Allusions/references To Other Works
- Ice makes one allusion to Star Trek, and specifically to the fabled technology of food preparation in the twenty-third century.
- Ice also makes an allusion to the motion picture Dr. Strangelove, when astronaut Shepherd states that a "war room" on the Lunar base reminds him of a similar room in that film.
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