More Differences Between Timelines

"Lyle Monroe" was an early pen name for Robert Heinlein. Thus, a new Magister Lazarus novel by Lyle Monroe is the Operation... universe equivalent of a new Lazarus Long novel by Robert Heinlein. Personally, I like only the first Lazarus Long novel, Methuselah's Children, but maybe the Magister Lazarus series is better? And probably, in the goetic universe, Magister Lazarus not only lives long but pulls a resurrection stunt?

Japanese authorities are Shinto, not secular;

Chinese are Taoist, not Maoist;

IRS means "Inquisition for Revenue Securement," not "Internal Revenue Service." (There is an obvious remark here so let's not make it.)

Their equivalent of von Braun is al-Bunni. My wife, a Modern Languages graduate, tells me that "braun" is German for "brown." Steve Matuchek tells us that "bunni" is Arabic for "brown," despite the rabbit connotation which the reader must notice and which a satirical cartoon exploits.

The Operation... timeline includes an equivalent of someone who is real to us and also of someone who is fictitious to us. They have an "...insidious Dr Fu Ch'ing..." (Operation Luna, New York, 2000, p. 61). Googling "Fu Ch'ing" discloses that there was a real one and that he was a Manchu. This fictitious Dr Fu is a Chinese secret agent operating so independently that:

" 'There are times when he is the Chinese government." (p. 62)

Mycroft Holmes coordinated so much government intelligence that in a sense it was true to say that he was the government.

I am in haste on a sunny Sunday afternoon but Operation Luna continues to entertain.