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| Cover art uncredited |
| FIRST CYCLE H. Beam Piper Michael Kurland New York: Ace Books, January 1982 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-441-23919-1 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-441-23919-6 | 201pp. | SC | $2.25 | |
| Page 9: | "When cornered, they were vicious fighters, with nails and teeth but to escape the larger carnivora they relied chiefly upon agility..." |
| Misplaced comma: S/B "they were vicious fighters with nails and teeth, but". (Also, I could quibble about the use of "carnivora" and "herbivores" vs. "carnivora" and "herbivora.") |
| Page 29: | "...only Elektra gave heat as well as light; it brought the storms and bloods, providing fresh silt to renew the land for planting." |
| Typo: S/B "floods". |
| Page 38: | "...such a one would invariably be found, in a short time, laying in some field with an arrow in his back." |
| Usage: S/B "lying". |
| Page 59: | "There was but one god, Vran. Vran, and only Vran, had real existance, and all else existed only in the mind of Vran..." |
| Spelling: S/B "existence". |
| Page 63: | "The rendezvous grew, some of them arranging with wanderers to visit at periodic intervals especially to teach." |
| Missing comma: S/B "intervals, especially". |
| Page 117: | "The unorthodox form of address, however, warned him to move cautiously; a warning that was echoed and inforced by every item of his surroundings." |
| Spelling: S/B "enforced". |
| Page 122: | "It was said that if all the slivers were put together, they would form a bench ten leagues long, two leagues wide, and half a league high." |
| Terminology: I thought the unit of distance was the standard lance. |
| Page 122: | "The hypnotic of religion could not be phased out, and slowly replaced with a completely secular form of Organicism." |
| Typo: S/B "could now be". |
| Page 123: | "Raz-Razkov's title and position was taken by Tov-Varsor..." |
| Number error: S/B "were". |
| Page 158: | "Scientists working on the problem for him had hypothesized that the reason why the earlier ship had not landed was that it could not have carried enough fuel to lift itself out of the gravity well and crossed space to its home planet again." |
| Verb tense: S/B "cross". |
| Page 185: | "They laugh at us," Morv-Grov put in, angrily." |
| Spelling: S/B "Morv-Gorov" — if it matches the pattern of Thallasan names. |
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