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."

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[dsgood.livejournal.com]

In Emma Bull's War for the Oaks and in Elizabeth Hand's Waking the Moon, there are references to the disease which killed so many of the Dutch elms in the US.

In Brian Aldiss's "Basis for Negotiation," the US President announces that there's a shield against nuclear weapons which will protect all of North America -- not just the US, but also Canada.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

The Dutch elms show up in a lot of places. I even ran across that one in a magazine that shall remain nameless. Professionals in the naturalist business, they should have known better.