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| Author: | JusTin [ Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:48 pm ] |
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Use this thread to post any "finds". This post opened up as a service to Dr. Robert James, whom Tor has asked to collect the errors and omissions for Volume 2. |
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| Author: | MichaelCassutt [ Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:58 pm ] |
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Just a general note, the Index is unreliable in the extreme. I'm mentioned a couple of times in the text and at least three times in the notes.... zero listings in the Index. No Fredric Brown, either. And those are just the first that caught my eye. Michael Cassutt |
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| Author: | beamjockey [ Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:30 am ] |
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p. 173: profit without honor I think this is a joke rather than a spelling error. On the day of the Apollo 11 launch in 1969: p. 306: They were ferried like royalty to a motel in Coco Beach. Cocoa Beach. p. 306: where they talked with Hank and Barbie Stine and with Arthur C. Clarke and his wife, Connie. Clarke's brief marriage to Marilyn Mayfield in 1953 ended in separation, the divorce being finalized in 1964. Who's Connie? p. 495: Éric H. Picholle's name is misspelled as "Picolle." Also on this page, Bill Patterson has fallen afoul of an understandable source of confusion. Éric H. Picholle has CO-AUTHORED a book entitled Solutions Non Satisfaisante with Ugo Bellagamba. (Not "Hugo.") It's a critical look at Heinlein's fiction. Its subtitle is Une Anatomie de Robert A. Heinlein. It was published in 2008. Éric H. Picholle has EDITED a book entitled Solution Non Satisfaisante. Its subtitle is Heinlein et L'Arme Atomique. It contains the story "Solution Unsatisfactory" along with essays about Heinlein's work by Éric himself and others. It was published in 2009, or anyway, its copyright date is given as 2009. In his love for the title "Solution Non Satisfaisante," Éric has created a minefield for those attempting to follow his bibliographic trail. So. On page 495 Patterson writes: prepared for Solution Non Satisfaisante: Heinlein et l'Arme Atomique, Éric H. Picolle (who translated it into French) and Hugo Bellagamba. Paris: Editions du Somnium, 2010. I suggest the following correction: prepared for Solution Non Satisfaisante: Heinlein et l'Arme Atomique, edited by Éric H. Picholle (who translated it into French). Paris: Editions du Somnium, 2009. --modulo the appropriate capitalization for the titles, or abbreviation for "edited by." |
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| Author: | holmesiv [ Sat Jun 14, 2014 1:51 pm ] |
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Page 297, Patterson identifies the nominee of the 1968 Democratic National Convention as Eugene McCarthy. It was Hubert Humphrey. |
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| Author: | beamjockey [ Sat Jun 14, 2014 7:03 pm ] |
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I placed a pad of tiny Post-It notes inside my copy, to mark any errors I find as I read. |
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| Author: | BillMullins [ Thu Jun 19, 2014 4:17 pm ] |
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| Author: | BillMullins [ Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:53 pm ] |
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This one's pretty minor. In the captions to the photographs, reference is made to "astronaut" Phil Chapman. Strictly speaking, it would be better to refer to him as having been a member of the astronaut corps. Generally, one isn't an astronaut until actually going into space, and Chapman resigned before making it up there. Current NASA webpages refer to people who have been selected, but haven't yet flown, as astronaut candidates. But they also refer to Chapman as "former astronaut". So this may be a matter of style, rather than a hard-and-fast error. |
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| Author: | BillMullins [ Fri Jun 20, 2014 7:30 am ] |
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The book makes references a couple of places to the 1962 Worldcon in Chicago as Chicon II, and refers to programming transcription that was put together by Earl Kemp as The Proceedings of Chicon II (see Note 7 on p 533). While you can find it both ways, I think the convention is more commonly called Chicon III. The book by Kemp is more properly titled The Proceedings: Chicon III. |
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| Author: | BillMullins [ Fri Jun 20, 2014 12:32 pm ] |
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P. 497 note 12: Rantz Hoseley's name is misspelled as "Hosely". |
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| Author: | BillMullins [ Sun Jun 22, 2014 7:08 am ] |
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| Author: | MichaelCassutt [ Sun Jun 22, 2014 7:20 am ] |
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| Author: | DanHenderson [ Mon Jun 23, 2014 8:34 am ] |
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Apropos of nothing even remotely relevant to Bill's book, Gus Grissom's son Scott was one of my flight instructors. When I met him for the first time, I asked if he was related to the Mercury astronaut, and he said he was his son. I was appropriately impressed and asked what his dad was doing now? Um, he died in the Apollo 1 fire. I was never so embarrassed in my entire life. In the course of our work together, he taught me something he said Neil Armstrong had taught him. If you have an engine failure and are forced to land on a road, but you're uncertain whether you can fly over or will have to land under an overpass, head directly for the overpass and watch your airspeed gauge. If your airspeed is high enough, go over the overpass; if it isn't, land under it. Pretty cool. Fortunately, I've never had to use the advice. I stayed in touch with Scott after I finished my license. He got accepted for training as a United Airlines First Officer and went to Denver to attend their flight academy. After he graduated, he moved back to his Houston apartment. United sent him a telegram telling him where and when to show up for his first work assignment, but they sent it to his Denver address and he never got it. They summarily fired him for failing to show up for his first flight. He became a FedEx pilot and, last I heard, was happy there. |
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| Author: | beamjockey [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:48 pm ] |
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| Author: | beamjockey [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 2:04 pm ] |
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| Author: | BillMullins [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 7:16 pm ] |
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| Author: | BillMullins [ Tue Jun 24, 2014 7:46 pm ] |
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| Author: | antonio4231 [ Wed Jun 25, 2014 5:39 pm ] |
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In the Photo section, I'm pretty sure that is a mule deer being drug by Lurton Blassingame, not an elk. In the Notes section, Page 587, section 22 note 2 reads "The cuts were not allowed in the dunder-free quest house." I'm pretty sure that this should read, " The cats were not allowed in the dander-free guest house. " |
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| Author: | MichaelCassutt [ Thu Jun 26, 2014 6:59 am ] |
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| Author: | beamjockey [ Fri Jul 11, 2014 11:03 am ] |
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| Author: | beamjockey [ Mon Jul 14, 2014 9:56 am ] |
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Correction: the RAND sentence appears on page 228, not 229. Sorry. (I was misled by the discrepancy between the paper book and the Google Books version.) |
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| Author: | beamjockey [ Mon Jul 14, 2014 10:02 am ] |
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| Author: | beamjockey [ Mon Jul 14, 2014 10:06 am ] |
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| Author: | beamjockey [ Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:20 am ] |
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| Author: | beamjockey [ Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:31 am ] |
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| Author: | beamjockey [ Sun Jul 27, 2014 7:26 pm ] |
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| Author: | catsitter [ Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:45 am ] |
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| Author: | PeterScott [ Fri Sep 08, 2017 6:03 pm ] |
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There seems to be - why am I not surprised? - little information and much of it contradictory. While everyone agrees that Heinlein had a rare blood type, few specify what it was. The rarest blood type, at 1% of the Caucasian population, is AB negative. But that is not universal recipient; it can only receive from Rhesus negative types. AB+ is the universal recipient - for red blood cells. To complicate matters, the situation is , where AB is the universal donor. A negative type is still a tough hand to be dealt because negative types are rarer than positive types, but several types are harder to donate to than AB-. Back to Heinlein's type. Some pages say he was AB+ (e.g. https://www.comic-con.org/toucan/10-rob ... ercon-2016); some say AB- (e.g. http://www.fanac.org/Denvention3/blooddrive.html). says it was "A2 negative"; the 2 does not appear to be a factor in compatibility. agrees. I am tempted to go with AB- because that was Eunice's type in IWFNE, but that may have been exercising authorial license; when I was young there was some buzz around having an AB- type. So what is the worst type to be for donations? Answer: O negative, which can only receive from O negative, which is 7% of the population. But it is the universal donor. So the type that would have made the most sense for Heinlein to be activist about would be O-, but it seems certain that whatever he was, it wasn't that. |
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