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* [[Alliterative Name]]: The ''Marianne'' trilogy is one doozy of an example: ''Marianne, the Magus and the Manticore,'' then ''Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods,'' and finally ''Marianne, the Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouse.'' |
* [[Alliterative Name]]: The ''Marianne'' trilogy is one doozy of an example: ''Marianne, the Magus and the Manticore,'' then ''Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods,'' and finally ''Marianne, the Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouse.'' |
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* [[Anti-Magic]]: The 'muties' in ''The True Game'' series suppress the gifts of all nearby Gamesmen. |
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* [[Anvilicious]]: Tepper's works are loaded with rather less than subtle commentary on feminist philosophy and religion; particularly ''[[The Gate to Womens Country]]'' and ''The Revenants''. |
* [[Anvilicious]]: Tepper's works are loaded with rather less than subtle commentary on feminist philosophy and religion; particularly ''[[The Gate to Womens Country]]'' and ''The Revenants''. |
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* [[Author Tract]] |
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* [[Bad Powers Bad People]]: In ''The True Game'' series, with lampshade-hanging from a scholar who remarks that in every case he's aware of, the unpleasant powers always go to unpleasant people who actually enjoy having them. |
* [[Bad Powers, Bad People]]: In ''The True Game'' series, with lampshade-hanging from a scholar who remarks that in every case he's aware of, the unpleasant powers always go to unpleasant people who actually enjoy having them. |
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* [[Body Horror]]: It's found in spades in Tepper's novels. In ''Shadow's End'', in exchange for humans being permitted to live on the planet Dinadh, {{spoiler|when a woman experiences her first pregnancy she is then gang-raped by a native race called the Kachis. Several Kachis grow in her womb, eating the human foetus for sustenance. When the woman goes into labour, if there isn't a special container to restrain the Kachis when they are born, they will proceed to attack the woman.}} In ''Gibbon's Decline and Fall'' the main villain {{spoiler|envisions a world where women exist in mindless suspended animation, the only part of their body utilised is the womb in order to create more men for his "perfect reality."}} It seems that Tepper's pre-author career working for Planned Parenthood gave her plenty of personal [[Nightmare Fuel]]. See also the novel ''Sideshow'' for dinka-jins. |
* [[Body Horror]]: It's found in spades in Tepper's novels. In ''Shadow's End'', in exchange for humans being permitted to live on the planet Dinadh, {{spoiler|when a woman experiences her first pregnancy she is then gang-raped by a native race called the Kachis. Several Kachis grow in her womb, eating the human foetus for sustenance. When the woman goes into labour, if there isn't a special container to restrain the Kachis when they are born, they will proceed to attack the woman.}} In ''Gibbon's Decline and Fall'' the main villain {{spoiler|envisions a world where women exist in mindless suspended animation, the only part of their body utilised is the womb in order to create more men for his "perfect reality."}} It seems that Tepper's pre-author career working for Planned Parenthood gave her plenty of personal [[Nightmare Fuel]]. See also the novel ''Sideshow'' for dinka-jins. |
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* [[Call a Smeerp A Rabbit]]: In the novel ''Grass'' there is a native breed of animal specifically called the Hippae, but those who live on the planet of Grass commonly refer to them as horses and ride them in their fox hunt. Due to some miscommunication, offplanet equestrians arrive to join in the hunt and encounter what can only be classed as [[Nightmare Fuel]] - the Hippae {{spoiler|are three times as large as horses, their neck is covered in spiny barbs, and with their vicious intelligence they control the hunt and those who ride upon them.}} Tepper initially leaves the reader just as much in the dark as to the nature of the Hippae as she does the offplanet tourists. |
* [[Call a Smeerp A Rabbit]]: In the novel ''Grass'' there is a native breed of animal specifically called the Hippae, but those who live on the planet of Grass commonly refer to them as horses and ride them in their fox hunt. Due to some miscommunication, offplanet equestrians arrive to join in the hunt and encounter what can only be classed as [[Nightmare Fuel]] - the Hippae {{spoiler|are three times as large as horses, their neck is covered in spiny barbs, and with their vicious intelligence they control the hunt and those who ride upon them.}} Tepper initially leaves the reader just as much in the dark as to the nature of the Hippae as she does the offplanet tourists. |
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