This isn't even a new problem. Larry Niven has described attending the public announcement of a new physics Shiny Thing, rushing home to pound out a story using it before any other SF author could do so - and having the technical physics part out of date before the story was published.
]]>Great story - I hope you'll put out more "chibi Laundry" stories in future, Laundry is always welcome :)
]]>That said, stonkingly good read. 5/5.
[1] No, I'm not stupid enough to buy a Surface. My brother used to work for the Beast of Redmond.
]]>Not a US thing, that I've seen. Underlining where text is to be printed in italics is standard manuscript formatting, it's easier to spot underlining while scanning the text. It seems more like a failure to convert the manuscript.
]]>Anyway, it's something that should have been converted to italics before the ebook was generated and distributed. Tor are aware of it as a bug and will be fixing it in due course. (But as noted elsewhere, this is not a push-button job: someone in editorial has to generate a change request to whoever typeset the ebook, and they have to update the master file, then someone has to check it, then upload it to half a dozen different ebook stores and check what they're doing with it ...)
]]>It also demonstrates why it's more important than ever to block popup ads when browsing. You've been warned.
]]>Why were medieval knights shown fighting snails? I guess I know now...
]]>Also a few posts back in late September when this article was also mentioned on this blog. It's later than the source of the Smithsonian's article, but contains some more examples.
]]>(On the other hand, at least one Tor editor should also be there, so he might notice this and get something done.)
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