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Commented on Typo hunt: Neptune's Brood
I sent these to you by email, but just so you don't have to dig them out: (Ace Hardback, pg 269) At 1% of c it takes more than 2 minutes to get from Earth to the Moon. (You may...
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Typo hunt: Neptune's Brood
If I report a typo through the "Report Content Error" button on Amazon Kindle, does that ever make it back to you?...
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Charlie Stross commented on
Typo hunt: Neptune's Brood
Nope, reports to the Kindle never go anywhere near the author or publisher. Ditto other ebook stores (e.g. Kobo et al). If you spot a typo you need to send it to me, and me alone. Moreover, if you spot a typo after the book is released in paperback, you are too late. The only opportunity for corrections occurs when a book is typeset or reflowed for a new print format on a different size of paper. This happens when a book is issued in a new format -- e.g. going from hardcover to mass market paperback -- or if...
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reppep commented on
Typo hunt: Neptune's Brood
These are from the Apple iBooks edition. Beacon Departure Despite looking outwardly human and imprinted with a set of human memories, Despite looking outwardly human and being imprinted with a set of human memories, Through the rest of the book, she normally uses 'human' to refer to her mechanical successors, and mostly uses 'Fragile' for homo sapiens. I don't see why she would use 'human' for homo sapiens here. The Church of the Fragile I was one of a round hex of newly forked children But 'hex' actually means 6, and she's one of sixteen. The stalker followed Krina to...
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