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Friday

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Friday	label	Friday
Friday	page	Friday
Friday	comment	Friday is a novel by Robert A. Heinlein about an Artificial Human called Friday "Jones", a.k.a. "Marjorie Baldwin". When the novel starts, she is working as a spy/courier for a mysterious organization based in a nation-state centered around Chicago. It gets messy; she reflexively kills someone who might have been a tail and evades other pursuit that involves blowing up an entire hotel she just left. She finally reaches her home base — and immediately gets captured by enemy agents and tortured for the information she was carrying, which is not in her head. After finally being freed from that escapade, it is near time for her to consider retiring.So she flies to her home in New Zealand, where she is one of about eight spouses in a group marriage. She isn't there often, but she wanted a place to call home. One of her adoptive children scandalizes the family by starting a relation with a minority. Friday tries to make it better by admitting that she's an artificial human, since these are also prejudiced against. Then she finds out, the hard way, that being a married artificial human in New Zealand is illegal, and virtually the next thing she knows, she's thrown out of the group marriage, crashing with a handsome Quebecois airline/spacecraft pilot she met and his significant others. And that's when a massive wave of terrorist attacks, "Red Thursday", plunges the world into chaos.From there, Friday has to survive the chaos of the patchwork of states on the North American continent in order to stay free, make contact with her organization, and figure out what's happening. This proves extremely difficult...In the Canon Welding, this would come sometime after The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress in that book's timeline, but the connection is not necessary. It is a sequel to an earlier book, Gulf.
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Friday / int_1b68e2e2	type	The Chase
Friday / int_1b68e2e2	comment	The Chase: Friday spends significant parts of the novel either pursued by or in pursuit of a variety of people.
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Friday / int_1ee0948e	type	Artificial Human
Friday / int_1ee0948e	comment	Artificial Human: Friday is an Artificial Person, so designated because they are lab-created rather than "natural born" humans, with plenty of prejudice against them.
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Friday / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Friday / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: In spades and everywhere; Friday's boss is of the opinion that the bureaucratic mentality is one of the cancers eating at society.
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Friday / int_1f8cdb5c	type	Who Shot JFK?
Friday / int_1f8cdb5c	comment	Who Shot JFK?: A Discussed Trope - anyone who looks at it knows something is up, but it's academic because there's no way to confirm any of it.
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Friday / int_20779065	type	Marry Them All
Friday / int_20779065	comment	Marry Them All: Friday ends up marrying all her paramours, unofficially at least. Legally, she's Percival's wife, but in fact it's a big polyamory.
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Friday / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Friday / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Among other weapons, the secret hiding places built into Friday. Her trick belly button is a subverted Chekhov's Gun, as she's tricked into thinking she's transporting an embryo in a stasis capsule, when it's in fact inside her uterus.
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Friday / int_22f5d1b9	type	Some of My Best Friends Are X
Friday / int_22f5d1b9	comment	Some of My Best Friends Are X: Friday's response when Georges Perreault mentions that he's a genetic engineer, involved in the creation of Artificial Persons. Georges politely disagrees; while he can honestly say this, as his job involves working with such people, it's extremely unlikely that Friday would have any friends who'd even admit they were AP's, due to Fantastic Racism. The irony being that (unknown to Georges at the time) Friday is an AP herself, posing as a normal human.
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Friday / int_24c685bf	type	Good Bad Girl
Friday / int_24c685bf	comment	Good Bad Girl: Fully trained in sexuality from her time in crÃ©che, Friday is enthusiastically horny and unrestrained by most cultural taboos. However, she is very picky about her partners and is uncomfortable with lesbians (until she meets Janet).
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Friday / int_2dd7bf18	type	Rich Genius
Friday / int_2dd7bf18	comment	Rich Genius: Daniel Shipstone is the inventor of an "improved power battery" before the Second Atlantic Rebellion and later used the funds gained by his invention to create the MegaCorp Shipstone.
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Friday / int_3012325a	type	Exotic Extended Marriage
Friday / int_3012325a	comment	Exotic Extended Marriage: Starts with the protagonist in a group marriage in New Zealand, although they divorce her after she exposes their racist hypocrisy. She later joins a much healthier group marriage.
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Friday / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
Friday / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: Near the beginning, a hotel blows up shortly after Friday has left it. She thinks it's a coincidence, but her Boss tells her that she very strongly underestimated the value of the material she was carrying.
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Friday / int_3eccc27b	type	Power Source
Friday / int_3eccc27b	comment	Power Source: The Shipstones are a humdinger of one; where most sci-fi of the time was obsessed with anything "atomic", Heinlein proposed super-batteries.
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Friday / int_416a2a0d	type	Torture Always Works
Friday / int_416a2a0d	comment	Torture Always Works: Discussed Trope. Friday's organization works on the rule of "If they grab you, sing!" Because the supposition is that with enough time, torture and modern Truth Serums will break anyone, so information is carefully compartmentalized so that someone who's likely to be captured (like Friday) doesn't know anything worth telling. Thus, Friday lays out everything she knows about her organization before they can torture her (but after they gangrape her as a warm-up), to prevent being tortured and thus preserve her physical and mental health. The torturers' boss doesn't believe her, even after she says the same thing under the influence of Truth Serums, and has her tortured anyway — and so Friday writes him off as an amateur.
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Friday / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Friday / int_4482e1ef	comment	Divided States of America: And Canada, portrayed as the result of sociopolitical collapse and the schism of the countries along cultural lines.
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Friday / int_48507284	type	Credit Card Destruction
Friday / int_48507284	comment	Credit Card Destruction: When a person inserts an expired/cancelled credit card into a slot to pay for something, the device will destroy the card using a "destruction bolt" accompanied by the smell of burning plastic.
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Friday / int_4cc0c6f2	type	TruthSerum
Friday / int_4cc0c6f2	comment	Truth Serum: When Friday is captured by Boss' enemies, they use a truth drug on her to make her spill the beans about her mission. This annoys her because she's already told them everything she knows, and because they are so amateurish that they might kill her with an improper dosage.
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Friday / int_51805c03	type	Treasure Chest Cavity
Friday / int_51805c03	comment	Treasure Chest Cavity: Friday's belly button pouch — subverted, as her enemies have found out about it, and so it's used as a decoy instead.
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Friday / int_55c1f305	type	Multiple Identity IDs
Friday / int_55c1f305	comment	Multiple Identity IDs: In the beginning, Friday kills a man who was following her, then finds several identity documents and credit cards for one "Adolf Belsen", along with other credit cards for "Albert Beaumont", "Arthur Bookman" and "Archibald Buchanan". Friday improvises a plan to make it look like "Beaumont-Bookman-Buchanan" ambushed "Belsen" and hid the body, and then proceeds to have the four identities pay for tickets to different destinations before paying cash to escape the general area.
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Friday / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Friday / int_55c79f7c	comment	When Janet takes Friday on a tour of her panic room on Red Thursday, she makes a point of showing her where the back door is — and that there are Death Traps waiting for anyone who discovers the passage and can't find the off switch. Much later, Friday's life depends on figuring out where they would have placed the switch when she returns to British Canada and finds the Tormeys gone. (There's also a long, narrow, underwater tunnel leading from the house to the shelter.)
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Friday / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Friday / int_57b80b45	comment	Later in her travels, Friday encounters a fellow AP, but neither knows that the other is one and so both play out the expected dance of Fantastic Racism in their society. This results in him getting cold feet and her crying herself to sleep.
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Friday / int_5dfa0fde	type	Omniscient Morality License
Friday / int_5dfa0fde	comment	Omniscient Morality License: Friday's boss seems to have one. His "black" organization, in addition to its nominal courier activities, carries out targeted assassinations of individuals whom he feels would benefit humanity by their absence.
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Friday / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Friday / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Percival, Tilly/"Shizuko" — both due to being artificial persons and thus feeling solidarity with Friday.
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Friday / int_63c1170b	type	Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story
Friday / int_63c1170b	comment	Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story: Done by Friday and many other runaway or liberated "artificial persons" who need cover stories. Her "birthplace" is Seattle (destroyed in an earthquake) and Friday cynically comments that the recent destruction of Acapulco in a corporate war means that a lot of artificial persons will end up being "born" there as well.
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Friday / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Friday / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Although less prominent than with Heinlein's other later novels, this one still contains significant helpings of Polyamory and nudism, plus it continues to make his case for a Libertarian utopia.
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Friday / int_69c864de	type	Deliberate Under-Performance
Friday / int_69c864de	comment	Deliberate Under-Performance: The title character is a genetically engineered woman with supergenius intelligence. She says that in school, she was taught to answer questions on IQ tests to hit a pre-determined score in order to not show off her intelligence.
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Friday / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Friday / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: Although Friday's left on a colony world without the technology to make her fertile, she bears the designer royal baby she was hired to deliver and raises it as her own child alongside the other members of her group marriage and their children.
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Friday / int_6f27f4ba	type	Surveillance Drone
Friday / int_6f27f4ba	comment	Surveillance Drone: The Public Eyes. Friday carries a pocket laser that she uses to burn them out and damage their memory.
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Friday / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Friday / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: On the paperback cover, Friday looks practically Aryan — blond hair, fair skin — but the text describes her as being much darker skinned. Word of God said Friday was partly inspired by Nichelle Nichols.
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Friday / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
Friday / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: Friday is able to accurately predict the second coming of the Black Plague while half asleep, after a week-long Archive Binge.
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Friday / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Friday / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: The couplet, "My mother was a test tube, my father was a knife," is adopted by Artificial Persons as a rallying cry and means of self-identification, and comes up several times.
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Friday / int_7568eb84	type	Human Subspecies
Friday / int_7568eb84	comment	Human Subspecies: Living Artifacts are artificial organisms that are obviously non-human in form. None play a visible role in the story, but they are frequently discussed and mentioned: for example, Ian mentions the dwarven "kobold" artifacts displacing miners while talking about his pilot's union's negotiations.
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Friday / int_7a97b7f4	type	Morning Sickness
Friday / int_7a97b7f4	comment	Morning Sickness: Friday never gets sea- or space-sick, so the fact that she suddenly starts heaving her guts out aboard the H.S. Forward is what causes her unexpected pregnancy to be revealed.
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Friday / int_80133ca4	type	Trial Balloon Question
Friday / int_80133ca4	comment	Trial Balloon Question: Friday floats a question to one of her husbands in Christchurch to find out how he feels about Artificial Persons. Having gotten an unsatisfactory response, she escalates the issue by unmistakably proving herself to be one, which promptly gets her kicked out. Later in her travels, Friday encounters a fellow AP, but neither knows that the other is one and so both play out the expected dance of Fantastic Racism in their society. This results in him getting cold feet and her crying herself to sleep.
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Friday / int_831164fe	type	Signature Style
Friday / int_831164fe	comment	Signature Style: The opening of the novel is classic Heinlein in that it starts In Medias Res and reveals the protagonist's occupation and personality through first-person narration while she's killing people and evading capture.
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Friday / int_87c0c782	type	"Day of the Week" Name
Friday / int_87c0c782	comment	"Day of the Week" Name: Friday is the protagonist's crÃ©che-name, although she has other legal (and illegal) aliases. It is not clear whether the "Jones" surname is legal or assumed.
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Friday / int_87f13be4	type	Designer Babies
Friday / int_87f13be4	comment	Designer Babies: Humanity has learned to grow custom-tailored humans and other creatures; these are known as "Artificial Persons" if they are superficially human and "Living Artifacts" if they are clearly not human. Both are subject to a great deal of Fantastic Racism; Friday's an AP, and suffers from a crushing inferiority neurosis because of it.
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Friday / int_89baee12	type	Space Opera
Friday / int_89baee12	comment	Space Opera: A new reader to Heinlein's works could be forgiven for thinking this novel is a political thriller in a futuristic setting, until Friday decides to emigrate off-planet.
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Friday / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Friday / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Lieutenant Dickey is described as someone who had repeatedly tried to sleep with Friday's friend Janet despite being repeatedly told no, as "slimy", and as having "a size-twelve ego in a size-four soul". About a minute later, Friday kills him as he's trying to arrest one of her friends at gunpoint.
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Friday / int_916ecb1	type	But I Can't Be Pregnant!
Friday / int_916ecb1	comment	But I Can't Be Pregnant!: Friday is very surprised to find out that she's expecting, given that her sterility is permanent without specialized lab equipment. Turns out that her employer put one over on her and implanted her with the embryo she was supposed to be transporting.
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Friday / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Friday / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Friday's Boss asks her to predict the next coming of the Black Plague. Much to her chagrin, he takes that prediction seriously, and the epilogue reveals that it does, in fact, happen. Thanks to her advice, humanity is able to keep the Plague from spreading offworld.
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Friday / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Friday / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Friday deduces that, since her employers tricked her into being implanted with an embryo rather than transporting it in stasis in her belly-button compartment, she will be conveniently killed at the conclusion of her mission. Nor can she spill the beans because the ship's captain would already be in on the scam, and she can't bring herself to abort the baby. So she decides to Take a Third Option by jumping ship.
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Friday / int_93329c33	type	Medical Rape and Impregnate
Friday / int_93329c33	comment	Medical Rape and Impregnate: How Friday ends up pregnant. She thinks she'll be carrying the embryo as a package, not as a bun in the oven.
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Friday / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Friday / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Effectively discussed when Ian Tormey (the ballistic shuttle pilot) discusses proposals to engineer Living Artifact pilots to replace humans. The conclusion he reaches is that the risk of obviously non-human beings becoming too alienated from humanity to be responsible for the lives of humans is too high - and Friday agrees.
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Friday / int_9d0f2549	type	Public Secret Message
Friday / int_9d0f2549	comment	Public Secret Message: In Vancouver, Friday is reading the personal ads in a newspaper and sees an ad that says "W.K.-Make your will. You have only a week to live. A.C.B." More than a week later she sees another ad in a Vicksburg, Mississippi newspaper that says "W.K.-Make your will. You have only ten days to live. A.C.B." Her traveling companion Georges realizes that the messages are a code - the first message meant "number seven" (1 week = 7 days), while the second message meant "number ten". What the various numbers signify is known only to the sender and recipient, making the code unbreakable.
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Friday / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Friday / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Although it's not apparent unless you look closely, this novel is set in the same continuity as The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress — Friday speaks with representatives of Free Luna on several occasions. It also contains nods to an earlier novella — Friday's boss is Hartley "Kettle Belly" Baldwin from Gulf, he has her read a document about the exploits of the protagonists of that work (who were some of her gene donors), and explicitly forbids her to emigrate to the planet where his society of Ãœbermensch eventually settled.
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Friday / int_a47340fe	type	One Riot, One Ranger
Friday / int_a47340fe	comment	One Riot, One Ranger: Referenced following an attack by a violent cult on a number of Scientologists and Hari Krishnas in an airport. Friday says it took nearly as many Mounties as there were cultists to stop them, as opposed to the usual ratio of One Mountie: One Riot.
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Friday / int_a5de0ab9	type	Polyamory
Friday / int_a5de0ab9	comment	Polyamory: Friday is a member of a group marriage as the story begins, gets kicked out of it because of Fantastic Racism, and enters another at the end.
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Friday / int_a814671b	type	N.G.O. Superpower
Friday / int_a814671b	comment	N.G.O. Superpower: Pretty much all the major corporations, with the Shipstone corporation being the apotheosis. A traditional nation gets mocked by a character for being so stupid as to go to war with DuPont. The nation quickly loses. Some major events turn out to be the result of political infighting within Shipstone all by itself.
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Friday / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Friday / int_aa8dcc21	comment	MegaCorp: The Shipstone corporation, which has expanded its de-facto monopoly over high-capacity power storage technology note It doesn't have a legal monopoly, but since it refuses to patent its technology and the Shipstones are apparently tamper-proof, nobody else is capable of building them. into effective control over the entire planet. Red Thursday and many other incidents turn out to be proxy warfare between factions within the company.
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Friday / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Friday / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Friday's reaction to being gang-raped as an interrogation technique is simple annoyance at the idea that she could be traumatized. As an artificial human she's been raised not to have any sexual hang-ups, and has even been trained to pretend to enjoy it in order to manipulate her captors.
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Friday / int_ac96a17c	type	InverseLawOfFertility
Friday / int_ac96a17c	comment	Inverse Law of Fertility: Friday is reversibly sterile but in the end wants nothing more than to raise a family.
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Friday / int_b0e81c37	type	A Simple Plan
Friday / int_b0e81c37	comment	A Simple Plan: Friday employs a number of "simple plans" in an effort to reach her Boss, as she is trained that simplest is best. These fail mainly because she underestimates the complexity of the situations she's dealing with.
Friday / int_b0e81c37	featureApplicability	1.0
Friday / int_b0e81c37	featureConfidence	1.0
Friday	hasFeature	Friday / int_b0e81c37
Friday / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Friday / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: There is no rule that the winner of the Golden State lottery has to be a resident. It's less "abuse" in this case as it is them being so culturally myopic that the idea never occurs to them.
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Friday / int_b1dde8fd	featureConfidence	1.0
Friday	hasFeature	Friday / int_b1dde8fd
Friday / int_b7c85c86	type	Free-Love Future
Friday / int_b7c85c86	comment	Free-Love Future: Friday's Boss advances the notion that intelligent, mentally healthy human beings may couple in any manner and with anyone they choose. For her part, Friday goes through several polygamous arrangements before finding one that suits her.
Friday / int_b7c85c86	featureApplicability	1.0
Friday / int_b7c85c86	featureConfidence	1.0
Friday	hasFeature	Friday / int_b7c85c86
Friday / int_bf1b02b	type	Fictional Currency
Friday / int_bf1b02b	comment	Fictional Currency: Each of the various Balkanized countries in North America has its own currency. Everyone seems to prefer Las Vegas "crowns" because they are backed by gold, and Friday is advised to always carry gold or gold-convertible currency because of its near-universal acceptance.
Friday / int_bf1b02b	featureApplicability	1.0
Friday / int_bf1b02b	featureConfidence	1.0
Friday	hasFeature	Friday / int_bf1b02b
Friday / int_cafdaf4e	type	Trust Password
Friday / int_cafdaf4e	comment	Trust Password: The "test tube/knife" couplet is adopted by APs as a code of mutual recognition.
Friday / int_cafdaf4e	featureApplicability	1.0
Friday / int_cafdaf4e	featureConfidence	1.0
Friday	hasFeature	Friday / int_cafdaf4e
Friday / int_d31da2e3	type	If It's You, It's Okay
Friday / int_d31da2e3	comment	If It's You, It's Okay: Friday feels this way toward Janet; near the end of the novel she also falls in love with Tilly/"Shizuko".
Friday / int_d31da2e3	featureApplicability	1.0
Friday / int_d31da2e3	featureConfidence	1.0
Friday	hasFeature	Friday / int_d31da2e3
Friday / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Friday / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: The novel cover paints Friday as Caucasian when her actual coloration is more American Indian. At least one version of the cover painting makes a much better attempt to get the colouring right. http://www.stevenhwilson.com/review-friday-by-robert-a-heinlein/, last picture.
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Friday / int_d7c3ba61	featureConfidence	1.0
Friday	hasFeature	Friday / int_d7c3ba61
Friday / int_de62575	type	Mix-and-Match Man
Friday / int_de62575	comment	Mix-and-Match Man: Friday was designed with the genes of Dr. Baldwin and many of his friends and fellow agents.
Friday / int_de62575	featureApplicability	1.0
Friday / int_de62575	featureConfidence	1.0
Friday	hasFeature	Friday / int_de62575
Friday / int_e2145533	type	Android Identifier
Friday / int_e2145533	comment	Android Identifier: Artificial People, genetically engineered lab-created humans, have lesser rights than "natural-born" humans and are required to have identifying tattoos. Friday herself, being a covert agent, had hers removed.
Friday / int_e2145533	featureApplicability	1.0
Friday / int_e2145533	featureConfidence	1.0
Friday	hasFeature	Friday / int_e2145533
Friday / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Friday / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: "Kettle Belly" Baldwin, of Jubal Harshaw. The two strongly share the "Wise Man" mentor archetype, while also being gruff old coots who are nevertheless fawned over by their female employees.
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Friday / int_e5421161	featureConfidence	1.0
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Friday / int_ee13f24f	type	Space Elevator
Friday / int_ee13f24f	comment	Space Elevator: Friday doesn't like riding "beanstalks": "A cable that goes up into the sky with nothing to hold it up smells too much of magic." It's presented as an irrational fear, as space elevators are stated to be safer than ships; the only loss of one in history was through sabotage.
Friday / int_ee13f24f	featureApplicability	1.0
Friday / int_ee13f24f	featureConfidence	1.0
Friday	hasFeature	Friday / int_ee13f24f
Friday / int_f46eebb	type	Betrayal by Inaction
Friday / int_f46eebb	comment	Betrayal by Inaction: "Uncle" Jim Prufit shows up to take Friday to Boss' farm. When they arrive she's attacked by an enemy ambush and Prufit doesn't warn her, he simply watches while they take her. She learns later that Prufit is The Mole.
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Friday / int_f46eebb	featureConfidence	1.0
Friday	hasFeature	Friday / int_f46eebb
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Friday / int_name	comment
Friday / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
Friday / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
Friday	hasFeature	Friday / int_name
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Friday	hasFeature	Ambiguously Brown / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Android Identifier / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Artificial Human / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Assassination Attempt / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Balkanize Me / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Black Box / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Breast Attack / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Butch Lesbian / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Checkpoint Charlie / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Compensating for Something / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	"Day of the Week" Name / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Designer Babies / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Dilating Door / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Disposing of a Body / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Dog Pile of Doom / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Even the Girls Want Her / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Exotic Extended Marriage / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Eyepatch of Power / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Fictional Currency / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Food Porn / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Hover Bot / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Human Subspecies / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	I Don't Pay You to Think / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Medical Rape and Impregnate / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Mistaken for Prostitute / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Mix-and-Match Man / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Mr. Smith / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	One Nation Under Copyright / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	One Riot, One Ranger / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Pragmatic Pansexuality / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Protagonist Title / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Public Secret Message / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Ray Gun / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Rich Genius / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Secret Underground Passage / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Some of My Best Friends Are X / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Space Elevator / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Surveillance Drone / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Treasure Chest Cavity / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Trial Balloon Question / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Truth Serums / int_bbd25dac
Friday	hasFeature	Will Talk for a Price / int_bbd25dac

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