Cover art by Ron Miller |
EON Greg Bear New York: TOR, October 1991 (7th printing) |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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ISBN-13: 978-0-812-53174-9 | ||||
ISBN-10: 0-812-53174-4 | 504pp. | SC | $3.95 |
Page 228: | "The library still addressed him in clear twentieth-first century English." |
Extra word: S/B "twentieth-century". |
Page 256: | "Each of the visible faces of the cubes were marked with a broad horizontal cleft..." |
Number error: S/B "was marked". |
Page 271: | "...we'll get out work done faster." |
Spelling: S/B "our work". |
Page 274: | "The ostensive reason was Mirsky's lack of dedication..." |
As used here, "ostensive" is a less common equivalent to "ostensible." It can also mean "to explain by demonstrating or esp. by pointing, so I would prefer "ostensible" here. |
Page 275: | "...to complete the task Lenin had begun eighty-years before." |
Missing word: probably S/B "eighty-eight years". |
Page 298: | "The've come looking for me..." |
Spelling: S/B "They've". |
Page 332: | "...seven of the walls were covered by rootwood cases containing antigue books and message blocks..." |
Spelling: S/B "antique books". |
Page 344: | "You're going to testify before the full Nexus in a couple of days [...] They you're going to be included in the Last Gate ceremony." |
Spelling: S/B "Then you're". |
Page 348: | "He walked back and forty, noticing a distinctly unpleasant sensation..." |
Typo: S/B "back and forth". |
Pages 357-8: | "It'll take us years to sophisticated here..." |
Missing word: S/B "to get sophisticated". |
Page 365: | "He came to find you—out a sense of duty." |
Missing word: S/B "out of a". |
Page 405: | "But if I think any more, I'm going to loose all of it. Snap." |
Spelling: S/B "lose". |
Page 467: | "In each hand, he held a small black sperical monitor." |
Spelling: S/B "spherical". |