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Manifold: Space

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58 feature instances
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Manifold: Space	label	Manifold: Space
Manifold: Space	page	ManifoldSpace
Manifold: Space	comment	A young lunar scientist, Nemoto, invites Reid Malenfant, champion of space colonization and organizer of a failed attempt to launch an asteroid mining enterprise, to the moon to show him mysterious sources of infrared she's discovered in the asteroid belt—incontrovertible proof of aliens at last. After all manner of signals and even a probe fail to elicit a response from the aliens, who come to be called Gaijin, Malenfant sets off for the source of the wave of aliens, the solar focus of Alpha Centauri. This is only the start of a journey across the galaxy, as he and others struggle to understand why signs of intelligent life are appearing all over the galaxy now and what happened to all the previous waves of colonization soon apparent even in humanity's own solar system, while humanity itself struggles to survive against draining resources, war, and destructive waves of alien colonists.The middle book of Stephen Baxter's Manifold trilogy, between Manifold: Time and Manifold: Origin.
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Manifold: Space / int_19211122	type	Feel No Pain
Manifold: Space / int_19211122	comment	Feel No Pain: One of the side effects of Saddle Point travelling is the Discontinuity, which damages the central reticular formation in the brain, causing the perception of pain to disappear.
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Manifold: Space / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Manifold: Space / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Individual Crackers are never seen, only their ships.
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Manifold: Space / int_1c7a7a52	type	The Slow Path
Manifold: Space / int_1c7a7a52	comment	The Slow Path: While other characters travel into the far future through use of the portals, experiencing no time subjectively, Nemoto persists in real time through combination of advanced medical treatments and sheer force of will, building up influence and manipulating humanity from the shadows.
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Manifold: Space / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Manifold: Space / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The human colonists of the Moon in the 4th millennium eat a soup made from the dissolved bones and flesh of the dead after one of their own dies.
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Manifold: Space / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
Manifold: Space / int_243cbd0d	comment	Dope Slap: Malenfant is repeatedly smacked on the head by superstrong Neanderthals for speaking at all. Turns out that nearly all of their language is sign, with a few super-special vocal words. The Neanderthals give him a sign-name that means "Stupid".
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Manifold: Space / int_2741a951	type	Merlin Sickness
Manifold: Space / int_2741a951	comment	Merlin Sickness: The sentient lunar flowers. They even proliferate backwards, with seed pods converging until eventually there's only one plant left. It's... odd.
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Manifold: Space / int_2754014	type	Invisible Aliens
Manifold: Space / int_2754014	comment	Invisible Aliens: Aliens do exist, but every few hundred million years, natural disasters on a galactic scale keep wiping the Galaxy clean before anyone can meet.
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Manifold: Space / int_2fcf9bbc	type	Gratuitous Foreign Language
Manifold: Space / int_2fcf9bbc	comment	Gratuitous Foreign Language: Japanese, Russian or Yolngu words tend to pop up every now and then in scenes involving native speakers of these languages.
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Manifold: Space / int_31c5e7fb	type	Starfish Aliens
Manifold: Space / int_31c5e7fb	comment	Starfish Aliens: Each Gaijin consists of a dodecahedral central unit, with limbs sprouting in a variety of configurations, apparently specialised. They appear mechanical, but they are in fact naturally occurring iron-based creatures. A Chaera resembles a translucent disc about a metre across, swimming in oxygen-blue fluid like a ray.
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Manifold: Space / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
Manifold: Space / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: The epilogue, a billion years after the last chapter, seems to suggest that the plan worked, and the next iteration of the Reboot cycle was postponed or avoided entirely, allowing life to flourish. Madeleine Meacher wakes up in a Gaijin habitat orbiting a Quasar, and realizes that if the Gaijin survived, maybe so did the humans. And even if they didn't life itself was free from the cycle and had spread to distant galaxies.
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Manifold: Space / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Manifold: Space / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: The massacre of the Cracker fleet over Mercury. The Crackers are obliterated by a volley of rocks propelled to many times Mercury's escape velocity by Nemoto's genetically engineered Moon flowers, with nobody even to fire back at, no way to avoid the rising storm of rock and dust. All that it takes for the humans are one thousand seconds and zero lives lost, with everyone being hidden safe underground.
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Manifold: Space / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Manifold: Space / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The story ends with Malenfant helping the Gaijin build a shield to prevent a gamma ray burst from sterilising a large part of the galaxy, although this project will not be completed and the calamity cannot be averted because it is too late. The point is that maybe, just maybe, after everything dies, and new life emerges, they'll see the sail, realise what they must do, and will be able to stop the cycle of destruction in time. This is punctuated with the Distant Finale Epilogue, which revealed they succeeded: the shield WORKED, and the cycle had been delayed or broken entirely. While they didn't make it through their Cycle, those who succeeded them are not only flourishing across many galaxies, but some remnants of those from the former Cycles may had also survived.
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Manifold: Space / int_4108bb3e	type	Doomed Hometown
Manifold: Space / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: Earth. The onset of another Ice Age results in the collapse of civilization, causing humanity to revert to Stone Age living standards.
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Manifold: Space / int_420080ed	type	Alien Sea
Manifold: Space / int_420080ed	comment	Alien Sea: The Gaijin homeworld has a sea made of yellow, bubbling iron carbonyl and nickel carbonyl.
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Manifold: Space / int_450c5a85	type	Alternate Continuity
Manifold: Space / int_450c5a85	comment	Alternate Continuity: To the other books in the Manifold series.
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Manifold: Space / int_470b73a7	type	Recursive Precursors
Manifold: Space / int_470b73a7	comment	Recursive Precursors: Every few hundred million years there's a gamma ray burst powerful enough, or well-directed enough, to wipe the whole of the Galaxy clean.
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Manifold: Space / int_47e9e5c6	type	Smart People Know Latin
Manifold: Space / int_47e9e5c6	comment	Smart People Know Latin: Latin is the language used for communication between humans and Gaijin.
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Manifold: Space / int_4aafd3c8	type	Fling a Light into the Future
Manifold: Space / int_4aafd3c8	comment	Fling a Light into the Future: At the end of the book, a coalition of aliens (including the Gaijin) are working on a mammoth solar sail designed to prevent two neutron stars from colliding and sterilizing the galaxy... except there's another collision—too late to prevent—that's going to occur first, killing the current generation. And the sail they're working on is leftover from a previous cycle.
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Manifold: Space / int_4abc2ca9	type	Virtual Ghost
Manifold: Space / int_4abc2ca9	comment	Virtual Ghost: The limited-sentience projection of Nemoto, which leads to a What Measure Is a Non-Human? moment.
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Manifold: Space / int_4b67d20a	type	Fossil Revival
Manifold: Space / int_4b67d20a	comment	Fossil Revival: One of the Gaijin's experiments following their arrival on Earth is the revival of extinct animals.
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Manifold: Space / int_5456f857	type	Too Important to Walk
Manifold: Space / int_5456f857	comment	Too Important to Walk: Mtesa is carried around on a throne by a group of labourers.
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Manifold: Space / int_56ade6eb	type	Sapient Eat Sapient
Manifold: Space / int_56ade6eb	comment	Sapient Eat Sapient: The reconstructed Homo erectus of the 33rd century don't really care if the prey they are hunting are reconstructed australopithecines or Homo habilis.
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Manifold: Space / int_59f47557	type	Vicious Cycle
Manifold: Space / int_59f47557	comment	Vicious Cycle: the Reboot.
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Manifold: Space / int_5c36f1df	type	Future Primitive
Manifold: Space / int_5c36f1df	comment	Future Primitive: By 2240, following the onset of another Ice Age, the humans of Earth have reverted to a primitive existence like in the Stone Age.
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Manifold: Space / int_5fc516bf	type	Mechanical Lifeforms
Manifold: Space / int_5fc516bf	comment	Mechanical Lifeforms: The Gaijin might count, being iron-based lifeforms, though they were not built but evolved naturally by themselves.
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Manifold: Space / int_6136e02f	type	Brain Food
Manifold: Space / int_6136e02f	comment	Brain Food: The reconstructed Homo erectus Magassa is seen eating the brain of his H. habilis prey.
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Manifold: Space / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Manifold: Space / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: The reason for which the Waganda are able to operate a nuclear fission reactor, despite their otherwise mediocre tech.
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Manifold: Space / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Manifold: Space / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: At the end of the book, Malenfant sacrifices his very humanity—becoming some sort of pain-wracked hivemind program getting refreshed over and over again—in order to supervise the construction of the solar sail over millions of years.
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Manifold: Space / int_67f26dcc	type	Planet of Hats
Manifold: Space / int_67f26dcc	comment	Planet of Hats: Humans are the only species able to devote themselves entirely to an idea (i.e. have faith), which becomes critical by the end of the book.
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Manifold: Space / int_6ea3206	type	Numbered Homeworld
Manifold: Space / int_6ea3206	comment	Numbered Homeworld: The Gaijin refer to their homeworld as Zero-zero-zero-zero and use a fluid, location-descriptive naming system for all other systems they expand to, which suits their mechanical nature.
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Manifold: Space / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Manifold: Space / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Where is everybody?"
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Manifold: Space / int_7568eb84	type	Human Subspecies
Manifold: Space / int_7568eb84	comment	Human Subspecies: The Flips of the oceans of Triton in 3793 AD are dolphin-like posthuman creatures descended from human colonists who moved off the land and settled in the oceans.
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Manifold: Space / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
Manifold: Space / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: Despite their advanced and sophisticated tech (they manage to, among others, defeat the Gaijin colony in the Solar System and make stars go nova), the Crackers are ultimately defeated by humans with nothing more than rocket-propelled rocks.
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Manifold: Space / int_7f67e11	type	The Night That Never Ends
Manifold: Space / int_7f67e11	comment	The Night That Never Ends: Malenfant comes upon such a planet in his journey, where the indigenous lifeforms live off the geothermal heat in oceans of liquid water under the lightless sky.
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Manifold: Space / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Manifold: Space / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Madeleine Meacher finds lichen-like creatures inhabiting a burster, where hydrogen from its companion star fuses when it hits the neutron star, wiping out everything on the surface, forcing the creatures to survive through 'spores' deposited under the surface and preventing them from achieving complexity. After her decision to disrupt the hydrogen flow and stop the fusion fires, the creatures surge to new parts of the world... only to die out later, as the fusion cycle is seemingly necessary to their growth in some way the humans can't understand.
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Manifold: Space / int_8134db87	type	Mechanical Evolution
Manifold: Space / int_8134db87	comment	Mechanical Evolution: The Gaijin are subject to this, with errors creeping in with each replication. A visit to their homeworld confirms that they were never built by anyone else but really did naturally evolve from scratch in an exotic iron-based ecology.
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Manifold: Space / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Manifold: Space / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Mtesa, the Kabaka of Waganda, has a Homo erectus concubine.
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Manifold: Space / int_8618825d	type	Portal Network
Manifold: Space / int_8618825d	comment	Portal Network: The Saddle Point network. Precursors scattered portals at solar focus points throughout the galaxy that use quantum teleportation, which limits travel speed (to lightspeed) and total number of uses.
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Manifold: Space / int_86e2d67b	type	Compound-Interest Time Travel Gambit
Manifold: Space / int_86e2d67b	comment	Compound-Interest Time Travel Gambit: Used by interstellar travelers, who are frozen in time while traveling through the portal network. It works at first, but laws are eventually passed and assets seized, leaving the travelers flat broke when they return.
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Manifold: Space / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
Manifold: Space / int_8b93a168	comment	Macross Missile Massacre: Nemoto seeds Mercury with re-engineered lunar flowers, which fire rocket-propelled seed pods. Once the entire Cracker fleet is in orbit around the planet, they simultaneously fire all pods into the sky, causing the obliteration of the entire fleet.
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Manifold: Space / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
Manifold: Space / int_90965cc7	comment	Hive Mind: The Gaijin have little in the way of self and frequently temporarily merge together for debates.
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Manifold: Space / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Manifold: Space / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: X-3, with all complex life in the galaxy periodically sterilized by the massive bursts of radiation from colliding neutron stars.
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Manifold: Space / int_92a61707	type	The Speechless
Manifold: Space / int_92a61707	comment	The Speechless: The Neanderthals cannot speak due to their mouth structure.
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Manifold: Space / int_9323741	type	Planet Looters
Manifold: Space / int_9323741	comment	Planet Looters: The galaxy has been picked over by all kinds of looters many times over. Venus, for instance, used to be a hospitable place until an acid-based species spun down the planet, triggered a runaway greenhouse reaction to generate acid to farm, and broke up Venus's moon to make more ships.
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Manifold: Space / int_961c30e5	type	Teleportation
Manifold: Space / int_961c30e5	comment	Teleportation: How the Saddle Point gateways work.
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Manifold: Space / int_977d4b19	type	Tree Vessel
Manifold: Space / int_977d4b19	comment	Tree Vessel: The genetically-engineered Trees, used by a group of human colonists of 3256 AD as ports, observation platforms and resorts. The bulk of a Tree is a green ball of branches and leaves, while the trunk is hollowed out and sealed with resin to house humans. Each Tree loops around Earth in its inclined circular orbit, maintaining its altitude with puffs of waste gas.
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Manifold: Space / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Manifold: Space / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Nemoto usually communicates with space travelers through holographic projections. One, however, is different—an advanced "limited-sentience projection", basically a copy of Nemoto's personality in a holographic "body". The characters, who have been away for subjective centuries due to relativity, have to ask what a "limited-sentience projection" is. Virtual Nemoto explains, bringing the concept into her awareness, then has just enough time to look horrified before her time expires and she evaporates into unbound light.
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Manifold: Space / int_a9b3c8ea	type	Orion Drive
Manifold: Space / int_a9b3c8ea	comment	Orion Drive: How Malenfant reaches the portal in our solar system.
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Manifold: Space / int_ac18c727	type	Projected Man
Manifold: Space / int_ac18c727	comment	Projected Man - See Virtual Ghost.
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Manifold: Space / int_ad4578de	type	Hollow World
Manifold: Space / int_ad4578de	comment	Hollow World: The newly-discovered moonlet of Venus, which was dug out by aliens and thrown into orbit.
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Manifold: Space / int_b3eecaae	type	Colony Drop
Manifold: Space / int_b3eecaae	comment	Colony Drop: Nemoto's plan to slam Neptune's satellite Nereid with another moon, Triton, to melt the ice so the human colonists can make use of the liquid water and the Gaijin can't use the materials for their projects.
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Manifold: Space / int_c960826	type	Supporting Protagonist
Manifold: Space / int_c960826	comment	Supporting Protagonist: Despite being the protagonist, Reid Malenfant doesn't really have much to do here besides endure a tour of the universe conducted by the Gaijin. Only towards the end of the book, Malenfant actually does get the chance to act.
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Manifold: Space / int_d36b9a69	type	Precious Photo
Manifold: Space / int_d36b9a69	comment	Precious Photo: Malenfant keeps a photo of his wife Emma Stoney (who has already died before the start of the book in this Alternate Continuity) throughout his travels during the entire story.
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Manifold: Space / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: For the time-shifted star travellers. While they can return to Earth if they wished, it'll be an Earth drastically changed, with their loved ones all dead, and for them home no longer exists.
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Manifold: Space / int_dd8deee1	comment	Xenofiction: The short segments from the perspective of a lunar flower. The latter half of the last chapter, which is told from the POV of Reid Malenfant after he gives up his humanity, might also count.
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Manifold: Space / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Nemoto keeps herself alive with advanced medical treatments for well over a thousand years, so she can deal with the problem of the alien Gaijin (and whoever the Gaijin are fighting). She doesn't seem to enjoy it much, and becomes extremely crotchety — but she's too much of a control freak to leave things in anyone else's hands.
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Manifold: Space / int_f13a0451	comment	Suicide Attack: Pierre de Bonneville takes his revenge on his captors by sabotaging the coolant system of the Engine of Kimera (which is actually a nuclear reactor), causing a catastrophic nuclear accident in the process. No points for guessing if he survives or not.
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