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The Red Tape War

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The Red Tape War	label	The Red Tape War
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The Red Tape War	comment	The Red Tape War is the story of Millard Fillmore Pierce, a human arbiter in a galactic bureaucracy, who inadvertently gets dragged into an interdimensional invasion. It is also the story of Millard Fillmore Pierce, anthropomorphic lizard General in an invasion force that accidentally finds itself in an Alternate Universe. It is also the story of Millard Fillmore Pierce, sapient floating gasbag reconnaissance commander for an invasion force attacking an Alternate Universe. Naturally, these are all Alternate Universe versions of the same person, with remarkably similar lives and outlooks despite their vastly different biologies.All three versions of Pierce come from universes with a Vast Bureaucracy full of Obstructive Bureaucrats, hence the title of the book.In 1980, Jack L Chalker, Mike Resnick, and an unnamed third party got the idea to write a round-robin novel, in which each writer would write a chapter, putting Millard into a certain death situation, then hand the book over to the next writer, who would extract the character(s) from that situation, then contrive to put him in a worse one, then hand it off to the third writer, and so on.After six months, the book was half finished, but the unnamed third writer's work "didn't quite fit the bill," according to Resnick, and both Chalker and Resnick had become a great deal more busy. They paid off the third author, and put the novel on the back burner.For nine years.When they got back together (at the same convention) in 1989, they decided the time was right to continue the story, but they needed a third author who was good enough to rewrite all of the chapters by their prior collaborator, well-known enough not to be intimidated by working with the two of them, and naive enough not to realize what a bad idea it was to join with them on the project.Enter George Alec Effinger.
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The Red Tape War / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English: Averted within the Milky Way galaxy, as not only does every race have their own language, but only seven of the twenty-thousand races in the galaxy have planetary languages. Earth, with 67 languages, 1200 dialects, and an additional 27 languages supplied by human colonies, is listed as a "less extreme example." However, as all of the invaders are alternate-dimension equivalents of humans, including the main character, it still crops up.
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The Red Tape War / int_1eb49c19	type	Stripperiffic
The Red Tape War / int_1eb49c19	comment	Stripperiffic: Marshmallow.
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The Red Tape War / int_1ee0948e	type	Artificial Human
The Red Tape War / int_1ee0948e	comment	Artificial Human: Frank Poole, designed to "be Pierce's pal." It's explicitly stated he's neither a good android nor a good pal, and thus has been in storage for the first half of the novel instead of keeping Pierce company.
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The Red Tape War / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Red Tape War / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Anything ever brought up by one of the authors, ever, no matter how ridiculous, will come into play later. Lampshaded at one point:
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The Red Tape War / int_23d6eccb	type	Non-Mammal Mammaries
The Red Tape War / int_23d6eccb	comment	Non-Mammal Mammaries: Lampshaded aversion: Lizard!Pierce refers to Marshmallow as "that creature with the extra pair of lungs."
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The Red Tape War / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Red Tape War / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: Each author is challenged by the others to get the characters out of a horrible situation during the course of their chapter, only to end that chapter on a cliffhanger that's even worse. According to a friend of the Chalker family, this is due, at least in part, to all three authors having become heartily sick of the story by about half-way through.
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The Red Tape War / int_36754cc7	type	"Freaky Friday" Flip
The Red Tape War / int_36754cc7	comment	"Freaky Friday" Flip: As a result of XB-223's Indy Ploy. Everyone on the ship gets flipped. Leads to Grand Theft Me. Four times.
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The Red Tape War / int_3b4f620a	type	No Fourth Wall
The Red Tape War / int_3b4f620a	comment	No Fourth Wall: Beginning in Chapter Three, the book itself responds to its readers by name. Pretty funny, unless you happen to be "fourteen-year-old V. Chavez of Staunton, Virginia," and "don't care 'bout no gasbags."
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The Red Tape War / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
The Red Tape War / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: After the Executive Meddling (see entry below), a new android, Sal, is brought out to resolve a problem, begins causing other problems, then vanishes from existence as one of the authors declares her to be such. Also subverted, as one minor character turns out to be God, but he's retired now, so he doesn't do anything other than tell everyone this and then vanish - right when it appears that he was going to either save the day or Kill 'em All.
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The Red Tape War / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Red Tape War / int_40bb59d0	comment	Later used as a plot point when XB-223 challenges Lizard!Pierce (and later, Ailey) to "a game of chance"
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The Red Tape War / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
The Red Tape War / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Pierce's navigational computer, passive-aggressive, often wangsty, and generally prissy. Also cheats at chess and card games.
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The Red Tape War / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Red Tape War / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Everyone in the book, but particularly Brad "Broken" Arro, Protean!Pierce's Number One. Explicitly mentioned in orders from Protean!Pierce's commander:
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The Red Tape War / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
The Red Tape War / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: Marshmallow
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The Red Tape War / int_5028baf2	type	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?
The Red Tape War / int_5028baf2	comment	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: XB-223 asks Pierce for clarification of page 187 of Fanny Hill a.k.a. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.
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The Red Tape War / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
The Red Tape War / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: See No Name Given.
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The Red Tape War / int_6041e4f4	type	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard
The Red Tape War / int_6041e4f4	comment	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: The very first bit of dialogue in the novel, Pierce's navigational computer (XB-223) cheats at chess. Later used as a plot point when XB-223 challenges Lizard!Pierce (and later, Ailey) to "a game of chance"
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The Red Tape War / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
The Red Tape War / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One!: During a reflective moment, the authors confess that, amidst all the ridiculous things that have occurred during the course of the novel, "even we were brought up short by the concept of a sheep fondue in the last chapter." Said sheep fondue did not exist at all, and was the result of the "Blind Idiot" Translation caused by the S.N.A.F.O.O. communications, but still.
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The Red Tape War / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
The Red Tape War / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Human!Pierce implies that this is an Arbiter's job description. Whereas in the lizard universe, being able to solve problems gets you committed. Of course, having to deal with the bureaucracy too long gets you committed, too, but to a different ward.
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The Red Tape War / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
The Red Tape War / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: See Here We Go Again!. Also, a fourth Millard Fillmore Pierce is mentioned in Chapter 7 as a throw-away gag, but Human!Pierce says he's being saved for the sequel.
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The Red Tape War / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Red Tape War / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: One reader "complains" that the "Freaky Friday" Flip is something Chalker's done to death, and wonders why the other two authors, both Hugo award winners, indulge him.
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The Red Tape War / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
The Red Tape War / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: XB-223 attempting to romance the Lizard invaders' own navigational computer, while they're eloping, and her responses. Lampshaded, as both are using the a style of speech derived from a "pink-spined shelf of smut." (Or "lizardica".)
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The Red Tape War / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Red Tape War / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Subverted, repeatedly, by almost everything or anybody with a name.
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The Red Tape War / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Red Tape War / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Paddy de Faux Grais, among others.
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The Red Tape War / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
The Red Tape War / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: In a book this heavily laden with comedy tropes, could it end any other way?
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The Red Tape War / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Red Tape War / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: One of the rules set down by the authors before writing the story was that each chapter should end this way.
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The Red Tape War / int_7d5324cf	type	The Federation
The Red Tape War / int_7d5324cf	comment	The Federation: By name, even: The Spiral Fed, a "loose economic federation of wolrds on one of the Milky Way's spiral arms."
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The Red Tape War / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Red Tape War / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: A side-effect of the Vast Bureaucracy. As the Battleship Mahatma Ghandi's commander says, they're perfectly happy to risk their lives going around the galaxy rescuing people, but not if it means going through six months of paperwork.
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The Red Tape War / int_82860842	type	Art Major Biology
The Red Tape War / int_82860842	comment	Art Major Biology: Lampshaded. "It should be noted for the likes of Mrs. Sutton that on their home world, the Proteans actually did have vegetables that gibbered. Even after they were cooked." Pretty much anything to do with the Proteans, in fact.
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The Red Tape War / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
The Red Tape War / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: At one point, the characters hear the authors arguing. At another, the book begins to berate Effinger for something not happening before apparently getting KilledMidSentence. The book itself dies. Before it's over. It comes back to life. Obviously.]
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The Red Tape War / int_88e1831d	type	Vast Bureaucracy
The Red Tape War / int_88e1831d	comment	Vast Bureaucracy / Obstructive Bureaucrat: Everywhere. In all four referenced universes (five if you count Tor books' relationship with the authors). Fortunately, it obstructs the invaders as much as Pierce.
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The Red Tape War / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Red Tape War / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Lizard!Pierce's race "are a very warlike race, bent on empire, rape, carnage, and looting. Especially rape." It's something some of their soldiers specialize (or cross-specialize) in. And due to the nature of the world they come from, no one is allowed to do anything outside their specialties.
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The Red Tape War / int_8abd0e31	type	It Was His Sled
The Red Tape War / int_8abd0e31	comment	It Was His Sled: invoked XB-223's failed attempt to explain what a rosebud is to Ailey invokes this and Cowboy BeBop at His Computer at the same time.
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The Red Tape War / int_8e9cf84e	type
The Red Tape War / int_8e9cf84e	comment	"Blind Idiot" Translation: When a classified ad is run through multiple relays, each in a different language (or just accent in some cases) and comes out at its intended destination, it changes from a simple (albeit shady) job offer to complete gibberish: This continues for multiple exchanges
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The Red Tape War / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
The Red Tape War / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: In the lizard universe, most actual therapists either quit, sell out, or go crazy from guilt.
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The Red Tape War / int_988dc0fd	type	Living Gasbag
The Red Tape War / int_988dc0fd	comment	Living Gasbag: Millard Fillmore Pierce (the floating alien gasbag one, of course).
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The Red Tape War / int_98a19d7f	type	Money, Dear Boy
The Red Tape War / int_98a19d7f	comment	Money, Dear Boy: Towards the end, when a reader complains about the "Freaky Friday" Flip, the book replies that while Resnick and Effinger are award winning authors, Chalker is simply rolling in green, and they want a piece of that action, too.
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The Red Tape War / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
The Red Tape War / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: Protean!Pierce, who is a Commodore because of the village he was born in.
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The Red Tape War / int_9e08a5c2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
The Red Tape War / int_9e08a5c2	comment	What Measure Is A Nonhuman: Played for laughs.
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The Red Tape War / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
The Red Tape War / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: Subverted. The novel is about to relay Protean!Pierce's countdown from 2,971 to 0 (to fill most of the chapter) when Mr. Isaac Hodgkinson of Austin, Texas objects.
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The Red Tape War / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
The Red Tape War / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: All three authors used this and From Bad to Worse as their guideline for every event in the book.
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The Red Tape War / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
The Red Tape War / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Despite many, many, many exhibitions of frustration beforehand, Lizard!Pierce has the following bit of dialogue in chapter three:
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The Red Tape War / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
The Red Tape War / int_b2c737e8	comment	Klingon Promotion: "It also happens to be the only way to advance in this lizard's army."
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The Red Tape War / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
The Red Tape War / int_b6de94d1	comment	Executive Meddling: Used to rush the story to a conclusion towards the end. It doesn't work.
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The Red Tape War / int_bd5e9702	type	His Name Is...
The Red Tape War / int_bd5e9702	comment	His Name Is...: The book itself appears to be Killed Mid-Sentence revealing who's writing the current chapter at one point. It gets better.
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The Red Tape War / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The Red Tape War / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Done in-universe to XB-223 and Pierce during the "Freaky Friday" Flip in order to finesse a Grand Theft Me. Done to the readers at the same time. Try keeping track of who's who after they're hypnotized to believe they are who they appear to be and not only does it work, but the authors simply refer to them by the names of their bodies. The authors actually clarify who's who, but then immediately request that anyone who actually understands the plot so far send them a summary, because they're lost. Later, one of the authors appears to kill the book - or at least the apparently sapient part of the narrative that addresses the readers and refers to itself as "the book." The story continues, however.
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The Red Tape War / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
The Red Tape War / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: A meta-example: Secondary Nautical Auxiliary Ferry Oscillation Operation.
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The Red Tape War / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
The Red Tape War / int_c6102eb0	comment	Grand Theft Me: After the "Freaky Friday" Flip, this is attempted as an Indy Ploy. By four different people. One against his will.
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The Red Tape War / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: So, so many.
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The Red Tape War / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
The Red Tape War / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: While travelling at more than two hundred times the speed of light, they leave Marshmallow's ship "quite a few light-years" behind them in a matter of minutes.
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The Red Tape War / int_dd891949	type	Who Writes This Crap?!
The Red Tape War / int_dd891949	comment	Who Writes This Crap?!: "It sounds like sci-fi doubletalk to me, but what do I know?"
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The Red Tape War / int_df582b0b	comment	Continuity Snarl: Though it actually doesn't occur despite the authors' efforts to undo each others' efforts, the final chapter contains this:
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The Red Tape War / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
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The Red Tape War / int_ea5c413d	type	Biting-the-Hand Humor
The Red Tape War / int_ea5c413d	comment	Biting-the-Hand Humor: When Resnick's attempt to get out of writing the last chapter by claiming that Tor books could be sued by someone named Millard Fillmore Pierce who might be offended doesn't work:
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