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| Cover art by Bob Eggleton |
| MISSION TO MINERVA James P. Hogan |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| New York: Baen Books, 2005 | ISBN 0-7434-9902-6 | 408pp | HC/GSI | $26.00 | |
| Page 35: | "People don't like seeing being afraid to express an opinion and seeing their neighbors dragged way to prison camps." |
| Extra word: S/B "being". |
| Page 48: | "The singularity deformed to become aperture through the center..." |
| Missing word: S/B "become an aperture". |
| Page 51: | "...Thuriens were being conveyed unconcernedly this way and that on by currents of force similar to that which had brought the new arrivals across from the shuttle..." |
| Typo: S/B "and that one by". |
| Page 57: | "At first, it had seemed to many people that this had to be the key to explaining how the Jevlenese ships had been hurled back to ancient Minerva, and more recently, following the media furor over the revelation at Owen's UNSA retirement dinner, the projection of the relay into this universe from whichever other one it had come from." |
| This seems to be a contradiction. When the Jevlenese ships were first mentioned, I got the impression that they had transited time within this universe, not shifted between universes. |
| Page 61: | "One of Sonnebrandt's shoes had a scuff mark near the toe, Hunt had noticed earlier. It we there, faithfully reproduced on his virtual shoe." |
| Typo: S/B "It was there". |
| Page 68: | "No arrangement had been made for the Terrans to see the Thurien Mutliverse work until the next morning." |
| Transposed letters: S/B "Multiverse". |
| Page 104: | "They were bookshelves because Mildred had insisted that a writer's office had to have books in." |
| Missing word: S/B "books in it". |
| Page 120: | "Hunt frowned. Chis? No." |
| Typo: S/B "Chris?". |
| Page 125: | "...or maybe some side effect of Thurien neuro-coupling technolgy." |
| Typo: S/B "technology". |
| Page 137: | "...and included a pool held by natural rock forms, warmed to producing a hint of vapors at its surface and fed by a cascading waterfall." |
| Usage: S/B "to produce". |
| Page 172: | "Thurien education system was another item on Mildred's long list to investigate." |
| Missing word: S/B "The Thurien education system". |
| Page 174: | "But what is there about it, exactly, do you lock on to?" |
| Word choice: S/B "that you lock on to?". |
| Page 203: | "...long before it cold grow into anything coordinated and effective on an global scale." |
| Typo: S/B "could" and "on a global". |
| Page 211: | "...and introducing a measure of 'affinity' that could be derived from a virtually an unlimited number of dimensions..." |
| Extra word: S/B "a virtually". |
| Page 223: | "I've heard from the other scientists that It's been affecting all of them." |
| Typo: S/B "it's". |
| Page 227: | "Our very concept of civilization lies the principle of caring..." |
| Missing word: S/B "lies on the principle". |
| Page 240: | "Kings, presidents, all other the kinds of leaders..." |
| Transposed words: S/B "all the other kinds". |
| Page 244: | "Without Thurien methods and the computational resources of VISAR to back them up things, things would never have gotten even close to progressing this far." |
| Extra word: S/B "back them up, things". |
| Page 246: | "VISAR had been trying to refine the concept of 'affinity,' which yielded rough measure of how far a different reality was from the familiar one..." |
| Missing word: S/B "a rough measure". |
| Page 255: | "The Shapieron was the only ship of its kind in existence..." |
| Why not build another? |
| Page 273: | "The screens showing he link from Thurien cut out." |
| Typo: S/B "the link". |
| Page 286: | "Wylott nodded to him, accepted a microphone, and went into a brief dialogue"." |
| Typo: S/B "dialogue". (No quotation mark.) |
| Page 288: | "The early years of strain between the Lambians Cerians, before the onset of..." |
| Missing word: S/B "Lambians and Cerians". |
| Page 301: | The Jevlenese have arrived, but there's no sign of their ships." |
| Where would you hide ships from a pre-spaceflight planet with a large moon? |
| Page 307: | "About a thousand miles from the away from the first." |
| Extra words: S/B "away from the first". |
| Page 335: | "...the aircraft flying from Melthis with President Marzin and King Perasmon aboard." |
| Spelling: S/B "Harzin". |
| Page 346: | "His eyes were also lighter than any she had seen, and were, quick, missing nothing." |
| Extra comma: S/B "and were quick,". |
| Page 351: | "The view was being captured by one of the Broghuilio's ships on the Farside surface." |
| Extra word: S/B "one of Broghuilio's ships". |
| Page 375: | "Hunt broke in to tell Showm that the flight had been diverted and two leaders were fine." |
| Missing word: S/B "and the two leaders". |
| Page 377: | "Lieutenant Boros to report to the OC's office..." |
| Spelling: S/B "Borosos". Klesimun Borosos. |
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