BLOODHYPE

Reviewed 10/02/2011

Cover by Darryl K. Sweet

BLOODHYPE Alan Dean Foster New York: Ballantine Books, January 1973				Rating: 5.0 High
ISBN-13 978-0-345-31021-7
ISBN-10 0-345-31021-7	249pp.	SC	$2.75

Errata

Page 23:	"The Tolian smiled once, gently. 'Odorless. Clear, rhombohedric crystals with a glossy luster.' "
	Spelling: S/B "rhombohedral".

Page 23:	" 'Concoidal fracture, no odor released on pulverizing... yes, I think I know what it is, Major.' "
	Spelling: S/B "Conchoidal".

Page 118:

"Regrettably, the Vom could not read thoughts. It never did have this ability."

This is a minor continuity error. Compare these entries:

"Sated, the Vom rested for a long time. Then, using its always successful ploy of contacting another intelligent race and taking control of the curious vessels that would come to investigate, it broadcast into the space around it. Once carried by unwilling servitors to a new planet, it would begin the cycle of feeding anew." (page 2)

"The Vom could not read minds now, but it was an astute interpreter of emotions and actions." (page 58.)

Page 191:	"That the creature's power and strength grows in minutes and hours, not days."
	Number error: S/B "grow".

Page 191:	"The pilot was completely catatonic. The healer's can't do a thing for him."
	Unwanted apostrophe: S/B "healers". (Perhaps if he eats, shoots and leaves...)

Page 203:	"The Machine assays anywhere from 60 to 40% chance of success."
	Typo: S/B "6% to 40%".

Page 223:	"Moral considerations aside, it was apparent that the Vom was winning."
	Unwanted line break: S/B "the Vom was".

Page 224:	"The Vom was stronger now than it had been even when the Guardian was first activated, millenia ago."
	Spelling: S/B "millennia.

Page 225:	"I know that, lieutenant."
	Capitalization: S/B "Lieutenant".