| AFTERMATH Levar Burton New York: Warner Books, 1997 |
Rating: 4.5 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-446-51993-9 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-446-51993-6 | 274p. | HC | $22.00 | |
| Page 7: | "Leon had grown up in the town of Millvat, Pennsylvania, just across the Ohio River from the city of Pittsburgh." |
| There is no town named "Millvat" in Pennsylvania. However, there is a "Millvale", and it is just where he places it. This looks like a transcription error or an editor's typo. |
| Page 8: | "Although Leon's work at C4 figuratively put his head in the clouds, his dreams went way beyond that, out past the stratosphere and monosphere, to the great vastness of space." |
| As far as I know there is no part of the atmosphere called the "monosphere." Perhaps magnetosphere is what was intended. Google is no help; it only shows me a Redwood City storage-management software firm. |
| Page 14: | "Fortunately, the city of Atlanta considered the Hawkins Neural Institute important enough to give them extra kilowatt hours." |
| Missing hyphen: S/B "kilowatt-hours". |
| Page 14: | "What they received from the city went to operate scientific apparatuses and medical equipment." |
| "Apparatus" is either singular or plural, depending on context. "Apparatuses" is also valid, but I've seldom seen it used. |
| Page 261: | "The second guard lowered his aim and fired again. The shotgun's deadly pellets clipped one of the table's legs and struck the floor about a foot in front of Leon." |
| I would have added a third sentence: "Fortunately, they veered off to one side." Something to indicate more clearly how lucky was his escape.2 |
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