[bookshare-discuss] Re: Requesting Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clark
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:23:45 -0400
Dear Ann and Booksharian Friends,
Sorry for any confusion I caused by writing the wrong date for the SF
meeting which, as Ann and Evan pointed out is on May 8th. I'd have felt bad
if anyone showed up on the bogus date I named at the end of my previous post
about Clarke's Imperial Earth.
You're right. It's always better to check a book than to draw conclusions
about it based on its rating alone.
I'm going through Imperial Earth now and can tell you the contents is a
jumble with chapter names difficult to read and page numbers appearing in
clumps unassociated with the chapters they are supposed to represent.
For computer reasons I can't begin to guess, many lines begin with as in the
example below. ATXts0ATXbrdr0 Sometimes these characters are the only
writing on a line and sometimes they are followed by the text. There are
many line fragments through out the book likely caused by extra hard
returns.
Here is a sample of the last paragraphs from the bottom of page 12 and the
first paragraphs of page 13.
And when at last he fell back into sleep, he would always dream of Earth.
ATXts0ATXbrdr0
ATXts0ATXbrdr0 2
ATXts0ATXbrdr0
ATXts0ATXbrdr0 DYNASTY
ATXts0ATXbrdr0
13
ATXts0ATXbrdr0 Malcolm Makenzie had been the right man, at the right time.
Others before him had looked covetously at Titan, but he was the first to
work out all the engineering details and to conceive the total system of
orbiting scoops, compressors, and cheap, expendable tanks that could hold
their liquid hydrogen with minimum loss as they dropped leisurely sunward.
Back in the 2180's, Malcolm had been a promising young aerospace designer at
Port Lowell, trying to 6
ATXts0ATXbrdr0
ATXts0ATXbrdr0 make aircraft that could carry useful payloads in the tenuous
Martian atmosphere. In those days he had been Malcolm Mackenzie, for the
computer mishap that had irrevocably changed the amily name did not occur
until he emigrated to Titan. After wasting five years in futile attempts at
correction, Malcolm had finally co-operated with the inevitable. It was one
of the few battles in which the Makenzies had ever admitted defeat, but now
they were quite proud of their unique name.
ATXts0ATXbrdr0 When he had finished his calculations and stolen enough
drafting-computer time to prepare a beautiful set of drawings, young Malcolm
had approached the Planning Office of the Martian Department of
Transportation. He did not anticipate serious criticism, because he knew
that his facts and his logic were impeccable.
Family is missing the f so appears as amily.
Here are the first lines of page 15.
ATXts0ATXbrdr0 "Don't believe all you've read about the Gnomes
ofAristarchus; they're as careful as anyone else. Theyhave to be. Bankers on
Earth can still go on breathing
ATXts0ATXbrdr0 ATXul1024 if ATXul0 they make a bad investment "
ATXts0ATXbrdr0 But it was the Bank of Selene, three years later, that put up
the five megasols for the initial feasibility study.
Imperial Earth looks like a good candidate for Carrie's new program of
letting us improve a file already in the collection. A global replace of
that string of characters with nothing would do wonders for this book.
Here's more with little bugs like 2 words missing the space between them, an
apostrophe in the middle of a word for no reason, a broken word and assorted
numerals here and there.
They have is run together.
It would be too frustrating for me to read this book as it is, but it looks
very doable as a validation project.
And, Anne, I know Arthur's last name ends with e. I should have proofread
more carefully.
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 1:00 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Requesting Imperial Earth by Arthur C.
Clark
Hi all,
Lissi, you mean May 8, 2008, not tomorrow. Have you looked at the "good"
copy, and is it really horrible?
Ann P.
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