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The Obernewtyn Chronicles is an Australian series of speculative fiction novels by Isobelle Carmody set in a world ravaged by a disaster known only as the Great White (presumably a nuclear holocaust). Once the fire stopped raining from the sky, a ruling Council was formed. About the same time, there was a sudden rise in deformed births in both livestock and humans. Afraid of what had just happened, the Council ruled that all mutants, human and animals, should be killed immediately, as would anyone trying to rebel against the Council. They soon founded a new religion, the Herder Faction, which preached the benefits of a natural, puritanical lifestyle and gruesome death to anyone who deviated from the norm.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The books follow the adventures of Elspeth Gordie, a teenage girl in an orphanage for the children of executed criminals. After establishing the mood of the world, the mysterious Madam Vega arrives. She quickly finds Elspeth's secret: she's telepathic, which makes her a Misfit, who are normally used as slave labor on remote concentration camps Councilfarms. Instead, Elspeth is sent to Obernewtyn, to be part of a research project to 'heal' these Misfits.The series falls smack dab in the middle of Science Fantasy, with what is fairly obviously a nuclear apocalypse in the backstory and more than a few Beforetimes machines being essential to the plot, yet the Psychic Powers and attitude are given a strong fantasy interpretation. Similarly, the tone is very dark, but hard work does occasionally pay off.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })There are seven books in the series: Obernewtyn (1987) The Farseekers (1990) Ashling (1995) The Keeping Place (1999) The Stone Key (2008). Split into Wavesong and The Stone Key for the US/Canadian market. The Sending (2011). The Red Queen (2015) | |
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AI Is A Crap Shoot: Yeah... taking all the immense weaponry of an advanced human race and putting it under the control of a Master Computer who would use the weapons to annihilate any country that could be seen as threatening the Earth was so not clever. The damn thing monitors the Balance Of Terror! Did anyone, besides Cassy really not think this through? Played With however when we find out in the last book that the error really arose because factions in the government who were receiving political funding from arms manufacturers attempted to sabotage the project. The cataclysm occurred because the prototype system recognised the back door that had been programmed into it, therefore saw itself as a threat to impartiality, fired the weapons at itself and thus triggered a chain reaction in response to this attack. Without this human corruption, the original program may have worked perfectly, something supported by the fact that the second, completed version of the program willingly shuts itself down when Elspeth reasons with it! | |
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Adventurer Archaeologist: Teknoguild expeditions consist of these. | |
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Played With however when we find out in the last book that the error really arose because factions in the government who were receiving political funding from arms manufacturers attempted to sabotage the project. The cataclysm occurred because the prototype system recognised the back door that had been programmed into it, therefore saw itself as a threat to impartiality, fired the weapons at itself and thus triggered a chain reaction in response to this attack. Without this human corruption, the original program may have worked perfectly, something supported by the fact that the second, completed version of the program willingly shuts itself down when Elspeth reasons with it! | |
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