[LMB] OT: When Favourite Authors Screw Up

[Mark A. Mandel]

I have a few examples that generalize, badly of course, to "female fantasy authors who can't count to seven". One is LeGuin, from The Farthest Shore, and I believe I've found another case from Our Favorite Author, but I can't remember where.

(evil grin)

m a m

----- Original Message ----
From: Scott Raun <sraun at fireopal.org>
To: Discussion of the works of Lois McMaster Bujold. <lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, October 1, 2007 7:28:57 PM
Subject: Re: [LMB] OT: When Favourite Authors Screw Up

raye_j at yahoo.com wrote:
> Anyone else encountered something like that, where
> what should be a casually passed-over aside hits just
> the right way to reveal a sad lack of research, and
> colours the rest of the book?

Well, there's the two page chapter in _Dragonflight_ that I just skip
over every time. I've forgotten the exact numbers, but Anne McCaffrey
made a basic math error that bugs me every time I read the book. (And it
wasn't fixed in the most recent edition I've seen.)








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