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| Cover art by Vincent DiFate (per the HC) |
| MACROSCOPE Piers Anthony New York: Avon Books, October 1969 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-72211177-2 | ||||
| ISBN 0-72211177-0 | 480pp. | SC | $1.25 | |
| Page 157: | "No," Afra returned bluntly. "I am afraid of that thing. It—had me when it—got Brad. I can't fight it because it appeals to my intelligence." |
| No. Afra was not in the room when Brad and the Senator faced the destroyer signal. This is a continuity error. |
| Page 334: | "'It's like trying to cram four glasses of liquor into a fifth,' Afra explained to Beatryx. A quart won't fit into a fifth, so—'" |
| The highlighted statement is correct: A quart is a fourth of a gallon, and a fourth of a gallon is more that a fifth of a gallon. However, the description of four glasses as a quart of liquor is incorrect. A fifth of liquor holds far more than four servings (assuming the use of highball glasses, the type normally used to serve liquor, and typical serving sizes.) |
| Page 345: | "Drone ship, on my honor. It only weighs a tenth as much as Joseph, and that galactic formula would asphyxiate our type of life as soon as it ignited..." |
| Why would the exhaust from the potent propellants be able to enter their life-support system? This is illogical. |
| Page 373: | "The few civilians passing him on the street saluted with alacrity; he ignored thm." |
| Missing letter: S/B "them". |
| Page 378: | "Some sections were still expanding, while others were already contracting, and special stresses acted even on the interiors of galaxies and stellar systems that appeared to the fleeting animate observer to maintain their original sizes and positions." |
| Wrong word: S/B "spatial". |
| Pages 469-470: | "'Do you remember Yvonne?' she asked him. * * * For there had been a third genius of the project, one falling between Brad and Schön. Yvonne—'The Archer'—and there had been intense conflict. * * * For a day and a night they had faced each other, locked in a private room, and in the end Schön had won and Yvo had committed suicide." |
| Obviously "Yvonne" was shortened and masculinized to form "Ivo" when the (far-fetched) substitution took place. But there is no need to shorten it here. |
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