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| Cover art by Darryl K. Sweet |
| CACHALOT Alan Dean Foster New York: Ballantine, May 1980 | Rating: 4.5 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-345-28066-4 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-345-28066-0 | 275pp. | SC | $2.25 | |
| Page 145: | "Several small domes protruded from its upper sides and roof, along with a broad dish antenna. An impressive array of electronic webwork connected antennaes and domes and other projections, spun of titanium and magnesoy and glass instead of silk." |
| Spelling: S/B "antennas" or "antennae". |
| Page 154: | "Peering through the tentacled brilliance, she saw the yellow figure of Rachael surrounded by an attentive court of dazzling luminaries, a flavescent nucleus orbited by blue and crimson electrons." |
| Though previously unknown to me, this word means "yellowish or turning yellow." |
| Page 214: | "The helmsman's fingers tightened around Scanning screens on the suprafoil showed the tiny dots the controls." |
| The highlighted portion is a wayward sentence fragment. It belongs on page 216, in the third paragraph which, as printed, reads: "Up went the great flukes, like some huge gray bird. Down went the head as the whale arched his back. of the orcas sprinting out of the way as the multiton bull plunged rapidly and unhesitatingly for the silence of the depths." I've added a line break to show where the fragment belongs. |
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