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110-452: A T. rex . Furious at his treachery, Nevis kills the dying Anittas. Meanwhile, Waan, Lion, and Tuf have found the armory, but have split up due to disagreements on leadership. They quickly discover that the air is poisoned with various plagues, which Waan determines using one of Tuf's cats, Mushroom. Tuf recognizes that Mushroom is infected by the plagues and is dying, and kills him gently, preventing Mushroom's further suffering. He discovers
165-450: A barrage of other creatures to directly counteract the monsters. This strategy, initially successful, soon fails as the monsters gain resistance to these otherworldly creatures. Tuf goes back to work, and manages to find a solution. Through his psionically enhanced cat, he discovers a previously unsuspected sapient species native to Namor: the mudpots. Sessile, aquatic bottom-dwellers (which had hitherto been considered dietary delicacies by
220-1221: A beauty and variety store based in Tijuana, Mexico Dax Cars , British sports car manufacturer Honda Dax , a motorcycle model US Dax , a rugby union club based in France People [ edit ] People with the given name [ edit ] Dax Cowart (1947–2019), American attorney Dax Dellenbach (born 1990), American football player Dax ExclamationPoint , American drag queen Dax Fulton (born 2001), American baseball player Dax Griffin (born 1972), American actor Dax Harwood (born 1984), American professional wrestler Dax Holdren (born 1972), American beach volleyball player Dax McCarty (born 1987), American soccer player Dax Milne (born 1999), American football player Dax O'Callaghan (born 1986), English singer, dancer and actor Dax Reynosa (born 1969/1970), American hip hop artist and producer and smooth jazz musician Dax Phelan (born 1975), American screenwriter, producer, and director, Dax Pierson (born 1970), American musician Dax Riggs (born 1973), American musician, lyricist, and vocalist for
275-1103: A beauty and variety store based in Tijuana, Mexico Dax Cars , British sports car manufacturer Honda Dax , a motorcycle model US Dax , a rugby union club based in France People [ edit ] People with the given name [ edit ] Dax Cowart (1947–2019), American attorney Dax Dellenbach (born 1990), American football player Dax ExclamationPoint , American drag queen Dax Fulton (born 2001), American baseball player Dax Griffin (born 1972), American actor Dax Harwood (born 1984), American professional wrestler Dax Holdren (born 1972), American beach volleyball player Dax McCarty (born 1987), American soccer player Dax Milne (born 1999), American football player Dax O'Callaghan (born 1986), English singer, dancer and actor Dax Reynosa (born 1969/1970), American hip hop artist and producer and smooth jazz musician Dax Phelan (born 1975), American screenwriter, producer, and director, Dax Pierson (born 1970), American musician Dax Riggs (born 1973), American musician, lyricist, and vocalist for
330-554: A bureaucrat", says Tuf to Kreen, "and thus good for virtually nothing") and the religious tyranny of Moses' Holy Altruistic Restoration. Finally, in "Manna from Heaven" (1985), he provides the S'uthlamese and their enemies with an irrevocable solution that simultaneously averts both famine and war but covertly imposes birth control upon the "religious crazies" of S'uthlam's Church of Life Evolving (characterized as "anti-entropists, kiddie-culters, helix-humpers, genepool puddlers"), forcing Mune to accept Tuf's induced population implosion as
385-558: A cyborg, to invade the ship's circuits. In the process, Anittas's suit is torn, and he contracts a plague from the air. Alarmed by this brutality and worried Nevis will use his suit's power to subjugate her as well, Dawnstar runs away from Nevis, ultimately finding the vast seedship's control room. Anittas, meanwhile, betrays Nevis, releasing several of the ship's macroscopic bioweapons, including acid-spitting "hellkittens"; hyper-aggressive, carnivorous, bat-like creatures; spider-like, unimaginably sharp-edged organisms known as "walking webs"; and
440-441: A grenade, destroying herself along with the hellkittens. Lion, meanwhile, sets a trap for Nevis in a corridor by rigging a plasma cannon to go off only when objects of certain dimensions, such as Nevis's battle-suit, pass in front of it. While luring Nevis toward the trap, however, he is killed and partly eaten by the bat-like creature. Rica Dawnstar, in charge of the control room, uses reverse psychology to trick Nevis into meeting
495-492: A grim prediction. Finding that most of his clients' problems arise not primarily from true ecological catastrophes but rather as the result of their cupidity, stupidity, bureaucracy, religious fanaticism and bloody-mindedness, he resolves their situations by addressing their failings, beginning (in the earliest published story, 1976's "A Beast for Norn") with rendering it impossible for the Great Houses of Lyronica to continue
550-581: A large influence on his Tuf stories, and he emulated Vance's writing style in most of them. In 2006, Tuf Voyaging was nominated for a Seiun Award in Japan for translated long form novel. Several of the individual stories have also been honored. In 1982, "Guardians" won the Locus Award for Best Novelette and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette . In the 1986 Analog Readers Poll in
605-520: A musical instrument invented by Hans Reichel Detroit Air Xpress , a public transit service in Metro Detroit See also [ edit ] DAX1 , a protein involved in sex determination DACS (disambiguation) Daxter , a fictional character Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dax . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
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715-554: A not-very-successful trader. Their destination is a so-called " plague star," known to inflict disease and pestilence on every third generation of a small, remote world. It turns out to be an enormous, abandoned seedship of the long-defunct Federal Empire's Ecological Engineering Corps, developed by the Corps to rewrite genetic coding for entire planets, for good or for ill. Tuf's ship, the Cornucopia of Excellent Goods at Low Prices ,
770-475: A period of time. The authorities, with striking proof of the Ark' s capabilities, now begin scheming to bring it in their possession. Mune, disgusted with the politics of the situation, assists Tuf in escaping from S'uthlam, despite the fact that this places her in a precarious position. He informs her that he will return to pay off his debt. Tuf finds himself at Namor, an oceanic world where sea monsters are attacking
825-433: A powerful weapon of war. In an attempt to secure it, Portmaster Tolly Mune kidnaps one of Tuf's cats. She makes a bet with Tuf – if he will solve S'uthlam's impending famine, she will return his cat and give him monetary credits for the ship's repairs. If he loses the bet, S'uthlam will keep the seedship. Tuf at first reasonably proposes that the S'uthlamese simply restrict their incontinent reproductive practices, but because
880-571: A primitivist religious leader named Moses. Taking his cues from the Bible , Moses had unleashed plagues on the inhabitants of the arcology, driving them out of their city into the countryside to labor and suffer under Moses' back-to-nature Holy Altruistic Restoration. Kreen had attempted to murder Tuf because he blames Moses' plagues upon Tuf, who has gained an interstellar reputation as an ecological engineer, and Tuf realizes that Moses' "plagues" (actually low-tech simulations easily imposed by sabotage upon
935-472: A query language used by Microsoft software products DAX (application) , a film and television production workflow application Microsoft Dynamics AX , an enterprise resource planning software Other uses [ edit ] Dax (rapper) , stage name of Canadian rapper, singer, and songwriter Daniel Nwosu Dax (typeface) , a sans-serif typeface designed by Hans Reichel Dax Riders , French techno/synth-funk band funded by Oliver Dax Daxophone ,
990-472: A query language used by Microsoft software products DAX (application) , a film and television production workflow application Microsoft Dynamics AX , an enterprise resource planning software Other uses [ edit ] Dax (rapper) , stage name of Canadian rapper, singer, and songwriter Daniel Nwosu Dax (typeface) , a sans-serif typeface designed by Hans Reichel Dax Riders , French techno/synth-funk band funded by Oliver Dax Daxophone ,
1045-423: A world of gods. This is in spite of evidence that this population explosion will lead, as it has many times in the past, to famine and S'uthlamese attempts at military conquest of adjoining star systems. Once the S'uthlamese become aware of the Ark and its capabilities, they want to seize it for themselves to use it as both a resource to wring higher caloric production from their star system's biology, and also as
1100-663: Is a 1986 science fiction fix-up novel by American writer George R. R. Martin , first published in hardcover by Baen Books . It is a darkly comic meditation on environmentalism and absolute power. This novel is a collection of related short fiction works , originally published over several years, beginning with 1976's "A Beast for Norn". The book includes a prologue and Martin's S'uthlam storyline (published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact ), adding them as bridging material, and gathering them with other Tuf stories into one episodic novel. The novel concerns
1155-418: Is an unassuming and rather inept interstellar trader, of humble and somewhat bland (on the surface) nature, with an aversion to human contact, and a love of cats. As the story progresses, Tuf's character is revealed to be that of Piper 's self-reliant man , as the power of the Ark allows him to solve the apparently intractable problems of several worlds. Mune, in explaining why she was helping him escape with
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#17327658569581210-461: Is beginning to break down and either a terrible war or utter social collapse seems likely. Tuf labors to find a solution, and calls a meeting of all the worlds about to clash. He presents to them his solution: an edible, mildly addictive plant called " manna ", which will freely grow everywhere on S'uthlam and eliminate its hunger problems. After some arm-twisting, in which Tuf threatens to use the military might of his seedship against anyone who refuses,
1265-459: Is damaged by the seedship's automated defenses, and three of the occupants, Nevis, Anittas, and Dawnstar, board the seedship by means of pressure suits, betraying and leaving the others to await eventual death through asphyxiation. However, Tuf locates a microchip allowing him, Waan, and Lion to land the Cornucopia safely on the seedship. Nevis, who has stolen a bulky but extremely powerful alien exoskeleton from Tuf's ship, violently forces Anittas,
1320-422: Is to be found not aboard my Ark , but in the minds and loins of each individual S'uthlamese citizen. You must practice restraint and implement immediate birth control. You must stop your indiscriminate procreation at once! This is received with predictable religious outrage, and Mune is barely able to extract Tuf from the clutches of an angry S'uthlamese mob. Tuf is approached by Herold Norn, senior beastmaster of
1375-458: The Ark in the first of the S'uthlam stories, says that "Power corrupts . . . and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (an uncredited quotation of the ancient dictum by Lord Acton ). Mune further says that she doesn't think that there is such a thing as an incorruptible man, but if there is, Tuf is it. She also says that she wouldn't trust the leaders of her world with the potentially terrible biowarfare capabilities of Ark. Eventually this becomes
1430-401: The Ark , to the world of S'uthlam (an anagram for Malthus ) for extensive repairs. S'uthlam is a world on the verge of war with all of the nearby inhabited worlds, as it requires a constant flow of resources to the planet. This is due to the world's continuing population explosion, a result of the S'uthlamese religious belief that unfettered and unchecked human reproduction will one day lead to
1485-434: The (mis)adventures of Haviland Tuf, an exceptionally tall, bald, very pale, overweight, phlegmatic, vegetarian, cat-loving-but-otherwise solitary space trader. Tuf inadvertently becomes the master of the Ark , an ancient, 30-kilometre-long (19 mi) "seedship" – a very powerful warship with advanced ecological engineering capabilities – after a deal between several of his venal and cutthroat passengers goes awry. Tuf travels
1540-524: The Biblical plagues of legend, but these are widespread planetary ecological assaults instead of Moses' fraudulent localized afflictions. After two such attacks, Tuf invites Moses aboard the Ark and shows him simulations of the increasingly horrible plagues that he could further inflict upon Moses and his followers. Moses, frightened, gives up his claim on the arcology's population, allowing them to escape his nasty, brutish religious fanaticism and return to
1595-531: The House of Norn. As the House of Norn racks up victories with their cobalcats, Tuf is approached seriatim by the other houses for ever-more-lethally-effective beasts (and compatible prey animals), until the greatest of the Houses, namely House Arneth-in-the-Gilded-Wood at last approaches him for a beast and also with a demand for him to cease all further dealings with the Houses of Lyronica. Tuf graciously accepts
1650-538: The Landes département of France Canton of Dax-1 , or Canton de Dax Nord, a subdivision of the arrondissement Canton of Dax-2 , or Canton de Dax Sud, a subdivision of the arrondissement Dax, Landes , a town in France Dax Cathedral , cathedral in the town Dazhou Heshi Airport (IATA code), China Science and technology [ edit ] DAX or Data analysis expressions ,
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1760-927: The Louisiana metal band Acid Bath Dax Shepard (born 1975), American actor Dax (rapper) (born 1994), stagename of Nigerian Canadian rapper Daniel Nwosu Jr. Dax, nickname for Davide Cesare (1977–2003), Italian antifascist activist Mr. DAX, nickname for Dirk Müller , German stock trader People with the surname [ edit ] Elsa Dax (born 1972), French visual artist Eric Cunningham Dax (1908 – 2008), Australian psychiatrist Danielle Dax (born 1958), British musician Guiraude de Dax (c. 1100 – c. 1130), Gascon heiress Marc Dax (1770–1837), French neurologist Fictional characters [ edit ] Dax ( Power Rangers ) , character in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive Dax ( Star Trek ) , character from
1815-776: The Louisiana metal band Acid Bath Dax Shepard (born 1975), American actor Dax (rapper) (born 1994), stagename of Nigerian Canadian rapper Daniel Nwosu Jr. Dax, nickname for Davide Cesare (1977–2003), Italian antifascist activist Mr. DAX, nickname for Dirk Müller , German stock trader People with the surname [ edit ] Elsa Dax (born 1972), French visual artist Eric Cunningham Dax (1908 – 2008), Australian psychiatrist Danielle Dax (born 1958), British musician Guiraude de Dax (c. 1100 – c. 1130), Gascon heiress Marc Dax (1770–1837), French neurologist Fictional characters [ edit ] Dax ( Power Rangers ) , character in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive Dax ( Star Trek ) , character from
1870-488: The Namorian colonists), they are linked telepathically into a kind of hivemind, controlling the lesser species of life on the planet as skilled bio-engineers. Tuf establishes communications with the mudpots and brokers a peace agreement whereby his human employers agree to cease eating the planet's autochthonous intelligent species. He gives the leaders of Namor psionically enhanced kittens to facilitate their dealings with
1925-586: The Norn House of Lyronica. The House of Norn requests beasts for gladiatorial fighting in Lyronica's Bronze Arena. After seeing an example of the Arena battles (and, it is strongly implied, being appalled by its barbarity), Tuf agrees to provide a breeding stock of cobalcats ( and a stock of innocuous-looking prey animals from the cobalcats' homeworld to be released into the cobalcats' new Lyronican habitat) for
1980-409: The S'uthlamese fixation is fanatic, it is impervious to reason. They will not control their population growth , and thus drive obsessively into a suicidal future of starvation and war . Tuf works on the problem, and manages to find a solution whereby he uses the seedship's capabilities to provide exotic plants and animals which can yield sustenance for the population, thus staving off starvation for
2035-458: The cloning room of the seedship, and clones Mushroom using the ship's equipment, naming the new cat Chaos. Waan is found by the hellkittens, which spray her with acid and corrode her helmet, impairing her vision. Disbelieving Tuf's warning, she takes her helmet off and contracts a plague. When the hellkittens return to eat her, she is not only weakened by illness but unprotected by her helmet. Though mostly paralyzed and dying, she manages to activate
2090-406: The closed system of an arcology) offer him an opportunity for revenue. Kreen is sent down to the planet to bring back the former leaders of the now-conquered and evacuated arcology for negotiations, and Tuf offers to help them against Moses for a hefty fee. Using the Ark' s technology, Tuf introduces himself to Moses as God , in the guise of a pillar of fire. He afflicts the followers of Moses with
2145-510: The comforts of modern civilization. Tuf returns to S'uthlam for the second time to pay off the last of his debt. This time, S'uthlam is on the brink of war with the allied forces of the neighboring worlds. Mune, now First Councillor or planetary leader, comes aboard the Ark to discuss with Tuf the possibility of acquiring the seedship for S'uthlam's own purposes. S'uthlam's population problem remains, worse than ever, as Tuf's innovations from his previous visit were not maximally used. Its society
2200-493: The fallout of helping Tuf escape with Ark ). However, paradoxically, the overpopulation crisis has become even worse due to the S'uthlamese people's over-optimistic response to Tuf's Flowering, increasing their reproduction rates. Tuf works on trying to provide even more-efficient crops and animals. He also insists on delivering a planet-wide speech detailing the enhancements he had in mind for S'uthlam and concluding with an explicit admonition: The only true and permanent solution
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2310-568: The galaxy, offering his services to worlds with environmental problems, and sometimes imposing solutions of his own. The stories in Tuf Voyaging are set in the same fictional "Thousand Worlds" universe as several of Martin's other works, including Dying of the Light , Sandkings , Nightflyers , A Song for Lya and " The Way of Cross and Dragon ". Martin cited fantasy fiction and science fiction Grand Master Jack Vance as having
2365-490: The gladitorial animal contests of the Bronze Arena. On Namor, he finds a solution: seeking out contact with the previously unsuspected native sapient race that had escaped the "fighting guild" of unthinkingly truculent Guardians to end the attacks being inflicted upon the human colonists by the planet's mudpot hivemind. On Charity, he copes with both the incompetence of the arcology's administrators ("[Y]ou are by training
2420-402: The hostile worlds agree to an armistice. Tuf later tells a horrified Mune that the manna will indeed feed her people, but will also inhibit the libidos of the S'uthlamese and cause widespread, but not universal, infertility. He leaves Mune to make a momentous decision for S'uthlam; it is implied that she accepts the provision of manna to forestall war and famine. In the beginning of the novel Tuf
2475-437: The large predators upon which the gladiatorial contests had originally depended, thus leading to the (unstated) end of the Bronze Arena. While peaceably eating in a restaurant, Tuf is attacked by Jaime Kreen. Kreen is convicted for the attack and bonded to Tuf as a servant in debt. Kreen explains that his society (a technologically advanced secondary colony established as an arcology on the planet Charity) has been taken over by
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2640-476: The local population. As always, he offers to assist for a fee. Before diving into creating the creatures needed to battle the monsters, Tuf begins to study the planet in order to determine why the monsters are attacking the people of Namor. However, during this study, the Namorians grow more desperate and impatient, especially as monsters able to walk on land begin to appear. Tuf's hand is forced, and he unleashes
2695-442: The mudpots, and departs. Tuf returns to S'uthlam to pay the first part of his debt. He is hailed as a hero due to the advancements in the overcrowded world's food production, now known as "Tuf's Flowering". This is also due to Tuf and Mune , a highly inaccurate, overly-dramatized movie about Tuf's first adventure on S'uthlam, the creation of which Mune encouraged to build public support for Tuf's plan (and save her political skin from
2750-412: The novella/novelette category, "Loaves and Fishes" won and "Manna from Heaven" took second place. The story begins with four people requiring interstellar transport: Celise Waan, a scholar of anthropology ; Jefri Lion, a scholar and retired soldier; Anittas, a cybertech ; and Kaj Nevis, the leader of the expedition. They hire Rica Dawnstar, a mercenary bodyguard, and acquire the services of Haviland Tuf,
2805-512: The offer. Norn returns to Tuf to complain about the cobalcats not mating (and about the prey species reproducing without effective suppression and overrunning the Norn lands, making it impossible for the House of Norn to return to breeding their original Arena beasts). Tuf gets the last laugh, as the introduction of the various prey species into each House's territory irrevocably changes the regional ecosystem such that all become incapable of sustaining
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#17327658569582860-419: The only alternative to social breakdown and genocide. In a February 2013 post, Martin wrote on his website that, from time to time, he is asked by fans about writing more Tuf stories, and said that he hopes to do so again someday. He also hinted that he thought Irish actor Conleth Hill , who plays Varys on HBO 's Game of Thrones , based on his bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series, would be
2915-577: The television show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Dax" , an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Dax Xenos, a character in the Harold Robbins novel The Adventurers , later adapted into a film also titled The Adventurers Colonel Dax, character in the film Paths of Glory Dax, character on The Philanthropist Dax, one of Haviland Tuf's cats in the series Tuf Voyaging , first seen in "Guardians" Places [ edit ] Arrondissement of Dax , an arrondissement of
2970-513: The television show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Dax" , an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Dax Xenos, a character in the Harold Robbins novel The Adventurers , later adapted into a film also titled The Adventurers Colonel Dax, character in the film Paths of Glory Dax, character on The Philanthropist Dax, one of Haviland Tuf's cats in the series Tuf Voyaging , first seen in "Guardians" Places [ edit ] Arrondissement of Dax , an arrondissement of
3025-422: The walking web, which kills him. She then offers Tuf the chance to leave peacefully, but on his refusal, attempts to kill him with the psi -controlled T. Rex. But Tuf has discovered Lion's plasma-cannon trap; he lures Dawnstar and the dinosaur into its line of fire, killing them. Tuf then takes control of the seedship as the only surviving claimant. Haviland Tuf takes his newly acquired seedship, which he has named
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