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"'Buster'?"
"My grandson. The one who is now chief surgeon at Ceres General. For eleven
years we wrote them together, frustrating the Galactic Overlord at every turn-"
"'The Galactic Overlord!' The best villain in the creepies. Honey, I wish
there were really a Galactic Overlord."
"Why, you young whippersnapper, how dare you throw doubt on the
authenticity of the Galactic Overlord? What do you know about it?"
"Sorry. I apologize. He's as real as Luna City. Or John Sterling would not
have had anyone to frustrate ... and I certainly believe in Captain John
Sterling of the Star Patrol."
"That's better."
"That time Captain Sterling was lost in the Horsehead Nebula with the
radiation worms after him: How did he get out? That was one of the times I was
being punished and not allowed to watch."
"As I recall- Mind you, this was some years back. I seem to recall that he
jury-rigged his Doppler radar to fry them with polarized beams."
"No, that was what he used on the space entities."
"Richard, are you sure? I don't think he encountered the space entities
until after he escaped from the Horsehead Nebula. When he had to make a
temporary truce with the Galactic Overlord to save the Galaxy."
I thought about it. How old was I at the time? What year in school? "Hon, I
do believe you're right. I was upset that he would join forces with the Overlord
even to save the Galaxy
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