Saturday, April 12, 2008

Stranger in a Strange Land

AUTHOR: Robert A. Heinlein
PUBLISHER: Ace
YEAR: 1987
EDITION: 10th printing, third edition paperback
ISBN: 0-441-79034-8
p. 113: Sentence missing a quotation mark at the beginning.
I am glad," Smith answered soberly.
p. 126: Sentence has unnecessary quotation mark at the beginning.
"Duke grudged a grin. "I wouldn't take a chance on my ex-mother-in-law."
p. 309: Lowercase l should be an uppercase L at start of sentence.
let's get out of this dreary fog.
p. 337: There's an unnecessary comma.
The Nest is built to hold eighty-one--'three-filled,'--but Michael groks much waiting before we need a bigger nest ...
p. 395: A new paragraph is missing an indent.
"I grok you speak rightly, Jubal," Jill said slowly ...
p. 406: A brith should be birth.
"Take the holy brith scene here--the rear wall is beginning to look curved ... "
p. 427: A character name should be capitalized.
"This is NWNW New World Networks' mobile newshound on the spot while it's hot--your newscaster, happy Holliday. ..."
p. 427: An open quote is missing.
"What do you think of the girls here on Earth?" ... Gee!"