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Originally Posted by haertig
My response is to switch to a different author. In this case, James Rollins. I initially found Matthew Reilly by searching for "authors like James Rollins" in the first place. So I gave Reilly a try. Not bad writing, and fun, albeit it sometimes over the top stories. But the production quality turned me back to Rollins, who has consistently delivered good production quality in the past (that's no guaranty for the future, I know - especially since over half of my Rollins reading has been paperbacks, not eBooks). This is not really fair to Matthew Reilly, because he is a good writer. However, if I can't stay in the story because of errors then I am not as anxious to read the next book. This could be a one-off too. Maybe his other books are better in production quality. I did read his "Ice Station", which was a fun read too, and I didn't notice errors in that one. They might have been there, as they are in all books, but the low quantity did not bring them up to the level where they got annoying, or even noticeable/memorable.
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I'd likely have less patience with the Matt Reilly errors than the Spinrad ones. The Reilly book is by a big 5 publisher whereas the Spinrad book was likely OCR'd from a paperback and self published.
I find myself wondering if the version of Mind Game Amazon is selling is better or worse than the fan-scanned version that I'm sure is floating around out there (I assume any/all old sci-fi have fan-scanned editions). Maybe he should follow the Walter Jon Williams example?