THE CHRONOCIDE MISSION

Reviewed 5/14/2010

The Chronocide Mission, by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

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THE CHRONOCIDE MISSION Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, April 2002				Rating: 5.0 High
ISBN-13 978-1-58715-645-8
ISBN-10 1-58715-645-8	307pp.	HC	$29.95

Errata

I'm not sure that all of these are mistakes. With Biggle so old when this book was published, I should probably cut him some slack. Still, there are cases when the misspellings occur in parts of the tale set in present day, and these should follow standard English. In other cases, as with "course", it's elsewhere spelled correctly as "coarse." And of course the missing or doubled words are obvious mistakes. As I note in my review, these look like they should be laid on Biggle's editor.

Page 8:	"The Lantiff's course shouts became frenzied..."
	S/B "coarse".

Page 63:	"...if they became aware of the existence of such an elete force, they might suspect a raid."
	I think this spelling is intended.

Page 66:	"Sheer happenstance had given the the Ten Peerdoms' critical mountain border to the peer most capable of defending it."
	S/B "the".

Page 81:	"The two of them [...] only knew that humanity was in desperate straights..."
	S/B "straits". I doubt the word would get harder to spell.

Page 85:	"Only peerager females had the perogative of long hair, and they guarded it jealously..."
	May be intentional.

Page 100:	"...and petting a large dog that lay at this side."
	S/B "his side".

Page 113:	"Arne handled problem of Egarn with the same tireless efficiency."
	S/B "handled the problem".

Page 114:	"...apart from Arne, no more than three residents of Midd Villager knew the secret workroom existed."
	S/B "Midd Village".

Page 124:	"I fear the prince has inflicted wounds on herself that are beyond heeling."
	S/B "healing". I think it's an error.

Page 136:	"There were several conspiracies underway to get him wived..."
	S/B "coarse".

Page 162:	"Because he was resposible only to Wiltzon..."
	S/B "responsible".

Page 164:	"He told Egarn she was becomming an excellent assistant."
	S/B "becoming".

Page 178:	"The off-duty members of Egarn's team gathered in is workroom."
	S/B "in his".

Page 186:	"They fell in love with Mount Hope Cemetary ..."
	S/B "Cemetery".

Page 191:	"Burglars for whom no lock or alarm system was a deterent broke in..."
	S/B "deterrent". We're back in Rochester, NY now.

Page 191:	"...that they could literally do it under the noses of the police without arousing a wiff of suspicion."
	S/B "whiff". We're back in Rochester, NY now.

Page 193:	"ARNEAND DELINE"
	Missing space in title: S/B "ARNE AND".

Page 193:	"But fate of Midlow Court affected Deline hardly at all."
	Missing word: S/B "But the fate of".

Page 196:	"They waivered; Deline's guard charged with renewed fury..."
	S/B "wavered".

Page 227:	"From its founding in the 1838, Mount Hope Cemetery was..."
	Extra word: S/B "in 1838".

Page 228:	"Tall pillars and obelesques caught the eye and symbollically pointed the way to heaven."
	Spelling: S/B "obelisks" and "symbolically". Rochester again.

Page 240:	"The way back is always seems further than the way out."
	S/B "way back in".

Page 264:	"...Arne had seen enough, and he knew would never have the slightest desire to look again."
	Missing word: S/B "knew he would".

Pages 264-5:	"At least we have arrived safely, and we are ready to to work."
	Doubled word: S/B "to" or "to go to".

Page 276:	"...but Brock sensed his worry that he had sent his emmissaries too far back in time."
	Spelling: S/B "emissaries".

Page 291:	"He doesn't look well, either. He must be rather be rather old."
	Doubled words: S/B "be rather".

Page 297:	"They are to hold back zon the heroics until all of us figure out what is going on."
	Typo: S/B "on".