Inertial Damping: Spoofed in "Backstage Lensmen":.Lovecraft takeoff "The Horror Out of Time" starts off as apparently a typical Lovecraftian tale of a first-person narrator having a mind-bending encounter amidst prehistoric ruins, but it eventually becomes clear that the narrator is not human, and that the human race is the horrible creatures depicted on the walls of the ruins. She is the resident expert on that particular robot, and an assistant to the lead on the project. Precocious child, special schooling, early college and doctorate, beautiful skin, curves in all the right places, clear blue eyes, sleek red hair. Hot Scientist: The backstory of Unwise Child has the robot scientists bring in a child psychologist to help them develop their latest AI.Horse of a Different Color: In the Gandalara Cycle, the only animals big enough to ride are presentient and telepathic pantherids called sha'um (which translates to "great cat").
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Future Slang: "Backstage Lensmen" dials up the future slang common in the Lensman series to the point where none of the characters actually understand each other.Feghoot: Randall invented his own variant, where the final line would be a pun on the name of another science fiction writer.Fantasy Contraception: In the Gandalara Cycle, the women of a Human Subspecies are completely aware of their own fertility.Exact Words: Exploited along with an Expospeak Gag and convenient omission of key details in "The Best Policy" to paint an image of humanity as an immensely powerful race with a vast empire and telekinetic powers.Afterwards, he muses that he was probably assumed to be a god - specifically, Thor, with his "hammer" that creates thunder, kills distant enemies, and returns to his hand. He uses his pistol to help the locals defeat the "giants" before being returned to the present. Demythification: "Frost and Thunder" has the main character time-transported to ancient Scandanavia.Dead Guy Junior: At the end of "The Queen Bee," the lobotomized Elissa's first child is named Tina after one of the women she killed.The only known telepath who is neither catatonic nor a gibbering wreck, she is not only compos mentis, she's arguably the sanest and most sensible character in the book - except that she's unshakeably convinced that she's a 400-year-old immortal who used to be Queen Elizabeth I. Crazy Sane: Miss Thompson, the title character of "That Sweet Little Old Lady".By the end of the questioning, he has them believing that humans are incredibly powerful beings and that he's only humoring them them to be polite. he says that human minds are capable of channeling certain physical energies to travel from place to place - a literal description of walking that gives the impression that humans have the power of psychic teleportation). He realizes that he can exploit their ignorance with true but misleading statements (e.g. Consummate Liar: In "The Best Policy", the human protagonist is interrogated under a lie detector by aliens gathering intelligence for an invasion.He manages to give them a description in which every sentence is technically true, but the overall effect is a misleading picture of humans who possess immense powers, and the aliens are frightened off. Bluffing the Advance Scout: In "The Best Policy", alien advance scouts kidnap a human, stick him in a lie detector, and order him to describe Earth."Of course! The principle of the double negative! Two negaspheres make a posisphere! Our Gray Lensman has genius, Sir Houston!" The Starboard Admiral slammed his palm against the desk. Many of his early sf works were written in collaboration with Randall Garrett, both writing under the joint pseudonym of Mark Phillips.Sir Houston Carbarn smiled. Over the course of his 50 year writing career, Janifer used a number of pseudonyms and began publishing work of genre interest with "Expatriate" for Cosmos in 1953. He was born in Brooklyn, New York with the surname of Harris, later taking the original surname of his Polish grandfather. Laurence Mark Janifer was an American science fiction author. Garrett was at one time part of the Ziff-Davis stable writing for Amazing Stories and Fantastic, when he and his sometime collaborator Robert Silverberg ran a 'fiction factory' together. His first publication was a Probability Zero vignette for Astounding Science-Fiction in 1944. Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author and a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s under a wide variety of pseudonyms and house names.
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