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2 | "Orion: First Encounter" is a short children's book written by Kyle Nagle. It begins with a spacecraft, the [[TitleDrop Orion]] landing in a small bayou behind a suburb. Soon after it is discovered by two young students: Jake and Erin. The only thing is, they seem to know quite a bit about the spacecraft, and it seems to be made just for them. Things get even weirder when Erin's cat tells them they've been chosen to pilot the Orion. |
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4 | The next thing they know, they, along with Henry, a neighbor who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, have blasted off into space. Earth behind they run into junkers, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Space Pirates]] and [[AIIsACrapShoot killer robots.]] |
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6 | It is currently available on the [[http://www.amazon.com/Orion-First-Encounter-Kyle-Nagle-ebook/dp/B00KPFJFQA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1401661039&sr=8-1&keywords=Orion+First+Encounter Kindle]] and in paperback form. |
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8 | !!Provides examples of: |
9 | * AcePilot: Erin quickly becomes a master at the helm of the Orion. This is justified due to the Orion rewiring her and Jake's brain. |
10 | * AIIsACrapshoot: Played straight with the ship's AI, which responds to their impending death with a polite message. Possibly subverted with the Techno Droids. It's never made clear if they are AI gone wrong or if they were just programmed to boil people into oil. |
11 | * AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The ship reshapes itself to fit whomever is flying it. |
12 | * CoolShip: The Orion, which can travel interstellar distances in seconds, understand multidimensional physics and uses holographic boxing gloves and tiny bugs as weapons. |
13 | * MsExposition: Sam, the cat, falls under this. She spends most of the book explaining just how things work. Or at least, she tries to explain how things work. |
14 | * SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Mostly averted. Any time space is mentioned it's in thousands of miles or more. Played more straight with how many different aliens seem to run into Gee-Bob, though that was justified by the Orion's FTL system being "noisy." |
15 | * SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: The makers of the Orion. They can jump from one end of the galaxy to the other, rewire people's brains and have created a weapons that makes you dance. |
16 | * TranslatorMicrobes: Actual microbes in the form of the Yacker Virus that lets the crew understand alien languages. |
17 | * RecycledINSPACE!: This is discussed by the crew briefly. However there are space pirates, space junkers, space cows, and [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot space attack spider Santas]] |
18 | * RuleOfFunny: What the universe seems to run on. |
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