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* [[Cool Gate]]: The Ramsbotham gates, as mentioned above.
* [[Cool Gate]]: The Ramsbotham gates, as mentioned above.
* [[Disaster Democracy]]: The stranded students' mistake is ''not'' establishing a democracy, but making their government too complicated to suit primitive survival conditions.
* [[Disaster Democracy]]: The stranded students' mistake is ''not'' establishing a democracy, but making their government too complicated to suit primitive survival conditions.
* [[I Call Her "Vera"]]: Rod and his sister have foot-long Bowie-knives that they've named. The sister's is "Lady Macbeth". Rod's is "Colonel Bowie," showing an unfortunate lack of creativity on his part.
* [[I Call It "Vera"]]: Rod and his sister have foot-long Bowie-knives that they've named. The sister's is "Lady Macbeth". Rod's is "Colonel Bowie," showing an unfortunate lack of creativity on his part.
* [[Samus Is a Girl]] "Jack," facilitated by her [[24-Hour Armor]]. She wasn't sure that he would have teamed with her if he knew her actual sex.
* [[Samus Is a Girl]] "Jack," facilitated by her [[24-Hour Armor]]. She wasn't sure that he would have teamed with her if he knew her actual sex.
* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale/No Sense of Velocity|Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Velocity]]: At the start of the story, two teenagers notice a new visible star above the alien world they're stranded on, and conclude that they've just witnessed a nova. At the book's end, it's revealed a nova is what interfered with their [[Cool Gate]] back to Earth. If it's the same nova - which is strongly implied; indeed, the chapter where they see it is ''titled'' "The Nova", and it reads like a [[Chekhov's Gun]] - then the boys shouldn't have been able to see its light until years after it happened.
* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale/No Sense of Velocity|Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Velocity]]: At the start of the story, two teenagers notice a new visible star above the alien world they're stranded on, and conclude that they've just witnessed a nova. At the book's end, it's revealed a nova is what interfered with their [[Cool Gate]] back to Earth. If it's the same nova - which is strongly implied; indeed, the chapter where they see it is ''titled'' "The Nova", and it reads like a [[Chekhov's Gun]] - then the boys shouldn't have been able to see its light until years after it happened.
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