Status Updates From The Moon Pool

As was the irritating fashion at the time, this book begins with a completely unnecessary and uninteresting prologue that insists, "This is a true story that really, actually happened! Look at all the tedious bureaucratic and legal details we mention to prove it!" And it claims that A. Merritt was selected by scientists to tell this true story in a form suitable for non-scientists.

"You scientific people build up whole philosophies on the basis of things you never saw, and you scoff at people who believe in other things that you think they never saw and that don't come under what you label scientific."

Can you really call a guy who believes in leprechauns superstitious after finding a lost civilization of Dwarfs and Frog people underground?

"Grimly Larry reached down and drew from his uniform his automatic. He popped a fresh clip into the pocket fold of his girdle. The pistol he slung high up beneath his arm-pit."

Umm, it's a magazine.

"and here in this place may be that will enable my country to win its war for the worker. What are the lives of you two and this sailor to that? Less than the flies I crush with my hand, less than midges in the sunbeam!"

This is the moment you decide not to trust the Communist Scientist.