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15 · Let's Rod 'Em

Operation: Damocles by Oscar L. FellowsReviewed (but not read) by Khaki & K.  In which: K is hip with the kids' lingo and teaches Khaki lots of Space Things. Khaki explains his "photographic memory" and forgets the word "photo". Bookmarked passages: introducing Guinevere, no lasers in space, everything Icarus, the graveyard orbit, useless code names, Fortynite dances, is a jetpack a spacecraft, the secret city of Delaware, Camp Sandyballs, Navajo verb categorization, a three-way fuster-cluck, LSD all over again, agent Patroclus B, not a lot of Sapphic myths, hover-converted C-130, more than tungsten rods, the Gay Belt, Velibraraptor breeding program, a good Greek number  "No, but the camera person doesn't have to be on the on the moon." "That's just bad spacemanship, really." "It's very... how to put it. – Stupid?Cinematic. It's very cinematic." "I'm going to tell Kerbal Space program you don't know that off the top of your head." Find CoverMyAssCast on Twitter, Gmail and the good old-fashioned web.

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