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Originally Posted by Lutraa
No apparent fact-checking resulting in egregious errors.
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Agreed.
Example 1. Historical (can't recall time period but was definitely too early) in which one character experiences an "electric thrill".
Example 2. An alien invasion in which a couple of people have climbed onto the backs of giant monsters, then rescued by fighter jets HOVERING over them. They are WINCHED up (or thrown a rope - I can't recall) and comfortably join the pilots in their cockpits (clearly more spacious than any fighter cockpit I've ever seen) and fly off to safety! Sure, it could have been a Harrier jumpjet but then winching someone up? It was near the end of the novel so I finished it, but I won't be picking up anything more by this author. What really disturbs me is that this was published by DAW and was in Booklist's Top Ten SF/Fantasy for its year.
Example 3. This was a movie which was actually pretty good apart from this one conversation. A nurse talks about the trauma of an operation separating conjoined twins in which the boy died and the girl survived.
I can let go a few errors but too many spelling errors will make a book unreadable. Likewise the inability to construct a sentence.