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* [[Outside Context Villain]]: The Nevians in ''Triplanetary'' - when they first show up wreck both the patrol and the pirate fleets. Once the ''Boise'' gets the proper upgrades, however...
* [[Pardon My Klingon]] - The Lenses assign random words to alien concepts with no direct human equivalent, and all the lenses use the same word afterwards.
* [[The Power of the Sun]]: The Sunbeam is a set of satellites in solar orbit. When it's activated, people outside the satellites' orbit notice the sun dim - unless they're in line with the beam, in which case they're exposed to the entire energy output of the Sun. This is enough to melt the multi-foot thick metal hulls of the ships caught in the beam.
* [[Powered Armor]]: According to many, the [[Ur Example]], certainly a very early one (decades before [[Starship Troopers (novel)|''Starship Troopers'']]). Includes [[Deflector Shields|protective force-fields]], [[Inertial Dampening|inertial dampening tech]], [[Jet Pack|rocket thrusters]], a generous [[Frickin' Laser Beams|heat ray]], and [[Really Heavy Armor|the multi-kilohorsepower engines required to move it around]].
* [[Power of Love]]: This is what enables Clarissa to {{spoiler|find and bring back Kinnison after he went through the [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|Hell Hole]] and was trapped in a far off dimension that not even Mentor and the children could find.}} The chapter's even ''called'' "The Power of Love".
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