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* [[Human Popsicle]]: Most starship passengers, as it's either cryo or spend years or decades awake between stars.
* [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]]: Shadowplay, in which the bored, virtually immortal residents of Chasm City are hunted by professional assassins according to pre-agreed rules. The game is set up so most of the clients survive, in order that people will keep paying for the thrill-seeking experience.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: "Servitors" [[Call a Rabbit
** What are these "cryogenics" you speak of? They're called "reefersleep", dammit ! And flying cars are "[[Everything Sounds Sexier in French|volantors]]", get it?
* [[Meanwhile in
* [[More Than Mind Control]]: When it's not simply driving it's hosts mad, the [[Eldritch Abomination|Sun Stealer]]'s influence on people is implied to be this. For example, {{spoiler|Dan Sylveste's}} urge to go to Resurgam, despite {{spoiler|there being no good reason to go there, let alone found a colony and begin archaelogical digs}}.
** Also implied with {{spoiler|Calvin and Dan's relationship. Dan somehow never seems aware that he is Calvin's clone (he still believes the entire time that he is just Calvin's son), despite all the other important and odd details he knows (such as the fact that Calvin can take over his body like a puppeteer). Also, despite their antogonistic relationship, Calvin seems to have an undue influence on Dan's decisions.}}
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* [[Non-Action Guy]]: Dan Sylveste. He is a main character, and is certainly ''around'' a lot of action, but largely avoids most of it himself.
* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]] : Dan Sylveste and his father, Calvin.
* [[Powered Armor]] : The [[A Mech
* [[Projected Man]] : Many of the "entoptic" simulations and personal avatars are presented as this.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Reynolds is a former astronomer and a former ESA employee.
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* [[Spirit Advisor]]: The Mademoiselle's beta-level sim in Ana Khouri's implants. Also, Calvin's simulation to Dan, once Calvin figures out how to get around various safeguards and pop into Dan's visual field whenever he wants to...
* [[Title Drop]]: "Revelation Space" refers to the region of spacetime around a Shroud; the one person who survived a close encounter later describes having alien knowledge downloaded into his brain.
* [[Tomato in
* [[The Everyman]]: Ana Khouri is the most ordinary of the main cast. Unsurprisingly, she's also technically [[The Hero]].
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