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A novel by [[Diana Wynne Jones]]. A team of mages finds it necessary to invade an alternate universe. 
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* [[Baby Talk]]: Marcus, Zillah's son. Rather well educated and smart even though his words hardly make sense to anyone but Zillah.
* [[Blithe Spirit]]: All of the women who go to Arth.
* [[Elseworld]]: Earth, Arth, and Petarchy. They even have alternate people called Analogues.
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|Everything's Better With Ether Monkeys]]: Jimbo
* [[Henpecked Husband]]: Mark tends to question from time to time ''why'' he married Paulie.
* [[I Choose to Stay]]:  {{spoiler|After the congo dancing scene, the women decided to stay in Arth}}
* [[The Infiltration]]: What drives the plot; realizing that [[Conspiracy Theories|another world has been forcing Earth into war after war to force them to build new technology and copy it]], Gladys sends a team of highly trained female mages ([[Spanner in the Works|as well as Zillah, by accident]]) to the other world and stop them.
* [[The Load]]: [[Jerkass|Roz]] tends to see Zillah as this.
* [[Male Gaze]]: A world filled with male mages suddenly seeing women in their world that are just ''dying'' to get attention (as ulterior motive)? Pretty obvious.
* [[Moe]]: Zillah
* [[The Mole]]: Brother Tony is assigned to spy on Paulie and return information to Arth.  {{spoiler|Later, because Tod kissed Zillah, he has to fill in, much to his displeasure.}}
* [[Never the Selves Shall Meet]]: When they enter the alternate universe, all the ones with counterparts there instantly die.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Zillah again.
* [[Sex Is Evil]]: In-universe. It's not allowed in Arth because it will upset the balance.
* [[Eccentric Mentor]]: Gladys
* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]:  {{spoiler|Mark.}}
* [[Wild Magic]]:  {{spoiler|Zillah's true potential}}

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