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''Pandora's Star'' presents a [[Loads and Loads of Characters|multifacted]] view of a future where [[Portal Network|wormhole technology]] has allowed mankind to colonize the universe, and genetics technology have made people practically immortal via rejuvenation treatments. Although the plot diverges in several directions, all of the story threads eventually become interwoven in a cliffhanger climax.
A quick summary of the [[Four Lines, All Waiting|numerous plot threads]] is as follows:
* Bumbling astronomer Dudley Bose observes an entire double-star system (Dyson Alpha and Beta) blink out of existence for no apparent reason, indicating a sort of instant-Dyson-sphere may have been erected.
* Humanity decides that either there is something bad inside the spheres that needed containing, or that there's something bad ''outside'', and the Dyson aliens tried to protect themselves {{spoiler|(it's the former)}}. They construct their ''first ever'' interstellar ship (up to that point having used planet-bound wormholes and trains to travel between colonies) and send it to investigate Dyson Alpha. Dudley Bose is placed on-board as a political maneuver.
* A [[Inspector Javert|genetically engineered detective]] chases an [[Well
* One of the co-inventors of the wormhole technology seeks the wisdom of [[Proud Scholar Race Guy|intergalactic]] [[Recycled in Space|space elves]] regarding the Dyson pair, and gets stranded in the far corners of the galaxy, with an [[Starfish Alien|unknown alien]] and a young kid as his companions.
* The explorers sent to the Dyson stars discover a [[Sealed Evil in A Can|gigantic force field]] encompassing Dyson Alpha. Their arrival coincides with its shutting down for the first time in millennia {{spoiler|(it's not a coincidence)}}.
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* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: Averted. MorningLightMountain is able to communicate with Dudley Bose only because {{spoiler|it places his brain into another immotile; even such, its thoughts appear disjointed and alien}}.
** MorningLightMountain can only talk to the SI after the SI hacked into its communications network and by utilizing the knowledge gained while interacting with Bose.
* [[All Planets Are Earthlike]]: Averted. In one chapter, a planet is methodically reached, explored, and rejected for settlement potential in the course of several hours.
* [[
* [[Can't Argue With Elves]]: The space hippie Silfen comprehend the universe in a way so different that they are barely able to communicate meaningfully with humans.
* [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov's Wormhole]]: Ozzie's personal asteroid and wormhole generator can get to almost anywhere in the Commonwealth, but is effectively useless for most of the book since Ozzie is outside Commonwealth space. Turns out to be important when {{spoiler|Mellanie and the SI hack it to evacuate Randtown refugees}}.
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** The Prime homeworld has been like this ever since those Prime bastards invented nuclear weapons. Not that they cared much about it in the first place.
* [[Dyson Sphere]]: It's actually an impenetrable forcefield.
* [[Easily
* [[First Contact]]: It doesn't go so well.
* [[For Science!]]: Basically the reason humanity wants to poke its nose in something it probably shouldn't.
* [[Four Lines, All Waiting]]: It is over 900 pages of seemingly unimportant plotlines and occasionally entire chapters of [[Narrative Filigree|flavor text]]. Thankfully it's to set up the second, and much more action packed book in the series.
** Emphasis on "seemingly" there - on a subsequent read-through it becomes apparent [[Chekhov's Gun|how many guns Chekhov left laying around]].
* [[Ghost Planet]]: One of the destinations the Silfen Paths take Ozzie, Orion and Tochee to.
* [[
* [[Hive Mind]]: MorningLightMountain {{spoiler|disrupts all other Immotiles and takes over their soldiers, basically becoming the whole Prime ''species''}}.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: It's a flow wormhole generator, ''not'' a hyperdrive.
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