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And we haven't even scratched the surface of his original novels, which include ''Web of Angels'', which did [[Cyberpunk]] before cyberpunk was cool; ''The Princes of the Air'', a [[Space Opera]] featuring a trio of con men; ''The Dragon Waiting'', an [[Alternate History]] political thriller that won a World Fantasy award; ''The Scholars of Night'', a [[Cold War]] thriller; ''Growing Up Weightless'', a Philip K. Dick Award winner that's been described as one of the best Heinlein juveniles [[Robert Heinlein]] never wrote; and ''The Last Hot Time'', a [[The Windy City|Chicago]] gangster story set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] in which half the characters are elves.
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* [[Actual Pacifist]]: The diplomat Emanuel Tagore in ''The Final Reflection''. This causes some confusion when Klingon security attempts to search his luggage for hidden weapons, and takes their inability to find any as a sign that he's hidden them really well.
* [[Against My Religion]]: In ''How Much for Just the Planet?'' we have McCoy explaining why he, Sulu, and two Klingons won't Kneel Before Zod (the evil queen Janeka):