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The Dark Side of the Sun

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The Dark Side of the Sun	comment	One of Terry Pratchett's earliest novels, The Dark Side of the Sun explores a science fiction setting, although astute readers will note the appearance of several concepts later to appear in Discworld.Dom Sabalos is the heir to the throne of the planet Widdershins, a human colony in a galaxy where there are fifty-two intelligent races — but oddly all of them inside a sphere 200 light-years in diameter, centred on Wolf 429. Besides this, there are also bizarre stellar phenomena and mysterious towers strewn across the region that speak of Precursors, known as the Jokers. The mystery underlying the setting is where the Jokers went, the only clue being the poem shown above, which was found on one of the towers.A secret arm of the human government, using 'probability math' to predict the future, tries repeatedly to assassinate Dom but the universe always conspires to save him for some purpose: which, of course, is to find the truth behind the Jokers' disappearance...
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The elite robot assassin's name, Ways. As in, "We have our..."
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_204a1207	type	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_204a1207	comment	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: Interspace contains infinite possibilities, meaning unless your ship is shielded you get constant glimpses of distant universes and timelines. Dom's ship isn't shielded.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Cannibalism is common practice among the Drosks; the other races tend to avert their eyes when seated at the same table with them.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_31c5e7fb	type	Starfish Aliens
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_31c5e7fb	comment	Starfish Aliens: Dom says most of the alien races are incomprehensible to humans, mentioning the Jovians and the Spooners specifically. The Creapii are comprehensible but are a more literal example, being many-tentacled in their native form.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_33ebf487	type	Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_33ebf487	comment	Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight: Never bring a single-shot stun gun into a place where every alpha male is armed with a two-foot long knife. Your career will be cut short. Along with some other bits of you.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_44141b67	type	Sssssnaketalk
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_44141b67	comment	Sssssnaketalk: The reptilian phnobes speak with extended hissing on ssssibilantssss.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_4cb90f31	type	Three Laws-Compliant
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_4cb90f31	comment	Three Laws-Compliant: Parodied. Mention is made of the "Eleventh Law of Robotics, Clause C, As Amended", which states that a robot may use necessary force if explicitly instructed to do so by its authorised user.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_525fe89a	type	Extremophile Lifeforms
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_525fe89a	comment	Extremophile Lifeforms: The Creapi's homeworld saw them evolve in molten phosphorous sulphides. When they spread into space, they simply redesigned themselves to fit the changing situations they encountered. Half a million years of forced evolution has created the middle-degree Creaps, who are happy at a mere 500 degrees C. The divergent High-Degree Creapii live on the outer surfaces of relatively cool stars. Wherever a star pushes the ambient temperature to beyond the melting point of tin, there you will find Creapii. In fact, they bartered with the human race, who were happy to sign over squatters' rights to the planet Mercury in exchange for Creap technology. To interact with humans they wear "spacesuits" that preserve life at habitable temperatures in what to them is a freezingly sub-zero hostile environment.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_561b252d	type	Single-Precept Religion
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_561b252d	comment	Single-Precept Religion: The religion of Arte Sadhim has the One Commandment, which is eventually stated to be "You Will Not Waste".
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_56b53152	type	Green Aesop
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_56b53152	comment	Green Aesop: Sadhim's teachings are based on late-seventies-early-eighties environmentalism, although his followers have largely forgotten the significance of this.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Referred to as "shape hatred." Most prominent example is a Jerkass human character who calls phnobes "gecky frogs", then enters a buruku (phnobic colony) with a gun, which is strictly forbidden.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The Whole Erse are rather negative Irish sterotypes. 'Erse' itself is an old fashioned term for Irish Gaelige, a fight is compared to "Whole Erse on Slain Patrick's Eve", they apparently are constantly at war with each other and are backwards rurals who are noted for their dancers and potatoes.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_586624e5	comment	Genius Loci: The First Sirian Bank is a sentient planet, Chatogaster is a sentient sea, and there's a brief mention of a sentient sun having been found elsewhere. "We are now looking for an intelligent gas cloud to complete the elemental quartet".
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_5b12f598	type	Million to One Chance
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_5b12f598	comment	Million to One Chance: Fairly often, thanks to the incredible luck of some characters. For example, in order to prove his identity, robot assassin Ways has to throw three six-sided dice and get three sixes - twice in a row. (That's only a 1 to 46656 chance, of course, but the principle stands.)
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_5c1d5030	comment	Grew Beyond Their Programming: Class One robots are the lowest grade of android, which can perform basic tasks but don't have anything approaching human-level intelligence. Except for Charles Sub-Lunar, a Class One who somehow ended up as the galaxy's greatest poet and polymath.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_6b4763f	type	Morph Weapon
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_6b4763f	comment	Morph Weapon: The memory sword, which can completely rearrange its atoms based on a field-generator in the hilt. Amongst the forms mentioned are a needle-sword, a Sonic Stunner, and a gun that creates its own bullets by freezing water vapour from the air.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_7ea2c78c	type	Shipless Faster-Than-Light Travel
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_7ea2c78c	comment	Shipless Faster-Than-Light Travel: The Sundogs are sapient Space Whales who possess a natural ability to travel through Interspace. Some of them will accept payments to carry small spaceships with them.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_808b6d16	type	Sdrawkcab Name
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_808b6d16	comment	Sdrawkcab Name: A star called 'Rats' with a planet called 'Tenalp' is briefly mentioned - aside from being very strange (and not the sort of thing you mention in mixed company), we don't hear exactly why they're so called. There's a brief mention of them having "negative entropy", which could suggest that natural processes work in reverse, hence the names.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: Joan Sabalos, Dom's grandmother, is the family matriarch and a force to be reckoned with.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_854b029a	type	Encyclopedia Exposita
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_854b029a	comment	Encyclopedia Exposita: Chapter headings feature quotes from in-universe works of non-fiction, mostly the works of Charles Sub-Lunar.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The robot assassin Ways, who was an antagonist for almost all the book, is forgotten near the end, and his fate is unknown.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_8a27f768	type	Space Whale
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_8a27f768	comment	Space Whale: The Sundogs, huge intelligent life-forms native to space who can travel naturally through Interspace and will carry non-matrix engine-equipped ships with them for a fee. They lay their eggs on the planet Band and their young grow up on the surface, being only man-sized when born.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_92eb3e7c	type	From a Single Cell
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_92eb3e7c	comment	From a Single Cell: The Widdershins googoo (the name is a reference to googols) can regenerate someone's entire body working from just a fragment of brain, which is what happens to Dom after an assassination attempt with a black hole.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_94f4832c	type	Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_94f4832c	comment	Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: Sort of. The phnobes have three sexes, so they're presumably sexually trimorphic — this is mentioned but not explored further. The swamp igs are hermaphrodites, while the drosks are born male but become female 1/3 of the way into their life.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Invoked when it's mentioned that "Human" is a legally defined term for a limited subset of intelligent species, including some robots and a planet-sized computer known as the First Sirian Bank. Essentially it's a clear measure of what a Non-Human is. A large number of non-human beings are still considered people, though.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_9eca61c8	type	Production Foreshadowing
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_9eca61c8	comment	Production Foreshadowing: The First Sirian Bank speaks in the same block capitals as Death from the later Discworld series. A lot of concepts in the Sadhimist religion are identical to those of the Disc religions, including worshipping Small Gods or celebrating Soul Cake Tuesday and Hogswatch.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: When Dom attempts to release Isaac, the robot explains that humans might strive for freedom, but robots know exactly why they exist and don't need to angst about it.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_b39b94da	type	Born Lucky
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_b39b94da	comment	Born Lucky: Not exactly; here it is a learned ability. Extreme luck is a side effect of learning probability mathematics. More straight example is the robot assassin Ways: he was made with built-in knowledge of probability math, or, in other words, "Ways had been designed to be lucky".
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: After the Guns in Church incident, Hrssh-hggn comments:
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_c10d7b86	type	Flash Sideways
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_c10d7b86	comment	Flash Sideways: Travellers in Interspace will get glimpses of alternate universes.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_c2e3f1b4	type	Affluent Ascetic
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_c2e3f1b4	comment	Affluent Ascetic: As Dom puts it, it takes a great amount of wealth to be able to afford to live simply at this point in the future. When he finds himself in a home that is even simpler he realizes they must be even wealthier than his own family.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_c32ff95d	type	Playing Card Motifs
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_c32ff95d	comment	Playing Card Motifs: The novel's themes of probability and chance are echoed in the number of sentient races in the setting: 52 plus the Jokers.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_c3cb84e2	type	Simple, yet Opulent
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_c3cb84e2	comment	Simple, yet Opulent: Dom's simple coronation breakfast is an insanely expensive simple coronation breakfast. This is generally how Sadhimist ruling families tend to live - Keya, Dom's sister who married the ruler of another planet comments that her new husband flaunts his riches more, despite actually having less than the Sabalos do.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_c48a0fe6	type	Actually, That's My Assistant
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_c48a0fe6	comment	Actually, That's My Assistant: Early in the novel, Dom has two people (a man and a battered antique Class One robot) pointed out to him as Charles Sub-Lunar, the greatest genius of the age, and his manservant. It's not until much later that he finds out that Charles Sub-Lunar was the robot.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Dom's robot sidekick is named Isaac and runs on a parody of the Three Laws of Robotics. There are several references to Larry Niven's work, though more subtle than in Strata. For example, a brief description of drosk society sounds like a comically exaggerated version of the Moties from The Mote in God's Eye.note The drosks are born male and later become female as part of their life cycle, which the Moties do the other way around; the Moties' rapid population growth means their civilization moves in cycles of growth and collapse back to the stone age, which they prepare for, while the drosks are said to 'periodically build up an advanced civilization, and then for reasons known only to themselves, carefully dismantle it and revert to barbarism'. After an assassination attempt, Dom has a dream where Isaac tries to explain the situation using what appear to be the plot outlines of several well-known series (all of which are shot down by Dom), including Dune and The Lord of the Rings. The satirical play Dom attends features a chorus of robots with a refrain inspired by the chorus of frogs in Aristophanes's The Frogs.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_cd218d63	type	Swiss-Army Gun
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_cd218d63	comment	Swiss-Army Gun: The Memory Sword can become a wide variety of weapons, from swords to molecular strippers to projectile guns that make ice bullets by freezing atmospheric moisture.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_ce032b97	type	Mechanical Insects
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_ce032b97	comment	Mechanical Insects: The planet Laoth is deliberately kept sterile, so its inhabitants created an ecosystem of robotic life, including insects.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_d10d5eb5	type	Made of Indestructium
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_d10d5eb5	comment	Made of Indestructium: The Joker towers are completely unmarked by any weapon, even Creapii superweapons which take out several nearby star systems.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Subverted. Charles Sub-Lunar and his assistant are lurking in the background of a number of scenes, but do very little.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_e0207930	type	Humans Are Special
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_e0207930	comment	Humans Are Special: Dom's grandmother is convinced the Jokers' World was Earth and they bred with humans to uplift them. Others pointedly mention that identical theories are believed by just about every other race about their own homeworld.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_e2f7ab99	type	Assassin Outclassin'
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_e2f7ab99	comment	Assassin Outclassin': An important element of the plot. Due to probability mathematics (see the Expendable Alternate Universe example below) Dom can do this. As a result of this, Ways is pretty much unstoppable, but can't quite kill him.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_e4900915	type	Ridiculously Human Robots
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_e4900915	comment	Ridiculously Human Robots: Ways, the Class Five assassin robot, is designed to resemble a human in every particular so that he can mingle undetected when he's out on a job.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_edcc813f	type	Fantastic Caste System
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_edcc813f	comment	Fantastic Caste System: The Creapii are divided by caste depending on their living temperature and their size.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
The Dark Side of the Sun / int_f2877d9e	comment	Incredibly Lame Pun: Noted in-universe. The planet Band is so-called not only because it consists of horizontal bands of different kinds of terrain, but also because landing there is banned.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_f2a5f7f2	comment	Expospeak Gag: Several involving robots. Particularly neat is the scene where Isaac defeats a gang of other robots, which outnumber him but have less sophisticated electronic brains, by informing them that they're not robots, they're "recumbent waterfowl of the genus Anatidae", and then knocking them out while they're trying to work out what he just said. ("I repeat, you are all sitting ducks.")
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_f87886d2	comment	Sharpened to a Single Atom: The shamsword, with a blade which is invisible except where the light hits it and "only a few microns thick". Until the blade shatters when used against a villain gifted in luck manipulation.
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The Dark Side of the Sun / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Dom's coronation breakfast is supposed to be the same as the simple, austere one that the puritan, anti-waste religious figure Arte Sadhim ate before he became Lord of Earth: A quarter-loaf of brown bread, a strip of salted fish, an apple and a glass of water. However, inevitably each simple item is acquired by some enormously expensive means as he's royal (for example, the glass of water was melted off a comet).
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