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Light	comment	Light is a science fiction novel by former New Wave writer M. John Harrison, first published in 2002.It centers around three main characters connected to the Kefahuchi Tract and its secrets. Michael Kearney is a mathematician in London, 1999, on his way to discovering a defining piece of FTL Travel; he’s also a serial killer running from a shadowy creature he calls the Shrander. Seria Mau Genlicher is a girl who became a spaceship in the space-faring future; recently she got her hands on a mysterious box that could be the key to being human again. Ed Chianese is a junkie getting tossed into transient relationships, but he keeps encountering a woman named Madame Shen who will show him the future.Light was succeeded in 2008 by a sort-of sequel, Nova Swing. It takes place in the same universe, but only has one shared character, Liv Hula.Not to be confused with the book of the Gone series.
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Light / int_166e33f3	type	Little Miss Badass
Light / int_166e33f3	comment	Little Miss Badass: Seria Mau may be petty and lonely and bitter, but she does have some serious armaments. And an airlock.
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Light / int_1c662a5d	type	LongLostSibling
Light / int_1c662a5d	comment	Long Lost Sibling: Ed and Seria Mau.
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Light / int_1ee0948e	type	Artificial Human
Light / int_1ee0948e	comment	Artificial Human: The shadow operators create one when they make a cultivar for Seria Mau to use, though it doesn’t do anything.
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Light / int_204a1207	type	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place
Light / int_204a1207	comment	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: The Kefahuchi Tract, where the K-tech comes from.
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Light / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Light / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: On the surface, Ed seems like a stoner only interested in sex and tweaking, but it turns it out he was an ace pilot before he got sucked into the drugs. Also, one could read Seria Mau this way, as she seems either petty or sociopathic or both at first, but you realize that even if she can’t shake these qualities, she does have a good reason.
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Light / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Light / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Seria Mau wanted to be a spaceship, and escape being human. Now, her body is crippled and unable to feel, locked in a tank – but she does indeed integrate as much as is humanly possible with a ship.
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Light / int_3da6b7c8	type	Comm Links
Light / int_3da6b7c8	comment	Comm Links: A variation occurs with fetches, which can be equated with hologram-telephones.
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Light / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Light / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Seria Mau (and other K-pilots) can’t move, has numerous broken-and-healed-wrong bones, is blind physically but can see via the ship’s cameras, is wired with IVs, is suspended in a tank full of liquid like warm saliva, is wrinkled and shrunken, and still has human needs like being touched, but can’t ever touch anyone again.
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Light / int_540eb459	type	The Killer Becomes the Killed
Light / int_540eb459	comment	The Killer Becomes the Killed: Kearney finally meets his end when the Shrander abducts him.
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Light / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
Light / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: Subverted; cats are the mascots of the Light ‘verse and generally portrayed in a neutral-to-good light.
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Light / int_5d4359fe	type	No Blood for Phlebotinum
Light / int_5d4359fe	comment	No Blood for Phlebotinum: Everyone is fighting each other over the last of the K-tech / new planet-full of it.
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Light / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
Light / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: An interpretation of Kearney’s path... if you didn’t have the other two to tie it up.
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Light / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Light / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: “Sparks in everything”, “Wherever you look, you find” / “There’s always more after that”, and the Shrander’s anagram alternate names.
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Light / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Light / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Shrander trying to get in touch with Michael Kearney is what caused Kearney's descent into madness.
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Light / int_7ffca8c4	type	Immortality Begins at Twenty
Light / int_7ffca8c4	comment	Immortality Begins at Twenty: Immortality means being a forever-broken and crippled thirteen-year-old in a fishtank.
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Light / int_89baee12	type	Space Opera
Light / int_89baee12	comment	Space Opera: Subverted, in that there isn’t an epically-big love story, are few space battles, let alone epic ones, and the technology drastically changes how humanity operates. In other words, adheres strongly to the cynical side of the Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism.
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Light / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Light / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Subverted; All K-pilots are excellent at their jobs, which are all military-based and involve killing, and the indoctrination process that makes them K-pilots leaves them broken and perennially thirteen, without the ability to grow up.
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Light / int_9c1d1e31	type	Black Box
Light / int_9c1d1e31	comment	Black Box: The Dr. Haends box seems to be useless and simply a MacGuffin to fight over, but it turns out it’s part of the Shrander, and becomes the tool for Seria Mau’s transformation.
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Light / int_9de3b377	type	Unrealistic Black Hole
Light / int_9de3b377	comment	Unrealistic Black Hole: Averted— The K Culture hid a cache of their technology in a location nearly impossible to reach, except via a wormhole they built for that purpose. The wormhole is anchored very near the Radio RX-1 black hole, and is powered by it, but the wormhole is at least survivable (only barely, and only under optimal circumstances) whereas the black hole would simply crush you into nothing.
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Light / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Light / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Ed used to fly dipships, and "flew all of them, except for one." Guess what he flies at the end?
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Light / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Light / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Kearney thinks this is why he killed all those women, but the Shrander tears it down by saying it never kept her away in the first place. So it ends up that Kearney was simply deluding himself.
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Light / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Light / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: A variation occurs, as it is actually Ed and Seria Mau’s father, not mother.
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Light / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Light / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: "Ooh, I’ve been abused by my father, let’s run away and join the military!" "Ooh, my sister left and broke my home even more, let’s run away and become a rebel!"
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Light / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Light / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Kearney’s descriptions of the Shrander stalking him, and the shadows he sees (but never a full, coherent form).
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Light / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Light / int_d02a0c91	comment	There Are No Coincidences: Notice how the Shrander, Sandra Shen, and Dr. Haends all have the same letters in their names? Not a coincidence. Subverted in that you think Kearney’s dice will be important, but the Shrander just comments that it happened to keep them and they weren’t a particularly powerful item, just pieces from an ancient game.
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Light / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Light / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: K-pilots can never be human again, and instead they live in limbo between being human and being a machine, without much good of either. Subverted in a way when the Shrander gives Seria Mau the ability to shapeshift into anything she wants.
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Light / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
Light / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: What all the K-ships are, but especially Seria Mau.
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Light / int_fc52510	type	Brain Uploading
Light / int_fc52510	comment	Brain Uploading: Pairs with Artificial Human somewhat, yielding the cultivars. Annie Glyph chooses this route after she helps Ed get rid of Bella Cray, turning herself from the heavily-muscled rickshaw girl into the petite blonde Mona. (Though, one never gets a description of how one makes a cultivar, so it could equally be a form of plastic surgery instead.)
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Light / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Light / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Serial killer Kearney gets one when he realizes that Anna has always been there for him and that he might really love her. Also, when he actually does try to have proper intercourse with her (which is not as weird as it sounds).
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