HEDRICK@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (10/19/85)
From: Peter G. Trei <OC.TREI@CU20B.ARPA>
In reference to typos....
Last week I posted a rather sanctimonious notice concerning
typos on the cover of the Bluejay edition of L. Sprague deCamps'
novel Rogue Queen, where both the title and the authors name
contained were mis-spelled. There have been a couple of replies
giving other grevious errors, including spelling Asimov's first
name 'Issac'.
I gulped when I saw this. Not distributed yet, but in the
pipeline, is my review of Isaac Asimov's ROBOTS AND EMPIRE.
Throughout, I refer to 'Issac Asimov'. Yuck.
Actually, I think the gods have already had their revenge.
Today someone replaced all the labels on the internal (physical)
mailboxes where I work, and of course, I found a large, red TREY
on mine.
Peter TREI
-------Pavel.pa@Xerox.ARPA (10/22/85)
From: Pavel.pa@Xerox.ARPA I noticed recently an impressive typo on the back cover of \Tactics of Mistake/, a novel in the Childe Cycle by Gordon Dickson. The back cover talks all about this guy Donal Graeme and how he has this new style of soldier in mind and how he's going to change the known universe with it. It mentions Donal Graeme as the protagonist several times. There's just one problem with all this: Donal Graeme is the hero of the book \Dorsai!/, which takes place 200 years later! Cletus Grahame is the central character of \Tactics of Mistake/; he's Donal's great-grandfather... Pavel
mooremj@eglin-vax (10/28/85)
From: "MARTIN J. MOORE" <mooremj@eglin-vax> A postcript to the typo discussion -- while bookshopping this weekend I picked up the new Heinlein. An errata sheet fell out. Really! ------