Starsight Typos

[WeiryWriter he/him]

Please post any Starsight typos you come across in this thread. Give a clear explanation of what the typo is along with a reference of where it can be found.

[Paleo he/him]

I've noticed a typo in my Kindle copy in chapter 33:

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The wisest choice on my part seemed to be silence. Outside the window, we passed into a part of town with grand buildings, built with domes and large gardens. The government quarter? I was pretty sure that was where we were.

- Starsight - Chapter 33

"silence" should be "silent"

Edit: On second thought, that's not actually a typo, I just read the sentence with a different cadence which made it sound like one.

Edited November 30, 2019 by Paleo

[Wyndlerunner he/him]

I don't know if this was an issue for anyone else, but my Hardcover copy distinctly noted the second to last chapter as 'Epilogue', but then numbered the last chapter. I don't know if this is unique to my copy, or if this was an intentional fake-out, but that's certainly a major error if non-intentional

[RShara she/her]

24 minutes ago, Ookla the Eccentric said:

I don't know if this was an issue for anyone else, but my Hardcover copy distinctly noted the second to last chapter as 'Epilogue', but then numbered the last chapter. I don't know if this is unique to my copy, or if this was an intentional fake-out, but that's certainly a major error if non-intentional

This appears to have been intentional.

[Wyndlerunner he/him]

1 minute ago, RShara said:

This appears to have been intentional.

Gosh dang it. The end of film fake outs have followed me to books too.

[FoxOfFire he/him]

pg. 207, US hardcover.

"You're scheduled for pickup again at 9000."

Unless this is weird Starsight time, that should probably be 0900.

[LadyLameness]

 

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“Spensa! What do you think I am? I would never gloat at you when you could see me."

Should this have been 'Who do you think I am'?

 

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"“Skyward Nine,” said Freyja, the tall blonde girl. “Callsign: FM. Confirmed.”" - Skyward Chapter 9

"Sadie—the new girl who had been assigned as my wingmate—flew up behind me in Skyward Nine"  - Starsight Chapter 2

As FM graduated, should she have not kept the same flight number and Sadie given one of the empty spots? I'm unsure if this was done intentionally. 

[MCrockett]

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We don't know what the enemy is capable of - or really even who the enemy are. Chapter 5 pg. 44

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We're an egg with an extra-hard shell, yes, but we're done as soon as the enemy realize that they can't crack us with a spoon and decide to get a sledgehammer instead. Interlude pg. 191

Both quotes are from Cobb, so perhaps this is just the way he speaks. But I searched a few online dictionaries and couldn't find anywhere where the word 'enemy' is plural. The plural for enemy should be 'enemies.' 

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Not just cytonic communication; they could hear even things like radio waves. Chapter 10 pg. 94

Since this sentence begins with a comparative, "not just," the word 'even' should be rearranged as thus: Not just cytonic communication; they could even hear things like radio waves. Sure, some may argue that 'even' is an adjective for radio waves. But the comparative words at the start indicate otherwise.

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- I recorded only four hours of actually restful sleep for you last night. Chapter 18 pg. 173

The word, 'actually,' is an adverb that may be qualifying the adjective, 'restful.' However, it just seems unusual. I think the word, 'actual,' should have been used instead. As in, "- I recorded only four hours of actual, restful sleep for you last night."

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It was the things the holograms covered up that could get confusing. Chapter 30 pg. 327

Since 'It' is singular, I think the sentence should read, "It was the thing the holograms covered up that could get confusing." 

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Someone shouted from farther down the hallway, but I didn't look - I focused on the stairwell, which was where Cuna had said. Chapter 45 pg. 446

This sentence ends weird. I know it's referring to the location of the stairwell that Cuna mentioned earlier but the sentence feels like it ends abruptly. I think it should end like, "which was where Cuna had said it would be." 

[Starborn42 she/her]

On 08/04/2020 at 4:11 PM, LadyLameness said:

 

Should this have been 'Who do you think I am'?

 

As FM graduated, should she have not kept the same flight number and Sadie given one of the empty spots? I'm unsure if this was done intentionally. 

No, because FM temporarily left Skyward flight then rejoined. FM was a scout at the end of Skyward and Jorgen was assigned to Riptide flight. Jorgen’s flight number remained 01 because he is flight leader. 

[AonEne he/him]

Ch. 14 pg 128, Spensa refers to Morriumur as a him.

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It still set me on edge, and I kept finding myself glancing out of the corner of my eye toward it. Who was piloting the thing? That dione with the two-tone face? No, I’d seen him getting into a simple shuttlecraft, not some sleek fighter. In fact, I was sure I hadn’t seen this ship on any of the launchpads. Who…

As she knows at that point that diones go by they/them and does not misgender Morriumur or anyone else in the whole book as far as I've noticed, this feels like a mistake to me. 

Pg 131 in the same chapter: 

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Jorgen, for example, usually flew a largo--a heavy fighter with a large shield and a lot of firepower. 

In Skyward, the ship class Largo was capitalized, and normally all ship classes are capitalized in this book as well.