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"The Ship Who ..." is a science fiction series created by Anne McCaffrey, consisting of short stories and novels.In The Future, infants with severe birth defects are placed in self-contained life-support shells in which they will spend their entire lives, and are trained to become the "brain" of a starship (or space station, megacity, etc.), into which they will be connected in such a way that the facility is effectively their body. Most "brains" are then partnered with humans, dubbed "brawns", who act as representative and counterpart, going where the brains cannot.McCaffrey first visited the setting in a series of short stories written in the 1960s, following the adventures of a brainship named Helva; these were collected in The Ship Who Sang in 1969.The setting was revived in the 1990s by Baen Books for a series of co-written novels: PartnerShip (1992, with Margaret Ball), The Ship Who Searched (1992, with Mercedes Lackey), The City Who Fought (1993, with S. M. Stirling), and The Ship Who Won (1994, with Jody Lynn Nye). These were followed by The Ship Errant (1996, a direct sequel to The Ship Who Won, by Jody Lynn Nye solo) and The Ship Avenged (1997, a direct sequel to The City Who Fought, by S. M. Stirling solo).McCaffrey also wrote two more short stories in the "ship who sang" sequence after long gaps ("Honeymoon", 1977, and "The Ship That Returned", 1999), and "brainships" have made occasional cameos in her other science fiction series, including the Crystal Singer series.This series provides examples of: |
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Activist-Fundamentalist Antics / int_24a18ffe |
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Alien Blood / int_24a18ffe |
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Alien Catnip / int_24a18ffe |
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Alien Non-Interference Clause / int_24a18ffe |
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Aliens Speaking English / int_24a18ffe |
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Ambiguously Bi / int_24a18ffe |
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And the Adventure Continues / int_24a18ffe |
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"Angry Black Man" Stereotype / int_24a18ffe |
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Asteroid Miners / int_24a18ffe |
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Beautiful Singing Voice / int_24a18ffe |
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Beauty Is Bad / int_24a18ffe |
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Because You Can Cope / int_24a18ffe |
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Belief Makes You Stupid / int_24a18ffe |
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Benevolent Boss / int_24a18ffe |
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Bizarre Alien Psychology / int_24a18ffe |
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Bizarre Alien Reproduction / int_24a18ffe |
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Bloodier and Gorier / int_24a18ffe |
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Brains and Brawn / int_24a18ffe |
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Bratty Teenage Daughter / int_24a18ffe |
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Breeding Cult / int_24a18ffe |
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Breeding Slave / int_24a18ffe |
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Bury Your Disabled / int_24a18ffe |
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Casual Interstellar Travel / int_24a18ffe |
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Chased by Angry Natives / int_24a18ffe |
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Chastity Couple / int_24a18ffe |
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Cheerful Child / int_24a18ffe |
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Chemically-Induced Insanity / int_24a18ffe |
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Child Prodigy / int_24a18ffe |
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Clandestine Chemist / int_24a18ffe |
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Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends / int_24a18ffe |
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Coitus Uninterruptus / int_24a18ffe |
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Cold-Blooded Torture / int_24a18ffe |
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Coming in Hot / int_24a18ffe |
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Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like / int_24a18ffe |
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Computer Virus / int_24a18ffe |
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Computer Voice / int_24a18ffe |
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Conditioned to Be Weak / int_24a18ffe |
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Cope by Creating / int_24a18ffe |
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Cosmic Deadline / int_24a18ffe |
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Courtly Love / int_24a18ffe |
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Cryonics Failure / int_24a18ffe |
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Cult Colony / int_24a18ffe |
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Custom Uniform / int_24a18ffe |
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Darwinist Desire / int_24a18ffe |
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Death Faked for You / int_24a18ffe |
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Decontamination Chamber / int_24a18ffe |
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Defiant Captive / int_24a18ffe |
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Delusions of Parental Love / int_24a18ffe |
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Department of Child Disservices / int_24a18ffe |
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Disability-Negating Superpower / int_24a18ffe |
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Disposable Vagrant / int_24a18ffe |
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Double Standard: Rape, Male on Male / int_24a18ffe |
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Dream-Crushing Handicap / int_24a18ffe |
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Dress Hits Floor / int_24a18ffe |
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Dueling Scar / int_24a18ffe |
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Early Personality Signs / int_24a18ffe |
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Eating the Eye Candy / int_24a18ffe |
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Embarrassing Initials / int_24a18ffe |
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Emergency Cargo Dump / int_24a18ffe |
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Emotionless Girl / int_24a18ffe |
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Entitled to Have You / int_24a18ffe |
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Epiphany Therapy / int_24a18ffe |
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Eternal Engine / int_24a18ffe |
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Exact Eavesdropping / int_24a18ffe |
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Exotic Extended Marriage / int_24a18ffe |
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Explosions in Space / int_24a18ffe |
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Exposed Extraterrestrials / int_24a18ffe |
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FTL Test Blunder / int_24a18ffe |
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FTL Travel Sickness / int_24a18ffe |
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Failsafe Failure / int_24a18ffe |
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Fan of the Past / int_24a18ffe |
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Fantastic Drug / int_24a18ffe |
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First Contact Farmer / int_24a18ffe |
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First Contact Faux Pas / int_24a18ffe |
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Foe Cooties / int_24a18ffe |
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Forced Addiction / int_24a18ffe |
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Foreign Cuss Word / int_24a18ffe |
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Foreign-Language Tirade / int_24a18ffe |
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Fresh Clue / int_24a18ffe |
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Frog Men / int_24a18ffe |
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Full-Conversion Cyborg / int_24a18ffe |
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Future Food Is Artificial / int_24a18ffe |
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Future Music / int_24a18ffe |
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Galactic Conqueror / int_24a18ffe |
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Gasshole / int_24a18ffe |
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Genius Loci / int_24a18ffe |
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Getting High on Their Own Supply / int_24a18ffe |
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Grew Beyond Their Programming / int_24a18ffe |
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Guilt-Free Extermination War / int_24a18ffe |
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Hands-Off Parenting / int_24a18ffe |
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Handy Helper / int_24a18ffe |
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He Will Not Cry, so I Cry for Him / int_24a18ffe |
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Helpless Observer Protagonist / int_24a18ffe |
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Homeworld Evacuation / int_24a18ffe |
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Hotter and Sexier / int_24a18ffe |
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How Unscientific! / int_24a18ffe |
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Human Hard Drive / int_24a18ffe |
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Human Subspecies / int_24a18ffe |
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I Cannot Self-Terminate / int_24a18ffe |
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I Can't Feel My Legs! / int_24a18ffe |
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I Choose to Stay / int_24a18ffe |
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I Know Mortal Kombat / int_24a18ffe |
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Iconic Item / int_24a18ffe |
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I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder / int_24a18ffe |
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Immortality Begins at Twenty / int_24a18ffe |
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Indentured Servitude / int_24a18ffe |
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Inscrutable Aliens / int_24a18ffe |
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Inside a Computer System / int_24a18ffe |
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Instant Sedation / int_24a18ffe |
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Interrupted Intimacy / int_24a18ffe |
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Invading Refugees / int_24a18ffe |
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"It" Is Dehumanizing / int_24a18ffe |
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It's a Small World, After All / int_24a18ffe |
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It's All My Fault / int_24a18ffe |
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Karmic Protection / int_24a18ffe |
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Karmic STD / int_24a18ffe |
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Kidnapped for Experimentation / int_24a18ffe |
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Klingons Love Shakespeare / int_24a18ffe |
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Knockout Gas / int_24a18ffe |
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Lame Pun Reaction / int_24a18ffe |
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Larynx Dissonance / int_24a18ffe |
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Last-Minute Hookup / int_24a18ffe |
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Last Note Nightmare / int_24a18ffe |
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Legendary in the Sequel / int_24a18ffe |
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Life-or-Limb Decision / int_24a18ffe |
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Lightworlder / int_24a18ffe |
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Living Gasbag / int_24a18ffe |
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Lonely Doll Girl / int_24a18ffe |
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Long-Lived / int_24a18ffe |
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Lost Food Grievance / int_24a18ffe |
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Lousy Lovers Are Losers / int_24a18ffe |
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Lying by Omission / int_24a18ffe |
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Machine Monotone / int_24a18ffe |
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Magic from Technology / int_24a18ffe |
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Magic or Psychic? / int_24a18ffe |
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Majority-Share Dictator / int_24a18ffe |
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Man in the Machine / int_24a18ffe |
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Memory Wipe Exploitation / int_24a18ffe |
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Mental Shutdown / int_24a18ffe |
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Minion with an F in Evil / int_24a18ffe |
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Mistaken for Aliens / int_24a18ffe |
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More Experienced Chases the Innocent / int_24a18ffe |
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Named After Their Planet / int_24a18ffe |
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Never Gets Fat / int_24a18ffe |
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No Conservation of Energy / int_24a18ffe |
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No Infantile Amnesia / int_24a18ffe |
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No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine / int_24a18ffe |
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No Seat Belts / int_24a18ffe |
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No Such Thing as Alien Pop Culture / int_24a18ffe |
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Noble Savage / int_24a18ffe |
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Non-Human Non-Binary / int_24a18ffe |
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Non-Standard Kiss / int_24a18ffe |
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Nondescript, Nasty, Nutritious / int_24a18ffe |
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Not a Morning Person / int_24a18ffe |
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Not Using the "Z" Word / int_24a18ffe |
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Numbered Homeworld / int_24a18ffe |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_24a18ffe |
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One Last Job / int_24a18ffe |
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Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap / int_24a18ffe |
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Open Relationship Failure / int_24a18ffe |
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Operator Incompatibility / int_24a18ffe |
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Our Gryphons Are Different / int_24a18ffe |
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Our Humans Are Different / int_24a18ffe |
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Pacifism Breaking Point / int_24a18ffe |
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Pair the Spares / int_24a18ffe |
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Pardon My Klingon / int_24a18ffe |
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Parental Neglect / int_24a18ffe |
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Patchwork Story / int_24a18ffe |
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People Jars / int_24a18ffe |
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Physical Disability in Media / int_24a18ffe |
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Physical Therapy Plot / int_24a18ffe |
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Place Worse Than Death / int_24a18ffe |
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Plasma Cannon / int_24a18ffe |
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Platonic Life-Partners / int_24a18ffe |
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Power Nullifier / int_24a18ffe |
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Pre-Climax Climax / int_24a18ffe |
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Private Profit Prison / int_24a18ffe |
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Proportional Aging / int_24a18ffe |
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Quitting to Get Married / int_24a18ffe |
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Rapid Aging / int_24a18ffe |
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Razor Floss / int_24a18ffe |
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Real Women Don't Wear Dresses / int_24a18ffe |
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Reluctant Retiree / int_24a18ffe |
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Remote Body / int_24a18ffe |
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Rescue Sex / int_24a18ffe |
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Resignations Not Accepted / int_24a18ffe |
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Robot and A.I. Works / int_24a18ffe |
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Ruder and Cruder / int_24a18ffe |
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Salvage Pirates / int_24a18ffe |
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Sand Worm / int_24a18ffe |
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Sapient Ship / int_24a18ffe |
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Scary Black Man / int_24a18ffe |
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Science Fantasy / int_24a18ffe |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_24a18ffe |
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Seeing Through Another's Eyes / int_24a18ffe |
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Sexiled / int_24a18ffe |
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Shameful Source of Knowledge / int_24a18ffe |
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Sharpened to a Single Atom / int_24a18ffe |
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Silent Running Mode / int_24a18ffe |
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Slobs Versus Snobs / int_24a18ffe |
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Smug Straight Edge / int_24a18ffe |
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Solid Gold Poop / int_24a18ffe |
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Son of a Whore / int_24a18ffe |
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Space Amish / int_24a18ffe |
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Space Cadet / int_24a18ffe |
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Space Pirates / int_24a18ffe |
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Space Station / int_24a18ffe |
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Spaceship Girl / int_24a18ffe |
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Starfish Language / int_24a18ffe |
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Stay with the Aliens / int_24a18ffe |
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Sterility Plague / int_24a18ffe |
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Street Urchin / int_24a18ffe |
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Technically-Living Zombie / int_24a18ffe |
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10-Minute Retirement / int_24a18ffe |
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Tested on Humans / int_24a18ffe |
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The All-Seeing A.I. / int_24a18ffe |
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The Alleged Car / int_24a18ffe |
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The Bartender / int_24a18ffe |
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The Federation / int_24a18ffe |
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The Fog of Ages / int_24a18ffe |
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The Law of Conservation of Detail / int_24a18ffe |
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The Noun Who Verbed / int_24a18ffe |
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The Social Darwinist / int_24a18ffe |
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The World Mocks Your Loss / int_24a18ffe |
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Token Heroic Orc / int_24a18ffe |
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Unable to Cry / int_24a18ffe |
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Uterine Replicator / int_24a18ffe |
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Virgin-Shaming / int_24a18ffe |
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Voice Changeling / int_24a18ffe |
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We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future / int_24a18ffe |
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We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future / int_24a18ffe |
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Wetware CPU / int_24a18ffe |
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Wheelchair Woobie / int_24a18ffe |
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When You Coming Home, Dad? / int_24a18ffe |
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Work Off the Debt / int_24a18ffe |
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Wrong-Name Outburst / int_24a18ffe |
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Your Worst Memory / int_24a18ffe |
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Zombie Advocate / int_24a18ffe |
