Chockhawk is a tribute to work on the flight line. Fight or flight, learn to fly. Born Between the Void is a tribute to Orson Scott Card's creation, Jane. An artificial intelligence that appears in Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. Speaker for the Dead focuses on Ender Wiggin as he travels around looking for a suitable planet for the Hive Queen. Children of the Mind spends its time describing the tragic integration of the colony, Lusitania, with the native alien life and its manifestation in human biology as the descolada. A cure is only possible by breaking free of spacetime and reaching the dimension, Outside, the place of souls.