[LMB] authors goofs that bug me

[James Nicoll]

Jeanette Winterson's THE STONE GOD is a collection of goofs, wrapped 
around weepy apocalyptarianism.

The very first line in hte book is "This new world weighs a yatto-gram."

If by "yatto-gram" she means yottagram, then this world is about 1/6,000th 
the mass of the Earth. Unfortunately, the new world appears to be the 
Earth or a world so similar as to be indistinguishable from Earth.

To quote from Winterson's recent bit in New Scientist:

"But you shouldn't fake it because science is too important, it's the 
basis for our lives. I expect a lot more science in fiction because 
science is so rich."

And don't get me started on the orthogenesis in this book.