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'''''Enemy Mine''''' by Barry B. Longyear was published as a novella in IASFM, September, 1979. It won the Hugo and Nebula awards in the novella category in 1980.▼
▲''Enemy Mine'' by Barry B. Longyear was published as a novella in IASFM, September, 1979. It won the Hugo and Nebula awards in the novella category in 1980.
▲Then there was [[Enemy Mine (Film)|the movie]].
▲Later published in ''The Enemy Papers'' along with sequels ''The Tomorrow Testament'' and ''The Last Enemy'', as well as some bonus material related to the setting.
The main plot is driven by implications of a big war between Humans and Dracs, its consequences and the true cause behind it.
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* [[Bilingual Backfire]] - A couple Dracs on the way back to their homeworld don't expect the human protagonist to be able to understand them. He lets them know with a few choice words in Drac that they picked entirely the wrong human to insult behind his back.
* [[Cycle of Revenge]]: ''The Tomorrow Testament'', and particularly ''The Last Enemy'', wrestle with this problem. How to stop a war which is counterproductive for both Humans and Dracs, but whose populations will still fight because of this?
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* [[Death World]]: Amadeen. Once it was just one more boring mining colony, but no more -- a courtesy of [[War Is Hell]] trope.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Not the [[Trope Namer]], but helped popularize it.
* [[I Am X, Son of Y]]: Dracs use [[Master Apprentice Chain]] in this way. Which (added to actually caring about one of them) makes Davidge a honorary member of Zammis' clan.
* [[Irrevocable Order]]: If the station where peace negotiations are conducted will be blown up, this will also take out the only officer capable of stopping in time the fleet sent to bomb the guilty party's homeworld. Joanne Nicole [[Good Is Not Nice|isn't nice]].
* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: A number of characters, but principally Davidge.
* [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]]: The difference between humans and Drac (save the very fact that the latter are hermaphrodite lizards) is not so great and more cultural than biological in nature. Much the same for other aliens.
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* [[Summon Bigger Fish]]: There's a whole ''species'' who has the "[[Let's You and Him Fight]]" approach ingrained in their culture. [[Captain Obvious|They're not warlike, but quite dangerous]].
* [[Sword of Damocles]]: The whole point of the Navi Di, although they do have to establish that they're fully willing and capable of using the power they have.
* [[War Is Hell]]: The first book is mostly about two stranded pilots, but second and third deals with it more closely.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: One of the main messages of Talman (Drac "Bible") is "look what your true goal is, then start looking for the ways to reach it"
** And then it turned out that even ''Dracs'' were duped and [[Unwitting Pawn|used by other schemers.]]
* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]: Human pilots are taught to insult one of renowned Drac philosophers [[I Shall Taunt You|to taunt cold-blooded enemy pilots into more rash actions]]. Drac pilots are [[Batman Gambit|taught]] that {{spoiler|''Mickey Mouse''}} was a renowned human philosopher, so they answer accordingly. It's not hard to guess which one incapacitates better.
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