Wow.

[labellementeuse]

I winced. The purpose of this kind of submarine was a little embarrassing to explain to an alien. [Actually, Ax, it's a military submarine. See the rows of hatches along the back? It's a nuclear missile sub. There's a missile under each of those hatches. Armed with a nuclear warhead.]
      [Ah. I see.]
      [It's deterrence. You know, in case the enemy uses nukes on use, we have these safe on our subs,] Marco explained.
      [What enemy?]
      [Well... okay, we don't exactly have one right now,] I said, feeling fairly idiotic. [But we used to. And we may get one again.]
      [We're shopping at all the sales,] Marco said brightly. [Enemies "R" Us, EnemyMart, J C Enemy. Don't worry, we'll find one.]

- Megamorphs 2: In the Time of the Dinosaurs, K. A. Applegate, Scholastic: 1998.

1. These books are actually fairly smart.
2. This was a really shocking passage to re-read in 2009.

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I fucking loved that book. Animorphs in general was amazing, really, but you cannot beat Animorphs + dinosaurs + Ax being confused. That they have fallen out of popularity is a damn tragedy.

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