Sorry. I thought you might be familiar with his works. Yep. Simmons has included the correction in at least two of his series so far. In the Hyperion/Endymion quadrilogy, he has a military Captain/Priest make a verbal correction to a junior-grade officer. In the Olympus series, there's a similar scene. I believe the same correction was in his horror novel The Hollow Man.
He makes corrections entertaining, at least.
Aenea looked down at the dark water of the river. "And then Robinson Crusoe stripped naked, swam out to his ship, filled his pockets with biscuits, and swam back to shore. . . ." "What?" I said, hefting my pack and frowning at the child. "Nothing," she said, getting to her feet. "Just an old pre-Hegira book that Uncle Martin used to read to me. He used to say that proofreaders have always been incompetent assholes -- even fourteen hundred years ago."
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Sorry. I thought you might be familiar with his works. Yep. Simmons has included the correction in at least two of his series so far. In the Hyperion/Endymion quadrilogy, he has a military Captain/Priest make a verbal correction to a junior-grade officer. In the Olympus series, there's a similar scene. I believe the same correction was in his horror novel The Hollow Man.
He makes corrections entertaining, at least.
Aenea looked down at the dark water of the river. "And then Robinson Crusoe stripped naked, swam out to his ship, filled his pockets with biscuits, and swam back to shore. . . ."
"What?" I said, hefting my pack and frowning at the child.
"Nothing," she said, getting to her feet. "Just an old pre-Hegira book that Uncle Martin used to read to me. He used to say that proofreaders have always been incompetent assholes -- even fourteen hundred years ago."
His scifi can be a joy to read. :)
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3 a: to reduce drastically especially in number b: to cause great destruction or harm to
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