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—pp. 86-89, 95: Aahh, Ed’s deliciously wicked, smartass sense of humor shines through again and again!

—p. 68: No Place Like Home Sputnik III carried a dog, Laika, into orbit. ‘Telegram from Moscow: Laika has gone crazy!’ ‘Crazy?" ‘Yes: With joy that she was allowed to leave the USSR!’
Good dog/Khoroshaya sobaka! Sniff-sniff-sniff, BUH-WUH-WUH-WUH-WOOH!

—p. 68: No Place Like Home Sputnik III carried a dog, Laika, into orbit. ‘Telegram from Moscow: Laika has gone crazy!’ ‘Crazy?" ‘Yes: With joy that she was allowed to leave the USSR!’
Good dog/Khoroshaya sobaka! Sniff-sniff-sniff, BUH-WUH-WUH-WUH-WOOH!

Rolaff the Headhunter? Like Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner (RIP Warren Zevon).

"You don't say Thank God any more," a propagandist corrected one of his students. "You say Thank Stalin." "And when Stalin dies?" asked the student. "Then you can say Thank God!" says a voice from the back of the hall.

Oh well, at least Capt. Hart is a cigar smoker, I’ll give him that much!

In “Zero Hour,” for some reason I picture Harrison Ford and Kate Capshaw as Henry and Mary Morris, Karen Allen as Helen, and the Caroline Kennedy (as a little girl, that is, not the adult version) as Mink.

In “The Man,” Capt. Hart’s attitude reminds me of that the unnamed Capt. in “The Earth Man” story of “The Martian Chronicles,” i.e. naively expecting the inhabitants of another planet to throw him a parade.
Lame!

—p. 53: A KGB officer carrying a Western “capitalist” pistol like the Walther PPK? Shouldn’t he be carrying a Makarov (”Pistolet
Makarova”) instead?