![]() She treats 'Snookums' as her own child, but subverts the usual ending as she realizes he is very much a machine. ![]() Leda Crannon, a child psychologist, is brought in to help develop an AI after the first two attempts failed. Motherly Scientist: In Unwise Child, Dr.Market-Based Title: The three parts of the Psi-Power trilogy were titled "That Sweet Little Old Lady", "Out Like a Light", and "Occasion for Disaster" when first published in Analog when they were republished in book form they were renamed Brain Twister, The Impossibles, and Supermind.Lobotomy: Done to Elissa at the end of "The Queen Bee", to punish her for murder while keeping her available as the only breeding stock the men have left.Lie Detector: Featured in "The Best Policy".All this, mind, without a single human hand at the controls! He placed a coin in the mechanism, and the marvelous machine - but one of the many mechanical marvels of the age - recorded his passage on a small dial and automatically added the value of this coin to the total theretofore accumulated. Threading his way through the crowds which thronged the vaulted interior of the terminal, he came to a turnstile, an artifact not unlike a rimless wheel, whose spokes revolved to allow his passage. Inertial Damping: Spoofed in "Backstage Lensmen":.Lovecraft takeoff "The Horror Out of Time" starts off as apparently a typical Lovecraftian tale of a first-person narrator having a mind-bending encounter amidst prehistoric ruins, but it eventually becomes clear that the narrator is not human, and that the human race is the horrible creatures depicted on the walls of the ruins. She is the resident expert on that particular robot, and an assistant to the lead on the project. Precocious child, special schooling, early college and doctorate, beautiful skin, curves in all the right places, clear blue eyes, sleek red hair. Hot Scientist: The backstory of Unwise Child has the robot scientists bring in a child psychologist to help them develop their latest AI.Horse of a Different Color: In the Gandalara Cycle, the only animals big enough to ride are presentient and telepathic pantherids called sha'um (which translates to "great cat").Future Slang: "Backstage Lensmen" dials up the future slang common in the Lensman series to the point where none of the characters actually understand each other.Feghoot: Randall invented his own variant, where the final line would be a pun on the name of another science fiction writer.Fantasy Contraception: In the Gandalara Cycle, the women of a Human Subspecies are completely aware of their own fertility.Exact Words: Exploited along with an Expospeak Gag and convenient omission of key details in "The Best Policy" to paint an image of humanity as an immensely powerful race with a vast empire and telekinetic powers.Afterwards, he muses that he was probably assumed to be a god - specifically, Thor, with his "hammer" that creates thunder, kills distant enemies, and returns to his hand. He uses his pistol to help the locals defeat the "giants" before being returned to the present. Demythification: "Frost and Thunder" has the main character time-transported to ancient Scandanavia.Dead Guy Junior: At the end of "The Queen Bee," the lobotomized Elissa's first child is named Tina after one of the women she killed.The only known telepath who is neither catatonic nor a gibbering wreck, she is not only compos mentis, she's arguably the sanest and most sensible character in the book - except that she's unshakeably convinced that she's a 400-year-old immortal who used to be Queen Elizabeth I. Crazy Sane: Miss Thompson, the title character of "That Sweet Little Old Lady".By the end of the questioning, he has them believing that humans are incredibly powerful beings and that he's only humoring them them to be polite. he says that human minds are capable of channeling certain physical energies to travel from place to place - a literal description of walking that gives the impression that humans have the power of psychic teleportation). He realizes that he can exploit their ignorance with true but misleading statements (e.g. Consummate Liar: In "The Best Policy", the human protagonist is interrogated under a lie detector by aliens gathering intelligence for an invasion.He manages to give them a description in which every sentence is technically true, but the overall effect is a misleading picture of humans who possess immense powers, and the aliens are frightened off. Bluffing the Advance Scout: In "The Best Policy", alien advance scouts kidnap a human, stick him in a lie detector, and order him to describe Earth."Of course! The principle of the double negative! Two negaspheres make a posisphere! Our Gray Lensman has genius, Sir Houston!" The Starboard Admiral slammed his palm against the desk.
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