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* [[Bluffing the Advance Scout]]: In "The Best Policy", alien advance scouts kidnap a human, stick him in a lie detector, and order him to describe Earth. He manages to give them a description in which every sentence is technically true, but the overall effect is a misleading picture of humans who possess immense, even supernatural powers, and the aliens are frightened off.
** The Nipe in "Anything You Can Do" gets persuaded that the humans it's met on Earth are ruled by a race of supermen living in the asteroid belt.
* [[Crazy Sane]]: Miss Thompson, the title character of "That Sweet Little Old Lady". The only known telepath who is neither catatonic nor a gibbering wreck, she is not only ''compos mentis'', she's arguably the sanest and most sensible character in the book -- except that she's unshakeably convinced that she's a 400-year-old immortal who used to be [[The Virgin Queen|Queen Elizabeth I]].
* [[Fantasy Contraception]]: In the Gandalara Cycle, the women of a [[Human Subspecies]] are completely aware of their own fertility.
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