Sometimes one slips through

[jhetley]

Okay, I'm reading along all innocent and relaxed, and I come across this fossil in the story. A spiral trilobite. Ten million years old.

Clunk.

Guess the author, editor, and copy-editor all need a refresher course.

As the man said, "God is in the details."

Comments

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Using that knowingly could make an interesting story. That fossil isn't supposed to be that new; what happened? (My immediate thought: a careless time traveller found it in his time machine's refrigerator, remembered that he hadn't liked the trilobites he'd cooked, stopped on his journey home, and threw it out.)

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

You'd still have to deal with the spiral aspect...