OCTOBER THE FIRST IS TOO LATE

October the First Is Too Late, by Fred Hoyle

OCTOBER THE FIRST IS TOO LATE Fred Hoyle New York: Harper & Row, April 1966				Rating: 3.0 Fair
ISBN-13 978-1-58715-645-8
ISBN-10 1-58715-645-8	190pp.	HC	$?

Page 110:	The days slipped placidly away. Beyond Gibraltar now, we steamed steadily east toward the isles of Greece. We would sit on deck until far into the night. The sea was calm. Surrounded by the darkened waters,2 stars filling the sky, anything seemed possible. Jason and the Argonaut might have glided by.
	There are two ways to fix this: "Jason and the Argo" or "Jason and the Argonauts". It's surprising that a student of classical Greece, even as an amateur, does not know the myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece better.

1 I noticed a few other errors. I didn't record them because they're trivial and might be due to the editor of this Book Club edition.

2 I'm surprised the author doesn't use Homer's term "the wine-dark sea" here.