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| Cover art by Bob Eggleton |
| THE HOWLING STONES A Novel of the Humanx Commonwealth Alan Dean Foster New York: Ballantine Books, 1997 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-345-38375-4 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-345-38375-3 | 330pp. | HC | $22.50 | |
| Page 65: | "Each of the two short arms ended in delicate hands that terminated in the three fingers, the central one being considerably longer than the other two." |
| Extra word: S/B "three fingers". |
| Page 120: | "A nearby bommie consisting entirely of blue pseudocorals attracted schools of swimmers." |
| This is a new word to me. Wiktionary says it's short for the Australian aboriginal word "bombora," meaning an isolated shallow piece of reef lying just offshore. |
| Page 125: | "Like any mature AAann, each of the technicians chosen for the mission were fully conversant with military procedures and equipment." |
| Number error: S/B "was". |
| Page 137: | "Surely the Parramati weren't responsible for them. Then who were?" |
| Arguable number error: S/B "Then who was?" |
| Page 154: | "...it lay like a blaze of energy against the framing azure blue sea." |
| Missing hyphen: S/B "azure-blue sea". (I prefer "azure sea".) |
| Page 163: | "What multiplicity of combinations were possible?" |
| Number error: S/B "was". |
| Page 183: | "The back wall being high and well made, and having heard not a sound from within, he decided to try around front." |
| Dangling participle: S/B "Finding the back wall high and well made". |
| Page 248: | "Two members of the commanders' expedition to Torrelau..." |
| Misplaced apostrophe: S/B "commander's |
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