| DOUBLE MOBIUS SPHERE P. S. Nim New York: Pocket Books, December 1978 |
Rating: 4.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-671-81131-0 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-671-81131-2 | 263pp. | SC | $1.75 | |
| Page 18: | "Oberon enjoyed the vagueries of ideas; the Dragon preferred the crispness of facts and details." |
| Vocabulary: S/B "vagaries" or "vagueness." |
| Page 41: | "Elijah took a sidetrip that was not picked up by the taping..." |
| Missing space: S/B "side trip". |
| Page 160: | "For all time, that had been the far distant object." |
| Missing hyphen: S/B "far-distant." |
| Page 163: | "He felt it was best not to seem to well informed." |
| Pesky homonyms: S/B "to seem too well informed". |
| Page 215: | "They passed a cluster of decoy patrol ships, staked out for the purpose of wasting the enemy's torpedo rays." |
| An interesting concept, to be sure. Are they rays which can somehow home in on a target by themselves? |
| Page 219: | "Deepening purples of evening lengthened before them, slicing through the reflected light of three moons." |
| This could be an inversion for effect, like "The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd." It nevertheless seems jarring and unnecessary. |
| Page 219: | "A rigid cold hung in the air." |
| Vocabulary: S/B "frigid cold." What would it be if rigid — unchanging in temperature? Unyielding? |
| Page 245: | "Mathematics was preferred, and his he had amassed over the months in sufficient quantity." |
| Missing letter: S/B "this he had amassed". |
| Page 249: | "There is was. A tiny detail in a master plan..." |
| Typo: S/B "There it was." |
| Page 259: | "The double mobius sphere does appear to meet more of the requirements of a plausible space warp model than do either of the two models offered by astronomers today." |
| Number error: S/B "than does either". |
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