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| THE NITROGEN FIX Hal Clement Janet Aulisio (Illus.) |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-441-58117-7 | |||||
| New York: Ace Books, Oct. 1981 | ISBN 0-441-58117-X | 289pp | SC | $2.75 | |
| Cover: | The depiction of a man and woman (Earrin and Kahvi) literally hiding behind Bones does not follow the plot. |
| Bones is their friend, and does defend them on several occasions — but never in exactly this way. Also, the Sun appears too large. However, Bones himself or herself is depicted quite accurately. |
| Page 72: | "...the self-replicating chemical growth developed long before the chance in Earth's atmosphere to carry out various tasks or produce desired substances without human attention." |
| Spelling: S/B "change". |
| Page 111: | "Both organization and its reverse where concepts which went with a population of individuals." |
| Spelling: S/B "were". |
| Page 133: | "The city dwellers had their own standards of righteousness, and a few generations of enforcing these by firmly Nomadding offenders..." |
| Spelling: S/B "Nomading" (at least by modern rules.) It refers to the practice of expelling undesirable citizens, thus turning them into Nomads (most of whom don't survive long outside.) |
| Page 138: | "You should get out of the city at once—you can't say you weren't breathing out air." |
| Spelling: S/B "our". On a world with no free oxygen, oxygen-breathers get downright stingy about their supply. |
| Page 138: | "It seemed most probably that it was Bones, but the more Earrin thought, the more he felt that there had been something different about the fleetingly glimpsed figure." |
| Spelling: S/B "probable". |
| Page 266: | " 'Hold on tight,' he said to the others. 'We're going to go very fast.' " |
| Spelling: S/B "she" since it refers to Danna, a girl-child. |
| Pages 272-3: | The four possible enzymes that the organism uses to assimilate nitrogen all depend on gold. |
| Is this true to science? |
| Page 280: | "They could only watch and hope as the meters flowed backward and the scene grew clearer." |
| Usage: S/B "as the meters flowed past". The original makes "meters" sound like measuring instruments. |
| Page 281: | "Kahvi slowly got off the boat and stood hip-deep, still looking for her husbnad." |
| Spelling: S/B "husband". |
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