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Manifold: Origin

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Manifold: Origin	comment	In the year 2015, a red moon appears in the Earth’s orbit: brooding, multitextured, beautiful and alive. Catastrophe follows. While coastlands flood by the new gravitational forces, millions of people die. Scientists scramble desperately to understand what is on the big red moon and how it got there. And NASA astronaut Reid Malenfant, and his wife Emma, are hurtling through the African sky in a training jet, when everything changes forever.For Malenfant and Emma, a reckless flight in a T-38 above the sun-baked continent sends them colliding with a great wheel in the sky. Now Emma has awakened in a strange, Earthlike world, among physically powerful, primitive creatures who share humankind’s features and desires but lack the human mind. And Reid Malenfant is back in Texas, reliving the plane crash, looking up at the red moon, and knowing in his heart that Emma is there.Emma is there, beginning a journey of survival that is both horrific and fascinating, utterly familiar and totally beyond comprehension. Malenfant, teamed with a Japanese scientist named Nemoto, will get his chance to rescue his wife. But neither can foresee the extraordinary adventures that await them. Neither can imagine the small and immense evolutionary secrets cloaked in the atmosphere of the red moon, or guess at how a vast, living, tightly woven cosmos has shaped our planet as we know it–and how it will shape it again.The final book of Stephen Baxter's Manifold trilogy, preceded by Manifold: Time and Manifold: Space.
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Manifold: Origin / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
Manifold: Origin / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: The Zealots make extensive of whipping to break their Runner and Ham slaves.
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Manifold: Origin / int_15fc9fb	type	Our Elves Are Different
Manifold: Origin / int_15fc9fb	comment	Our Elves Are Different: The 'Elf-folk' (which resemble australopithecines) of the Red Moon are only three feet high, with faces like apes, but they walk upright and have feet like humans. Their preferred food is other hominids and they often eat the meat directly from the still-living prey in an excessively brutal way. The story of Shadow, the Elf protagonist, in particular is a calvary of pain, featuring rape, infanticide, murder, cannibalism, injury, disease, and madness. It seems Baxter has based his ‘Elf’ behaviour on the worst aspects of the common chimpanzee.
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Manifold: Origin / int_1b451dbd	type	No-Dialogue Episode
Manifold: Origin / int_1b451dbd	comment	No-Dialogue Episode: Shadow's narrative is completely free of dialogue, as it is implied the Elves don't actually have a spoken language.
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Manifold: Origin / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Manifold: Origin / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: One common method of killing prey by the Elf-folk involves grabbing the prey, pulling the limbs off, then eating them when they are still alive and after they die. It's not hugely extended torture, which they have neither the infrastructure nor patience for, but there does seem to be a slight extension in the period of suffering beyond the desire to consume the flesh.
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Manifold: Origin / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Manifold: Origin / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Near the end of the book, Shadow gleefully has her tribe slaughter and eat the fellow Elves of her tribe of birth.
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Manifold: Origin / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
Manifold: Origin / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: The short story Grey Earth (printed in the collection Phase Space), which takes place many decades after the end of Origin, and tells about Nemoto's final years living with Mary and the rest of the Neanderthals on the Grey Earth, after they had been returned there in the epilogue of the novel.
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Manifold: Origin / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
Manifold: Origin / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: The last time Emma sees him, Maxie, a modern human boy stranded on the Red Moon, comes to live with the Runners as one of them, and becomes all but assimilated by the end of the book.
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Manifold: Origin / int_450c5a85	type	Alternate Continuity
Manifold: Origin / int_450c5a85	comment	Alternate Continuity: To the other books in the Manifold series.
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Manifold: Origin / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Manifold: Origin / int_4a02a75e	comment	The Theocracy: The Zealots are organised around domination by a lunatic who believes he's God's sole representative. He demands submission to his personal authority and exclusive dogma, backed by threat of direct physical force.
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Manifold: Origin / int_4b4f6a2f	type	Mood-Swinger
Manifold: Origin / int_4b4f6a2f	comment	Mood-Swinger: Praisegod Michael is able to swing from affable politeness to temper tantrum within seconds for no real reason.
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Manifold: Origin / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Manifold: Origin / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Renemenagota is killed by a targeted application of the Air Wall technology. This is just a use of a tool, not a dedicated weapon, as the Daemons have had no wars for a million years.
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Manifold: Origin / int_56807288	type	City Planet
Manifold: Origin / int_56807288	comment	City Planet: Each Daemon farm extends from the core of the planet to the sky. These farms cover the entire surface of the planet, showing the Daemons’ mastery of genetic and ecological engineering.
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Manifold: Origin / int_56ade6eb	type	Sapient Eat Sapient
Manifold: Origin / int_56ade6eb	comment	Sapient Eat Sapient: The preferred prey of the Elf-folk are other hominins, although most hominin species on the Red Moon (except Homo sapiens and the herbivorous Nutcracker-folk) eat each other in various degrees of frequency.
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Manifold: Origin / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
Manifold: Origin / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": On the Red Moon we have such things as 'Runners' (Homo erectus), 'Elf-folk' (some species of Australopithecus or Ardipithecus), 'Nutcracker-folk' (Paranthropus boisei) and 'Hams' (Neanderthals), though it’s possible that Baxter intends the Elves and Nutcracker-men to be species that never lived on Earth.
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Manifold: Origin / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
Manifold: Origin / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Greg Mayer, killed unceremoniously by a Runner near the beginning of the book, whose death emphasises on the raw, brutal life on the Red Moon.
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Manifold: Origin / int_64713b04	type	Pedophile Priest
Manifold: Origin / int_64713b04	comment	Pedophile Priest: It is implied that Praisegod Michael's Neanderthal boy companion is also his bed warmer.
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Manifold: Origin / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
Manifold: Origin / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: Shadow, towards the end of the story, because of the fungal growths that disfigure her face.
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Manifold: Origin / int_6cdc784f	type	You No Take Candle
Manifold: Origin / int_6cdc784f	comment	You No Take Candle: Runners can speak some English, but the grammar is still broken. The Daemons (no relation) hear something similar when humans try to speak their language, though it's poorly represented since Most Writers Are Human.
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Manifold: Origin / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Manifold: Origin / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Hugh McCann mentions that one of his men gave himself to the Elf-folk once he learnt that he cannot go home again.
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Manifold: Origin / int_771b9373	type	We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future
Manifold: Origin / int_771b9373	comment	We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future: Cancer is apparently curable via a regiment of pills, similar to taking a round of antibiotics.
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Manifold: Origin / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Manifold: Origin / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: The Elf-folk Shadow is raped by her own brother Claw.
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Manifold: Origin / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
Manifold: Origin / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: Towards outsiders, the Zealots practice slavery under close monitoring and coercion, with no real boons granted except being allowed to survive.
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Manifold: Origin / int_8f900ccd	type	Overly Long Name
Manifold: Origin / int_8f900ccd	comment	Overly Long Name: Manekatopokanemahedo's full name consists of nearly fifty thousand syllables, one added for every generation.
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Manifold: Origin / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Manifold: Origin / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: The sections told from the POV of the Runners are composed of extremely short sentence fragments.
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Manifold: Origin / int_961c30e5	type	Teleportation
Manifold: Origin / int_961c30e5	comment	Teleportation: The Daemon teleportation process, known as 'Mapping'.
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Manifold: Origin / int_9a8c7632	type	Dumb Is Good
Manifold: Origin / int_9a8c7632	comment	Dumb Is Good: The herbivorous Nutcracker-folk, the least intelligent and the most content, pacific, unthreatened of the hominins on the Red Moon.
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Manifold: Origin / int_9ffbadef	type	Fantastic Naming Convention
Manifold: Origin / int_9ffbadef	comment	Fantastic Naming Convention: Each Daemon's name consists of one syllable more than her mother's name, two more than her grandmother's, one added for each generation of the lineage, back from the beginning.
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Manifold: Origin / int_a132a4fe	type	Where I Was Born and Razed
Manifold: Origin / int_a132a4fe	comment	Where I Was Born and Razed: Near the end of the story, Shadow, after being ostracised from her tribe of birth, leads another tribe to slaughter everyone.
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Manifold: Origin / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
Manifold: Origin / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Genetically engineered Workers in their bodies let the Daemons heal themselves very quickly.
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Manifold: Origin / int_a9c7258a	type	Absent Aliens
Manifold: Origin / int_a9c7258a	comment	Absent Aliens: Humans are the only intelligent species in this universe, but the book is set in a multiverse where each individual universe contains an intelligent species.
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Manifold: Origin / int_ae6adc36	type	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming
Manifold: Origin / int_ae6adc36	comment	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: The Neanderthals on the Red Moon all have Biblical names, which they adopted from the Puritan-like Zealots.
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Manifold: Origin / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
Manifold: Origin / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Praisegod Michael is an egomaniac who seeks to become a planetary conqueror that brings the word of God to the 'subhumans' of the Red Moon, but he can't achieve anything worthwhile without the aid of his Daemon advisor Renemenagota, and his downfall comes from the Neanderthal boy whom he keeps as a sex slave.
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Manifold: Origin / int_c6ae3121	type	Modern Stasis
Manifold: Origin / int_c6ae3121	comment	Modern Stasis: Daemon society is advanced but fairly inward looking and stagnant. One individual can singlehandedly design a space program to go to the moon, but apparently they'd never bothered to do this before strange events happened.
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Manifold: Origin / int_c8bea4ec	type	My Species Doth Protest Too Much
Manifold: Origin / int_c8bea4ec	comment	My Species Doth Protest Too Much: When several of the peaceful Daemons go off planet and interacted with more primitive and savage species, Renemenagota goes completely off the bend, embracing violence for its own sake, and planning an ambitious coup over her species, though she was foiled.
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Manifold: Origin / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Manifold: Origin / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: The fate of Hugh McCann's expedition team to the Red Moon, after it left their home universe. And later of Emma, Malenfant, Nemoto and Manekato's group, after the Red Moon leaves their universes as well.
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Manifold: Origin / int_dd8deee1	type	Xenofiction
Manifold: Origin / int_dd8deee1	comment	Xenofiction: Some sections told from the POV of non-human hominids might count.
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Manifold: Origin / int_e329a741	type	Stock Animal Diet
Manifold: Origin / int_e329a741	comment	Stock Animal Diet: When the advanced hominid "Daemons" (who resemble gorillas) want to reward the human scientist Nemoto, they try offering her a banana. She is understandably insulted.
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Manifold: Origin / int_e5e07b2d	type	You Cannot Grasp the True Form
Manifold: Origin / int_e5e07b2d	comment	You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Despite being able to make one jump with the World Engine, the Daemons still can't comprehend it, like how the Neanderthals couldn't understand or see clearly the existence of a NASA spaceship, and how Malenfant couldn't understand or see clearly the patterns from the Daemons' Mapping. The Daemons themselves have the same problem with this trinket of Old One technology.
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Manifold: Origin / int_fa686f29	type	Weird Moon
Manifold: Origin / int_fa686f29	comment	Weird Moon: The book starts with the replacement of our familiar moon with a new one, much larger, and with life on it. The result of replacing our little dead moon with the bigger live Red Moon is, among other things, new and much larger tides which devastate many coastal areas all over the world.
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Manifold: Origin / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Manifold: Origin / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Praisegod Michael is ultimately killed by his Neanderthal sex slave.
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Manifold: Origin / int_fe1b2e75	type	Bigger on the Inside
Manifold: Origin / int_fe1b2e75	comment	Bigger on the Inside: There's a chamber in the middle of the Red Moon too large to fit inside it (at least not without severely diminishing its gravity), indicating it's a type of transdimensional engineering.
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