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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
Sonoluminescence 
To be fair, it's a fantasy book, flying sailboats powered by windspirits, sound may make pretty lights when combined with elementals  |
So did you recognize it from memory, or did you have to do some searching?
I'd heard the synesthesia excuse before, but wasn't buying it. The author's short stories had always amused and interested me prior to his first novel, but I never saw any evidence of a desire to engage in experimentally "clever" prose of that nature. I'm fairly certain it was just a brain-fart that the proofers did not pick up on.
Maybe "Gunfire lit up" and then a later revision to the "sound of gunfire" without following through on the rest of the sentence. Probably not fair of me to let it ruin the book for me, but I am what I am and it was deal-breaker for me (though some awkward POV switches within action scenes probably didn't help either).