FWIW I am fairly sure the name is a reference to an old Robert Heinlein novel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podkayne_of_Mars
I quite enjoyed it at the time, and I think Lowe is about as old as me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podkayne_of_Mars
I quite enjoyed it at the time, and I think Lowe is about as old as me...
Podkayne of Mars is often taken to be one of Heinlein's juvenile novels (based on the story) but that was not his intent, and he said the "moral" was aimed at adults.