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Sister Alice

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Sister Alice is a Space Opera / Science Fantasy novel by Robert Reed, published in 2003. The novel is broken up into five "books" in chronological order, contained in the paperback or hardback book.
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HeavyWorlder
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Heavy Worlder: One of the many subspecies of humanity.
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Big Dumb Object
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Big Dumb Object: The Core is surrounded by uncountable billions of herded asteroids and dust, to form a protective cloak around the Core, shielding the rimward worlds from the radiation pouring out.
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Dirty Coward
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Dirty Coward: Xo Nuyen
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Super-Intelligence
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Super-Intelligence: Elder Family members augment their intelligence with quantum computers built into their talents - The more talents a character possesses, the faster they think.
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Earth Is the Center of the Universe
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Earth Is the Center of the Universe: Because the Families hold large estates on Earth, it's effectively the most important planet in the galaxy.
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Terraform
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Terra Form: The Chamberlain's specialty. Gas giants have their core mined out to build lighter-than-air continents which drift inside the atmosphere, dyson spheres are built around brown dwarfs, and asteroids are cored out to make private estates for the wealth.
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Hero with Bad Publicity
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Hero with Bad Publicity: Ord is demonized by the "untainted" Families.
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Deity of Human Origin
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Deity of Human Origin: Elder Brothers and Sisters of the Great Families posses god-like powers, capable of causing stars to go nova, creating new elements, and erasing planets from existence.
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Kick the Dog
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Kick the Dog: Ravleen activates the anti-matter traps under the Earth's crust out of sheer hatred for Ord, killing all life on the planet.
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Boldly Coming
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Boldly Coming: Lyman, Ord's older brother, really gets around with the Human Subspecies. In one embarrassing incident, Ord finds him trying to get it on with a dolphin-like human adapted for deep-sea life.
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Enemy Mine
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Enemy Mine: Ravleen attempts to kill both Ord and the Nuyens, because the Nuyens are attempting to kill Ord themselves; Ravleen is desperate to torture Ord on her lonesome.
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The Milky Way Is the Only Way
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The Milky Way Is the Only Way: Averted. While there are no colonies in the other galaxies due to the massive travel time needed to reach them, Families have sent diplomatic and scientific missions composed of high-ranking Brothers and Sisters to Andromeda to discover new forms of life.
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Really 700 Years Old
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Really 700 Years Old: Family members look anywhere from 20 to 50 years old, despite being effectively immortal.
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Heel–Face Turn
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Heel–Face Turn: After realizing that the Earth's death was the fault of his family, Xo begins assisting Ord.
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Star Killing
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Star Killing: Ravleen blows up a binary star to use it as a boost for her Solar Sail - the stars going nova purges life within a hundred light years.
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Human Subspecies
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Human Subspecies: While the Families remain baseline, there are a huge variety of genetically modified humans; cold-blooded lizard folk, cetacean-esque, et cetera.
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We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future
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We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future:
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Brother–Sister Incest
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Brother–Sister Incest: Brother Perfect was married to Sister Alice, several times in secret - despite its illegality under the first Chamberlain's laws. Ord is thoroughly Squicked out by this.
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Villain with Good Publicity
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Villain with Good Publicity: The Nuyens. When Ravleen kills the Earth and chases after Ord in Baby's Fire, they publish it as both Ravleen and Ord killing the Earth, and fleeing together as they are lovers.
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Space Amish
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Space Amish: Brother Perfect. Despite his godlike powers, he lives like an hunter-gatherer from the Ice Age. He doesn't repair his wounds, or use his abilities to kill his food or warm himself - he simply uses a spear and a handmade fur jacket. He considers the Ice Age to be humanity's golden age
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Time Dilation
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Time Dilation: During Perfect and Ord's flight to Alice's dyson object, at least 10,000 years go by in the rest of the Milky Way, as Ord was traveling so fast that time slowed down - and by this point, thousands of worlds are dying from war and the Galactic Core explosion
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Apocalypse How
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Apocalypse How: Coreward systems have broken out in apocalyptic wars over starships and resources as the Core explosion races towards them.
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Subspace Ansible
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Subspace Ansible: FTL communication is present and relatively easy, but FTL travel itself is completely impossible.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Ravleen Sanchex
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Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!
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Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Elder Family members are often quite rude and commanding when dealing with younger Brothers and Sisters.
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Proud Warrior Race: The Sanchex Family; during the Great Wars, they were the great commanders. In the Great Peace, being a mighty warrior is obviously not a reliable profession, so they turn their talents to exploration.
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Time Abyss
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Time Abyss: Brother Perfect; he is at least ten million years old.
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Creative Sterility
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Creative Sterility: The self-perpetrating hat of the Nuyen Great Family; they pride themselves on being very un-creative.
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Physical God
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Physical God: By this point, Ord has become one of the most powerful entities in the galaxy, after acquiring Sister Alice's talents. He uses his talents to stave off galactic war.
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Face–Heel Turn
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Face–Heel Turn: Avrem Chamberlain betrays Ord to try and force Ord to surrender by threatening to activate the anti-matter bombs under the Earth
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Sapient Ship
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Sapient Ship: Elder Family members are essential enormous star ships; their talents are built up until they weigh more than a moon, which forms the basis of their body and mind. Their fleshy bodies are mostly for tradition.
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Dyson Sphere
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Dyson Sphere: One of the varieties of Big Dumb Objects built by the Families.
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Came Back Wrong
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Came Back Wrong: Ian Chamberlain; while it was originally believed that he died long ago saving a civilian ship, his talents survived, and began the universe umbilical experiment on their own. When the other family members found the talents, they gave Ian's memories to the talents. However, it's shown that he isn't a very moral person after that.
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Aerith and Bob
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Aerith and Bob: Older Family members have more common names, such as the first Chamberlain, Ian, or the 12th Chamberlain, Alice. Younger Family members have more odd names, such as Ord, Xo, Ravleen, or Lyman.
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Really Gets Around
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Really Gets Around: Lyman
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Snowball Fight
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Snowball Fight: Ritualized, Serious Business Snowball wars, call Snowars, are set up between two teams composed of a smattering of very young Great Family members, intended to make it easier for different Family members to cooperate at a young age. Two teams alternate between defending and attacking a fort made of ice, using microchines fired from cannons to heat up the fort walls and break though. Snow is compacted and shoved into pneumatic, double-barreled rifles which can cause grievous damage, and snow is fired from pneumatic cannons capable of killing the contestants. However, because of the Healing Factor and general hard-to-killness of humanity, it's rare for anyone to be more than annoyed or out of action for more than a few days when their skull is crushed or spine broken.
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Averted with distances: even with the godlike powers of high ranking Great Family members, they still are limited to traveling below the speed of light; one character laments that it would take tens of thousands of years to gather all the members of a Family at one point due to travel time. Averted with time: when Ord looks at an ancient, million year old picture of the mountains surrounding the Chamberlain estate, he notes how the mountains have become much smoother and smaller since then.
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The Chessmaster
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The Chessmaster: Sister Alice. When Ord enters the universe's umbilical to attempt to shut down the machinery, he theorizes that Alice uses the wormhole linked to the past to send an infinite amount of young Chamberlains into their own, private universes where they build a new reality.
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Despair Event Horizon
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Despair Event Horizon: Even after Ord presents all his evidence that the universe experiment will result in catastrophe, the elders almost unanimously decide to continue with altered parameters.
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The Clan
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The Clan: The Great Families.
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Society of Immortals
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Society of Immortals: Almost all sentient beings united under the Great Families are effectively immortal.
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Pet Monstrosity
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Pet Monstrosity: Ord has about a dozen intelligent bears as pets. The Chamberlain estate previously had goat-like animals, which clung to sheer walls, though they are no longer around because the children kept temporarily dying from falling to their death while trying to ride them.
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Antimatter
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Anti Matter: The Nuyens have millions of magnetic containment jars of anti-iron buried under the Earth, as a way to force to Ord to surrender.
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