>Ye gods (and goddesses, of course, can't forget Skuld!), I haven't
>laughed so hard in weeks. Wapiko's definitely her mother's daughter.

Well, not -entirely.- Wapiko's very intelligent (and obviously very strong) but she doesn't give a wet slap about science.

>I also noticed another throwaway reference to the Utoniums. (Utonia?)
>Are they ever going to show up in person, or are y'all just going to
>keep teasing us?

Maybe. Eventually. Someday. Perhaps. Depending on story completions.

>Nitpick:
>
>Citizens of Galveston, Brazoria, Harris, Chambers, and Liberty
>counties are to be on the lookout for this creature, shown here
>setting fire to an abandoned petroleum refinery in Lake Jackson.
>
>Unless something's changed since I moved to Baton Rouge in January
>1999, I don't seem to remember any refineries in Lake Jackson.

At the moment, you'd be right...

> All the
>plants and refineries and such are technically in Freeport and the
>surrounding really tiny towns.

Presuming Freeport and such towns still existed. Freeport pretty much ceased to exist during the Fourth World War, and the Third Texas Revolution finished it off. The oil companies rebuilt further inland, and since they already owned most of Lake Jackson...

(For those who don't know, Lake Jackson is one of the few towns to survive which was begun as a work camp for an oil field. It's a little less than ten miles further inland than Freeport, and about the same size. Both lie about sixty miles south of Houston, which Gaos overflew in the story en route to the story.)

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