and sex scenes throughout, but the fifth book really takes the cake; Towards the end, Sparta abandons her clothes and spends the rest of the book swimming nude around the world-ship.
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** Khalid Sayid is ridiculously dedicated to his Islamic beliefs, to the point of having a special astrolabe so that he can always pray in the direction of Mecca, ''even on Mars''. He also happens to be engaged to a pre-teen girl.
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** Khalid Sayid Sayeed is ridiculously dedicated to his Islamic beliefs, to the point of having a special astrolabe so that he can always pray in the direction of Mecca, ''even on Mars''. He also happens to be engaged to a pre-teen girl.
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* HoYay: The second book opens with Sparta receiving a massage from another woman.
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* ParanoiaFuel: [[spoiler:Salamander can give people false memories]]...
* StrangledByTheRedString: Sparta and Blake's relationship is more told than shown, and relies heavily upon the notion that constantly rescuing someone inevitably results in them falling in love with you.
* StrangledByTheRedString: Sparta and Blake's relationship is more told than shown, and relies heavily upon the notion that constantly rescuing someone inevitably results in them falling in love with you.
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* NightmareFuel: The super-extendable needles can be this if you're [[AfraidOfNeedles]].
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* HoYay: The second book opens with Sparta receiving a massage from another woman.
* NightmareFuel: The super-extendable needles can be this if you're [[AfraidOfNeedles]].
* TearJerker: Kara Antreen's fate at the end of the first book; [[spoiler:She ends up with her memories thoroughly wiped by Sparta]].
* UnfortunateImplications: Quite a few, sadly.
**Nearly every Russian character in the series is portrayed as corrupt, or at the very least, a JerkAss. Special mention goes to Sharansky, a Space Board officer who goes out of her way to make Blake's job on Mars harder and nearly gets him killed.
** Sondra Sylvester, a lesbian, is portrayed as an IceQueen. Her companion Nancybeth is also portrayed as a promiscuous airhead.
** Khalid Sayid is ridiculously dedicated to his Islamic beliefs, to the point of having a special astrolabe so that he can always pray in the direction of Mecca, ''even on Mars''. He also happens to be engaged to a pre-teen girl.
* NightmareFuel: The super-extendable needles can be this if you're [[AfraidOfNeedles]].
* TearJerker: Kara Antreen's fate at the end of the first book; [[spoiler:She ends up with her memories thoroughly wiped by Sparta]].
* UnfortunateImplications: Quite a few, sadly.
**Nearly every Russian character in the series is portrayed as corrupt, or at the very least, a JerkAss. Special mention goes to Sharansky, a Space Board officer who goes out of her way to make Blake's job on Mars harder and nearly gets him killed.
** Sondra Sylvester, a lesbian, is portrayed as an IceQueen. Her companion Nancybeth is also portrayed as a promiscuous airhead.
** Khalid Sayid is ridiculously dedicated to his Islamic beliefs, to the point of having a special astrolabe so that he can always pray in the direction of Mecca, ''even on Mars''. He also happens to be engaged to a pre-teen girl.
