Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!dual!ames!barry From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: A real lulu of a typo... Message-ID: <1179@ames.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 18:08:24 EDT Article-I.D.: ames.1179 Posted: Fri Oct 4 18:08:24 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Oct-85 04:49:52 EDT References: <3678@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <1204@mtgzz.UUCP> Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 17 > From: Peter G. Trei > ... > Can anyone think of another cover typo so careless? This is > definitely the worst I have ever seen. Not on the cover, but at least as significant: the SF Book Club edition of THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE has a typo changing the sentence, "the children should have been spaced" (ie, out the airlock), to "the children should have been spared", thus reversing the meaning 180 degrees. When I got my copy signed, Niven also corrected the typo. What worse for an author, than to have a typo actually alter the meaning of his story? - From the Crow's Nest - Kenn Barry NASA-Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTRIC AVENUE: {ihnp4,vortex,dual,nsc,hao,hplabs}!ames!barry