12/27/2022 0 Comments Coffee buzz stwars![]() ![]() COFFEE BUZZ STWARS FULLIn the Ciaphas Cain books, the title character claims to have once fought his way single-handed through a continent full of Orks just to get a bowl of Tanna Tea! But he will also drink "Re-caff" as well, which is recycled caffeine.In the Chronicles of the Warlands trilogy, it's kavage.Cherryh have the cat-like aliens drinking gfi. Trudi Canavan has "raka" for coffee (drunk by slum dwellers) and "sumi" for tea (staple for the upper classes).In Brave New World, one nurse is told to go relax and have a cup of caffeine solution.Debuted in Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars. Fleegix, a watery, hot chocolate-like beverage that is made from the berries of the four zitzkis bushes that grow only on the summit of the mountain-city of Lenny in the existential plane of Waka-Waka and drunk out of ceremonial Lucite-handled thermal cups, shows up a lot in the sillier Daniel Pinkwater novels.(The latter is indicated to be, at best, an acquired taste for most ponies (and a near-addiction for Cadance).) Little is known about the beverage other than its color (creamy yellow), the fact that it's plant-based - and those same plants, if raised in the vicinity of wild magic, are the source of the Fantastic Drug Exam Crystal. ![]() Unusually, this beverage explicitly exists alongside tea and coffee. The Triptych Continuum features wake-up juice as the stimulant drink of pony choice.Vine-coffee is basically "real" coffee, caf is the cheap and nasty artificial version, and coffeine and stimcaf appear to be somewhere in the middle. The Star Trek: Voyager/ Star Wars crossover " There's Coffee in That Galaxy (Far, Far Away) " by thisbluespirit differentiates between Star Wars's uncoffees (see below).Bob, who is often portrayed as a Nervous Wreck by the fandom, gets through a worrying amount. The Next Frontier runs with "a liquid it is convenient to call coffee".There's also the buzz bean brew which is the closest thing they have to Klatchian Coffee. In Empath: The Luckiest Smurf, the beverage is referred to as cinnamon tree bark brew or acorn brew.Jaleh Khoroushi, the Iranian ops officer and Token Human, lampshades it, thinking that it's funny how every species in the galaxy seems to have come up with some variation of a hot beverage with stimulant properties. Unfortunately, "replicated just tastes fake", so she's stuck. Morgan flavors the recipe used on the Aen'rhien with khellid honey and spices (making it sort of like chai), but her tactical officer Sahuel complains that it's too sweet that way. Aen'rhien Vailiuri has the Romulans quaffing a highly caffeinated bitter tea.Nick Lowe, of "The Well-Tempered Plot-Device" fame, has suggested that this is a vicious cycle: you have writer's block, you drink coffee, you start thinking about coffee, and you mistake this for your writer's block clearing up. Sometimes authors justify it by saying that coffee exists in-universe, but the beverage in question isn't really coffee, or is a specific form of coffee that everyone inexplicably prefers to all other forms.Ĭan be considered a Sub-Trope of Most Writers Are Writers: anyone who's ever struggled with Writer's Block will feel they owe a debt of gratitude to the drink, and a brief cameo is the least they could do. Apparently coffee itself is too mundane to talk about alternately, authors of Medieval European Fantasy may want to avoid it because it wasn't common in Europe until the 17th century. Every single Speculative Fiction setting comes with a hot, mildly stimulant beverage that can take the place of coffee, and more often than not has a name that sounds very much like "coffee". ![]()
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