{"id":288,"date":"2006-06-05T08:20:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T08:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/05\/typo-of-the-month\/"},"modified":"2006-06-05T08:20:44","modified_gmt":"2006-06-05T08:20:44","slug":"typo-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/05\/typo-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Typo of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Locus<\/cite> is the semi-official magazine of SF– its reviews are quoted almost as prominently as those of better-known mass media outlets in cover blurbs and the like– but it remains a small operation, a “semi-prozine” in Hugo ballot terms. That means most issues aren’t edited quite as carefully as they might be, and there are usually some typos or grammar errors in the reviews.<\/p>\n

This month, there’s a real gem, in Tim Pratt’s review of Joe Lansdale’s Retro-Pulp Tales<\/cite>:<\/p>\n

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Alex Irvine’s “New Game in Town” is an exquisite story of small-time crooks and poo hustlers that takes a sharp turn into uncanny SF.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hoo, boy, have we ever got trouble in River City…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Locus is the semi-official magazine of SF– its reviews are quoted almost as prominently as those of better-known mass media outlets in cover blurbs and the like– but it remains a small operation, a “semi-prozine” in Hugo ballot terms. That means most issues aren’t edited quite as carefully as they might be, and there are… Continue reading Typo of the Month<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sf","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}