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The Color of Distance

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The Color of Distance	comment	The Color of Distance and Through Alien Eyes are Science Fiction novels by Amy Thomson.Biologist Dr. Juna Saari is stranded in the dense rainforests of an alien world. With no hope of survival on her own, she must brave many changes and work closely with the native Tendu species, breaking every rule about First Contact along the way.In the sequel, she has the unenviable task of bringing two Tendu to Earth and with them trying to find a way to bring their very different worlds into harmony.
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The Color of Distance / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
The Color of Distance / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: Three-beat hearts that are apparently weaker than human ones aside, they communicate with color-changing skin like squid and have those allu spurs with strange powers.
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The Color of Distance / int_17058a90	type	No Biochemical Barriers
The Color of Distance / int_17058a90	comment	No Biochemical Barriers: Averted. Humans on Tiangi have it worse than quarians would, being so allergic to all the proteins on every alien world that a couple hours without a suit spells death. When she's altered by the Tendu to be able to survive, Juna's whole skin, lungs, and digestive tract get a new coating.
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The Color of Distance / int_216ff506	type	Deep Sleep
The Color of Distance / int_216ff506	comment	Deep Sleep: Quarantine makes Unkatonen's greensickness too powerful to bear, so he elects to go into a near-unwakeable sleep and dream of better surroundings until the crew is released.
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The Color of Distance / int_32c082ae	type	Bury Your Disabled
The Color of Distance / int_32c082ae	comment	Bury Your Disabled: Tendu healing powers are incredible. Severed limbs can be regrown within a year, and most injuries take less time. They may be rare but there are injuries so severe that they can't be entirely healed - those individuals who suffer such injuries choose to "honorably" kill themselves. When hearing that this isn't the case on Earth with humans, some Tendu are baffled. After a brain injury late in the second book, Unkatonen ends up electing to live, much to the consternation of other enkar.
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The Color of Distance / int_4168491	type	No Such Thing as Alien Pop Culture
The Color of Distance / int_4168491	comment	No Such Thing as Alien Pop Culture: Not none, but it's stagnating.
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The Color of Distance / int_4612ec70	type	No Transhumanism Allowed
The Color of Distance / int_4612ec70	comment	No Transhumanism Allowed: Juna is transformed by the Tendu, most notably getting a clammy amphibian skin that changes colors and which she can use to portray words and pictures, and having her own pair of spurs and thus powers. When humans return to pick her up she becomes self-conscious of the changes, especially when someone she's attracted to flinches at the feel of her skin, and asks a Tendu friend to change her back.
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The Color of Distance / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
The Color of Distance / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: Humans have the usual needles. Tendu can administer these with their spurs.
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The Color of Distance / int_640ebd81	type	Bizarre Alien Reproduction
The Color of Distance / int_640ebd81	comment	Bizarre Alien Reproduction: The Tendu life cycle is pretty involved.
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The Color of Distance / int_7913eb6f	type	Healing Hands
The Color of Distance / int_7913eb6f	comment	Healing Hands: Well, forearm spurs. A little girl cured by Moki claims he healed her by holding her hands, but she like everyone else they treat was gently impaled by a spur which healed the damage it caused while being withdrawn.
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The Color of Distance / int_7d30a8fa	type	But We Used a Condom!
The Color of Distance / int_7d30a8fa	comment	But We Were Both Supposed To Have Contraceptive Shots: Contraceptive shots are the default in this setting - but the Tendu innocently restored Juna's fertility, and the man she has sex with grew up in a community that rejected restrictions on conception and since then has just coasted by comfortably knowing that any woman he has sex with isn't fertile.
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The Color of Distance / int_867f9f5c	type	Alien Non-Interference Clause
The Color of Distance / int_867f9f5c	comment	Alien Non-Interference Clause: The first time humans met living intelligent aliens it was disastrous. With that incident in mind, and thinking of Earth's godawful history of colonialism, extensive First Contact protocols were written. Juna has to break many of them to survive and assuage her conscience, but fortunately the Tendu are more robust than the first aliens.
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The Color of Distance / int_892c6fdc	type	Space Elves
The Color of Distance / int_892c6fdc	comment	Space Elves: Tendu are something of an Enlightened Mystic Race, though with time this characterization is deepened.
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The Color of Distance / int_906d319	type	Bandage Wince
The Color of Distance / int_906d319	comment	Bandage Wince: The tinka Juna rescued is in obvious pain when she stitches its wounds. Her companions, who hadn't cared when they saw it was injured, are disturbed.
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The Color of Distance / int_9df812ad	type	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl
The Color of Distance / int_9df812ad	comment	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Juna is only five feet tall herself, but even the tallest Tendu are a few inches shorter than her. She stands out when surrounded by them.
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The Color of Distance / int_9f74002a	type	Feminist Fantasy
The Color of Distance / int_9f74002a	comment	Feminist Fantasy: Little point is ever made about sexism directly, but if you read through and tally up all of the characters in large and small roles, they are evenly divided between men and women. Women are in the highest and lowest levels of society without anyone batting an eye.
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The Color of Distance / int_ad4f656	type	Transhuman Aliens
The Color of Distance / int_ad4f656	comment	Transhuman Alien: When humans return to Tiangi and initially don't realize the transformed Juna is human, she indulges in a spark of mischief and pretends she's an alien until saying "I believe the line is, Doctor Livingstone I presume?"
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The Color of Distance / int_b3aa5504	type	Convenient Coma
The Color of Distance / int_b3aa5504	comment	Convenient Coma: When treating a patient for something advanced that takes many allu-a sessions, the Tendu like to put the patient into a coma and dedicate all their energies to the healing.
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The Color of Distance / int_b82b5723	type	Convulsive Seizures
The Color of Distance / int_b82b5723	comment	Convulsive Seizures: The first Tendu to try and link with a human dies of these.
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The Color of Distance / int_ce323098	type	Self-Mutilation Demonstration
The Color of Distance / int_ce323098	comment	Self-Mutilation Demonstration
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The Color of Distance / int_dd8deee1	type	Xenofiction
The Color of Distance / int_dd8deee1	comment	Xenofiction: Some chapters from each book are told from Tendu points of view.
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The Color of Distance / int_e59a8584	type	Instant Illness
The Color of Distance / int_e59a8584	comment	Instant Illness: Linking with humans initially means letting human cells into Tendu bloodstreams. Humans aren't the only species that can't handle alien proteins.
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