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* [[Reconstruction]]: A Wizard of Mars is essentially a study in creating a modern day story that both justifies and explains the now discredited in serious fiction "invaders from Mars" plot.
* [[Reconstruction]]: A Wizard of Mars is essentially a study in creating a modern day story that both justifies and explains the now discredited in serious fiction "invaders from Mars" plot.
* [[Rewriting Reality]]: what the Speech does. Writing names requires especial care. Famously, Nita {{spoiler|rewrote the name of the ''Lone Power'' while reading the ''Book of Night With Moon'', opening the chance for Its redemption.}}
* [[Rewriting Reality]]: what the Speech does. Writing names requires especial care. Famously, Nita {{spoiler|rewrote the name of the ''Lone Power'' while reading the ''Book of Night With Moon'', opening the chance for Its redemption.}}
* [[Sapient Cetaceans]]: The series features Cetacean wizards (the Trek novel contains a [[Shout Out]] to them). Of course, pretty much everyone and everything with more brains than a sponge has Wizarding potential in this setting.
* [[Sapient Cetaceans]]: The series features Cetacean wizards (the Trek novel contains a [[Shout-Out]] to them). Of course, pretty much everyone and everything with more brains than a sponge has Wizarding potential in this setting.
* [[Satan]]: The Lone Power, though seeing as he has to trick species into accepting death and entropy, he also represents the Trickster gods of Native American legends.
* [[Satan]]: The Lone Power, though seeing as he has to trick species into accepting death and entropy, he also represents the Trickster gods of Native American legends.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: The wizard's manual describes plain old things like teleportation in insanely impossible-to-understand words. Justified in that magic is based on telling the universe what you want it to do in a very specific manner. You NEED to be able to split hairs and use precise diction. Especially when you want to do things like bring air with you on your jaunt to the moon. If you miswrite a name, the named changes to fit.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: The wizard's manual describes plain old things like teleportation in insanely impossible-to-understand words. Justified in that magic is based on telling the universe what you want it to do in a very specific manner. You NEED to be able to split hairs and use precise diction. Especially when you want to do things like bring air with you on your jaunt to the moon. If you miswrite a name, the named changes to fit.
* [[She's All Grown Up]]: {{spoiler|Kit and Nita both realize this about each other in ''A Wizard of Mars''}}
* [[She's All Grown Up]]: {{spoiler|Kit and Nita both realize this about each other in ''A Wizard of Mars''}}
* [[Shout Out]]: Sprinkled liberally throughout the series:
* [[Shout-Out]]: Sprinkled liberally throughout the series:
** There is a guest appearance by [[Doctor Who (TV)|the Peter Davison Doctor]] in the third book as a good Samaritan who helps Dairine in a moment of need.
** There is a guest appearance by [[Doctor Who|the Peter Davison Doctor]] in the third book as a good Samaritan who helps Dairine in a moment of need.
** The fifth book has a shout out to the fifth (and unreleased in English) season of ''[[Sailor Moon]],'' in the form of a [[Fan Sub]] being watched by Kit's big sister. (This was confirmed by [[Word of God]].)
** The fifth book has a shout out to the fifth (and unreleased in English) season of ''[[Sailor Moon]],'' in the form of a [[Fan Sub]] being watched by Kit's big sister. (This was confirmed by [[Word of God]].)
** ''A Wizard of Mars'' hangs many lampshades on classic science fiction involving the planet, including Edgar Rice Burroughs' works and ''[[War of the Worlds]]''. Nita even encounters [[Looney Tunes|Marvin the Martian]].
** ''A Wizard of Mars'' hangs many lampshades on classic science fiction involving the planet, including Edgar Rice Burroughs' works and ''[[War of the Worlds]]''. Nita even encounters [[Looney Tunes|Marvin the Martian]].
** Also in ''A Wizard of Mars,'' Ronan mentions [[Doctor Who (TV)|hiding behind the couch]] at the scary parts of the science fiction show he watched as a child.
** Also in ''A Wizard of Mars,'' Ronan mentions [[Doctor Who|hiding behind the couch]] at the scary parts of the science fiction show he watched as a child.
** In ''A Wizard of Mars,'' Darryl mentions that he's eating [[Calvin and Hobbes|Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs]], Calvin's favorite breakfast cereal (and the only one he'll eat).
** In ''A Wizard of Mars,'' Darryl mentions that he's eating [[Calvin and Hobbes|Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs]], Calvin's favorite breakfast cereal (and the only one he'll eat).
** Conversely, the series gets a shout-out in one of the author's ''[[Star Trek]]'' novels, where a cetacean scientist mentions the Song of the Twelve.
** Conversely, the series gets a shout-out in one of the author's ''[[Star Trek]]'' novels, where a cetacean scientist mentions the Song of the Twelve.
** The end of ''A Wizard Abroad'', with Tualha becoming Queen of the Cats and vanishing up the chimney, is a shout out to the old fairy tale [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Cats King o' the Cats].
** The end of ''A Wizard Abroad'', with Tualha becoming Queen of the Cats and vanishing up the chimney, is a shout out to the old fairy tale [[wikipedia:King of the Cats|King o' the Cats]].
* [[Some Call Me... Tim]]: Fred the sentient [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hole white hole], Ed the Shark and Filif the tree-like alien.
* [[Some Call Me... Tim]]: Fred the sentient [[wikipedia:White hole|white hole]], Ed the Shark and Filif the tree-like alien.
* [[So You Want To]]: Be a Wizard?
* [[So You Want To]]: Be a Wizard?
* [[Someone Has to Die]]: It is an established rule in the books that, to defeat the Lone Power, someone or something must die.
* [[Someone Has to Die]]: It is an established rule in the books that, to defeat the Lone Power, someone or something must die.
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* [[Time Travel]]: Mostly in the ''Feline Wizards'' series, though it is used in the first book of the main series so that the two child protagonists can have an adventure yet still get back home in time for dinner, thus preventing their parents from interfering with their work.
* [[Time Travel]]: Mostly in the ''Feline Wizards'' series, though it is used in the first book of the main series so that the two child protagonists can have an adventure yet still get back home in time for dinner, thus preventing their parents from interfering with their work.
** [[Delayed Ripple Effect]]
** [[Delayed Ripple Effect]]
** [[Timeline Altering MacGuffin]]
** [[Timeline-Altering MacGuffin]]
*** {{spoiler|It is the solution to the problem in ''A Wizard of Mars''.}}
*** {{spoiler|It is the solution to the problem in ''A Wizard of Mars''.}}
* [[Translator Microbes]]: The [[Language of Magic]] that wizards use lets them be understood by all living things (and all non-living things, too), and also lets them understand all languages.
* [[Translator Microbes]]: The [[Language of Magic]] that wizards use lets them be understood by all living things (and all non-living things, too), and also lets them understand all languages.
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