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| Cover art by Darryl K. Sweet |
| THE TAR-AIYM KRANG Alan Dean Foster New York: Del Rey Books, July 1988 | Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-345-30280-9 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-345-30280-X | 251pp. | SC | $3.50 | |
| Page 1: | "It was to his great credit that he managed to remian on the accepted side of current temporal morality as much as he had so far." |
| Spelling: S/B "remain". |
| Page 6: | "When one refered to 'grain' on Moth, it had nothing to do with flour." |
| Spelling: S/B "referred". |
| Page 29: | "The Alaspinian minidrags, however, have no fangs. Only small cutting teeth for biting." |
| The second is a phrase, not a sentence: S/B "fangs, only". |
| Page 34: | "The giant poured himself a tiny yttrium cognac." |
| And he worries about Flinx paying for the Burberry spice beer? |
| Page 40: | "Thoughts and palm-readings." |
| Punctuation: S/B "Thought- and palm-readings." |
| Page 42: | "Damn that beer!" |
| Continuity: Are we supposed to believe that last evening's beer still affects young Flinx the next morning? |
| Page 52: | "...so it would do you little good and much expence to try to find it on your own." |
| Word choice: S/B "bring". |
| Page 73: | "Her head dropped onto her right hand while the left made nervous clicking sounds on the pure corrundum table." |
| Spelling: S/B "corundum". (Or a completely new word might have been dreamed up: covfevium, perhaps.) |
| Page 80: | " “But you are here and you are witness, Jaor,” began the governor for the seventeenth time,” and. . . .”" |
| Punctuation: S/B "time, “and. . . .” ". |
| Page 89: | "A wholly thranx innovation, however, had been the adaptation of the gravity drive as a weapon of irresistable power." |
| Spelling: S/B "irresistible". |
| Page 97: | "She would . . . for four months' rent, in advance if you please. He paid it rather than stand and argue. It took a large slice out of the hundred credits he'd made so recently but..." |
| Continuity: Since on the previous page Flinx had paid "nine-six point twenty credits" for a duffel bag, this seems incongruous. |
| Page 99: | "Besides being expensive, the nomad populace tended to cut them up for the metal." |
| Dangling participle: S/B "they tended to get cut up by the nomad populace for metal". |
| Page 99: | "...he paid the driver, debarked, and hurried off into the geat tubular buildings..." |
| Spelling: S/B "great". |
| Page 118: | "Her niece's generosity and concern, was . . . well, appalling." |
| Number error: S/B "were". |
| Page 158: | "Why yes, there is one, Captain. At our present rate of travel, some seventy-two ship-minutes from our current attitude . . . well, appalling." |
| Terminology: S/B "attitude". |
| Page 171: | "...UV radicount (est. surf./sq.mi./ki.)..." |
| Terminology: this unit of measure makes no sense. |
| Page 178: | "There was also a wonderfully compact minimicrofilm reader, with some fifty books on its spool." |
| Forgivable anachronism: we can forgive ADF not anticipating the microcomputer revolution. |
| Page 181: | "Positively sylvan." |
| Vocabulary: This word doesn't mean "calm" or "clement" as the context would indicate. |
| Page 186: | "Gravel, dirt, and bits of wood from the hearty ground-hugging plants began to splatter against the front of the dome." |
| Vocabulary: S/B "hardy". |
| Page 196: | "Tse-Mallory and Truzenzuzex had been pouring over the immense apparatus..." |
| Vocabulary: S/B "poring". |
| Page 219: | "The addition of two new, free faces (and bodies, oh yes!)..." |
| Vocabulary: S/B "fresh". |
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