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The Icarus Hunt
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The Icarus Hunt is a 1999 Sci Fi novel by Timothy Zahn, of Star Wars Expanded Universe fame. The plot is as follows: Jordan McKell, a former soldier and current pilot/smuggler, is given command of the Icarus, a very odd ship with a ragtag crew and a mysterious cargo. His journey is plagued with problems, not the least of which are a saboteur and murderer on board and a widespread manhunt for him and his cargo.More than 20 years later, Zahn returned to this setting with the sequel The Icarus Plot, which features a different protagonist. | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology: Ixil has two rodent-like "outriders" that can connect to his nervous system and share memories. The computer also has issues diagnosing him when he gets injured. Jordan uses this against aliens on a regular basis. See Combat Pragmatist. | |
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Applied Phlebotinum | |
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Applied Phlebotinum: The Patth's stardrive and the teleportation device the Icarus is built around. | |
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Twist Ending | |
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Twist Ending: Like pretty much every other Zahn work. Not to mention there are plenty of twists part way through the plot, too. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Jordan and Ixil. Many comments have been made that their relationship is like Han and Chewie's, without the life debt thing. | |
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Humanoid Aliens | |
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Humanoid Aliens: Almost all the aliens we see in this universe are more or less humanoid. | |
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Scary Shiny Glasses | |
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Scary Shiny Glasses: Jordan believes that Uncle Arthur uses these on his underlings. It doesn't really work over videophone. | |
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Faster-Than-Light Travel | |
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Faster-Than-Light Travel: Everyone has it; what's important is how fast. | |
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Fantastic Drug | |
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Fantastic Drug: "Happyjam", which Jordan and Ixil have run for Brother John in the past. It seems basically like any contemporary addictive drug though, without any 'sci-fi-y' twists mentioned. | |
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Significant Monogram | |
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Significant Monogram: Tera ends up having one once Jordan learns her full name. | |
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HalfTruth | |
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Half-Truth: Jordan rarely tells the full story to anyone but Ixil. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: Jordan pulls off a couple big ones, including one on the Big Bad. | |
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Energy Weapon | |
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Energy Weapon: Jordan carries a "plasmic" and runs into aliens that carry "coronal discharge" weapons. The former shoots balls of plasma and the latter burns the target to a crisp with a burst of electricity. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
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Combat Pragmatist: Jordan. He will use anything and everything against his assailants including psychology, knowledge of alien anatomy, and his surroundings. | |
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Improvised Weapon | |
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Improvised Weapon: Jordan threatens an alien with broken space glass. | |
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Casual Interstellar Travel | |
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Casual Interstellar Travel: Of the Space Is an Ocean and Planetville variety. | |
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The Conspiracy | |
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The Conspiracy: The hunt for Jordan and the Icarus is backed by a mysterious organization. | |
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Impersonation Gambit | |
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Impersonation Gambit: Jordan uses one early to get more information about his pursuers. The papers he gets help Nicabar set up another one later. | |
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Death Glare | |
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Death Glare: Tera gives lots of these to Jordan. | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill: The Icarus and its crew get out of a few tough spots with a string of these. | |
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Bio-Augmentation | |
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Bio-Augmentation: The Patth implant bits of their control hardware into pilots so the drives can't be reverse engineered. | |
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Token Romance | |
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Token Romance: Tacked on in the last two pages or so though it's understated. Unusually it doesn't feature the main character. | |
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Driving Question | |
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Driving Question: What does everyone want with the Icarus? | |
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Artificial Gravity | |
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Artificial Gravity: There's basically a switch that flips it on and off. | |
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Non-Human Sidekick | |
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Non-Human Sidekick: Ixil to Jordan, sorta. It turns out that Ixil is technically Jordan's superior officer, though their relationship is more one of partners. | |
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Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better | |
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Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: Discussed in some of Jordan's internal commentary. It appears that kinetic weapons and energy weapons deal similar damage to people, but kinetic weapons are a bad idea on a ship where they can destroy equipment and cause hull breaches. | |
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"Eureka!" Moment | |
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"Eureka!" Moment: Jordan has several through the course of the book. | |
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Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit" | |
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Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": Kind of. Reflecting trends in technology at the time the book was written, Jordan has a do-anything communication device that in other sci-fi settings would have a fancy name, but here he simply refers to it as his 'phone'. Also, Ixil's two outriders are referred to as 'ferrets'. | |
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The Handler | |
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The Handler: Jordan gets two. At the same time. | |
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Indy Ploy | |
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Indy Ploy: Whenever Jordan isn't on the ship, he's doing this. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: When the rest of the crew show up to rescue Jordan. | |
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Gondor Calls for Aid | |
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Gondor Calls for Aid: Jordan calls for aid for The Climax, with The Cavalry being Kalirixi commandos who have nothing to lose by helping him. | |
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