On 26 Jul 2005, at 11:18 am, William T Goodall wrote:
On 17 Jul 2005, at 3:45 am, Max Battcher wrote:
Julia Thompson wrote:
THERE IS A MISTAKE ON PAGE 10!
At least in the US edition.
Was Gautam reading too fast to catch it? :)
Julia
who is on page 10
The sight/site switch? Jumps off the page, doesn't it? Although
I'm of the opinion that book editors are getting sloppier and
sloppier lately. If I had cataloged all of the recent mistakes
that had jumped out at me from "big name" books I think I might
have a very long list. I wish I got paid every time I discovered
an editing mistake.
I think it was Harlan Ellison who wrote a big rant about 25 years
ago about the declining standards of copy editing :) Now I'm just
used to seeing 'baited breath' and such in every book. The other
problem is spelling checkers and search and replace garbling text.
I just read the story 'Marcher' by Chris Beckett in Dozois'
nineteenth annual best sf and the main character is called Huw (a
Welsh name).
"Huw did you get on?" is supposed to be "How did you get on?" I
suspect. Just about every story in the book has some kind of
mistake in it.
Twentieth Year's Best, first story
"There were storms, and white crackles of lightening, "...
I suppose if I were really generous I might let that pass as a
deliberate archaism. But I'm not :) And there aren't other archaisms
in the text to suggest it might have been meant. And that wasn't the
first problem with the first story, I just couldn't be bothered
looking back after I got annoyed by this one.
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