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# ''The Hub: Dangerous Territory''
 
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=== This series provides examples of: ===
 
* [[Absent -Minded Professor]]: Plemponi, Dr. Mantelish.
* [[Action Girl]]:
** [[Awesomeness By Analysis|Telzey]]
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* [[Cool Gate]]: In "The Lion Game"
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Dr Plemponi in ''Legacy''
* [[Dolled -Up Installment]]: The Baen reissues include a non-Hub story, "Planet of Forgetting", rewritten as a Hub story, "Forget It". The theory here was that [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/rec.arts.sf.written/msg/1e4301970a6520ea?hl=en it may well have been a Dolled Down Installment in the first place].
* [[Extra Eyes]]: In "Company Planet", a surgeon has an additional eye in the centre of his forehead, which Telzey guesses might act as a magnifier for close-in work.
* [[Famous Last Words]]: "And now, if it is within the power of a Tuvela to defy our purpose, show what you can do."
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* [[Humanity Is Infectious]]: In ''The Other Likeness.''
* [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place]]: "A Nice Day For Screaming" has this in spades: the space itself is inherently hazardous, and then it turns out there are ''things'' living in it... {{spoiler|although they aren't malicious.}}
* [[Immortality Seeker]]: Ticos Cay. This makes him a rarity among Hub citizens, who are mostly affected by [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]].
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Keth Deboll.
* [[Kaleidoscope Hair]]: Danestar Gems, in "The Searcher", always wears a wig of the same colour as her outfit.
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** An example is that despite the fact that Telzey originally fought for her freedom by ''blackmailing'' the Psychology Service, they've been entirely willing to help with the damage control on other crises she's helped bring to their attention, no strings attached, to the point of temporarily giving her official status as a Psychology Service field agent and then cutting her loose again rather than forcing her to stay when the case was over (despite the fact that they have the legal authority to draft her at any time). Then again, her case manager seems to be taking the tack of 'When Telzey finishes growing up, she'll probably come to me ''willingly''... after all, she does enjoy the work.'
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Pilch, possibly to the point of being a [[Time Abyss]].
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: When Telzey & Trigger team up, the calmly cerebral and ruthless Telzey plays a classic blue oni to Trigger's cheerful, outgoing, and [[Hot Blooded]] red oni.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Averted. Telzey's father is a highly wealthy and influential man, and her mother is on the Federation High Council... and vs. the forces she's been up against, both official and otherwise, neither one would have been able to do a damn thing to help.
** Well, her dad comes in handy on one of her early cases by introducing her to the Kyth Detective Agency... and paying their bill.
* [[Sexy Walk]]: Trigger apparently has one.