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In order, the books are:
* ''The Serpent''
* ''The Dragon''
* ''Atlan''
* ''The City''
* ''Some Summer Lands''
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* [[All Men Are Rapists]]: Not literally ''every'' man in the series is a rapist, but Cija's suspicions of the men she meets on her travels are often well-founded. She spares the reader the details.
* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Cija, initially.
* [[Brother
* [[Camp Gay]]: In ''The Serpent'', Cija encounters Lel, an effeminate boy who describes himself as "wishing [he] had been born a girl." [[Trans Equals Gay|Before the reader can assume that Gaskell included an impressively early example of a transsexual character in a fantasy novel, Lel appears as the catamite to a decadent aristocrat from a court full of "woman-hating men."]]
* [[Classical
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Cija grew up without a father, but she eventually finds him. The results are not heartwarming.
* [[
* [[Gratuitous Rape]]: Every now and then.
* [[Half
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Possibly averted in ''Atlan'', in which Cija's son Nal wanders off in the middle of an earthquake.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Zerd was born by a reptile mother to a human father. Zerd's marriage to Cija also counts, despite the lack of actual romance in their relationship.
** In ''The City'', Cija wanders into a grove inhabited by apes, where she becomes a bull ape's paramour. He goes so far as to [[Half
** When Cija finds her father in a temple, she notices that he has married an alligator.
* [[Jungle Opera]]: ''The Serpent'', ''The Dragon'', and ''The City''.
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* [[Lost World]]: The setting as a whole qualifies, but the titular Atlan (short for Atlantis) merits this term especially, being shielded by a force field and accessible only via an underwater tunnel.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: The Dictatress urges Cija to use this tactic on her enemies. It works entirely too well.
* [[One
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]
* [[Science Marches On]]: Both ''The Serpent'' and ''The Dragon'' conclude with bibliographies of discredited reference works (specifically, Robert Graves's ''The White Goddess'' and James Churchward's ''The Lost Continent of Mu'').
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