“If you like this,” Busby Spence’s father said, “we can build a shortwave radio next week.”
Busby smiled at his father, and they discovered they were nodding at each other.
While the war roared toward its end, toward victory for the Allies—while planes flew over the sea and politicians met and commanders stood on the decks of ships—a father and a son leaned over the radio the two of them had made. They brought the earpiece up between them. They both bent over it as close as they could. They listened together.
And oh—the things they heard.
APPENDIX A:
COURSE CATALOG FOR MRS. DASH’S ALMA MATER, THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ASTRONOMIC SCIENCE
The American Academy of Astronomic Science
Course Catalog
REQUIRED COURSES
All students studying for an astronomy degree are required to take the following three courses as part of the core curriculum:
Xenobiology 101. This class will introduce students to the study of alien life-forms and their saucers. The course will cover bug-eyed monsters, towering invaders (both silent and roaring), blobs, and cosmic parasites that grow up in our guts and get mean. Those interested in studying alien life-forms that come from other planets but look basically like people, except that they talk in a wooden, badly acted way, may take the upper-level seminar “Humanoids: The Pleasures and Pitfalls.”
Rays 101. This class will introduce students to the basic forms of rays you may need to identify in your astronomical work. It will cover death rays, disintegration rays, heat rays, paralysis rays, and, for the sake of completeness, stingrays.
Extraterrestrial Technology 101. This course will discuss how the ambitious student can master alien mind-reading helmets, spacecraft, and time machines after only three or four minutes of tinkering. Successful lab reports should end with exclamations of, “By George! I think I’ve got it!”
ELECTIVE COURSES
In addition to the courses listed above, students may take the following courses if their schedule allows.
Outer Space 201. A few astronomers who are particularly interested in space may want to continue their studies and try to learn something about stars, galaxies, and other celestial bodies such as the Horsehead Nebula. This course includes such topics as: the Milky Way, Jupiter’s moons, your own star sign, and both Dippers.
M. T. ANDERSON is a particle wave originating in the region of the constellation Scorpio. Previous coded signals received from the Anderson Wave include the five other Pals in Peril books; the Norumbegan Quartet; Feed (winner of a 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize); and The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party (winner of the National Book Award). Direct exposure to M. T. Anderson can cause sunburn. Interested readers should insulate themselves in aluminum foil. M. T. Anderson divides his time between matter and the void.
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Anderson, M. T.
He laughed with his other mouths / M.T. Anderson; illustrations by Kurt Cyrus. — First edition.
pages cm — (A pals in peril tale; [6])
Summary: “In this sixth Pals in Peril adventure, Jasper Dash is off into the universe to search for his long lost father!”—Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-1-4424-5110-0 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-1-4424-5115-5 (ebook)
[1. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 2. Extraterrestrial beings—Fiction.
3. Humorous stories.] I. Cyrus, Kurt, illustrations. II. Title.
PZ7.A54395He 2014
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M. T. Anderson, He Laughed With His Other Mouths
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