Things that I noticed: p.65: they come to Lanargh after weeks; is this relative to the Port Sanger departure, or from the Queg Town departure? p.65: Lanargh not in league with those rimming Laning Continent; this seems like a feudal alliance of city-states p.65: Tundra [in the North] replaced by conifers from Old Earth around Lanargh p.66: long ago, the Enemy was defeated. There's no hint about this enemy p.66: Lanargh has five "famous" hills p.66: 500 matriarchal clans in Lanargh p.67: some animals: red howler monkeys, flapping mere-dragons p.67: Port Sanger: population of several thousand p.67: clans have "secret tongues" p.68: "Book Four", the Riddle of Lysos, with a 18-letter alphabet p.71: the priest talks about a "Time of Changes" - hmmm... sounds familiar, doesn't it? p.72: the visitor ship is in the Sky; there was language drift in Stratos p.75: [Timeline] near-rape episode in the 4th day in port p.76: Maia stripped completely - might this be one reason for the p.79 male rut? p.80: Maia and Leie in the city the same afternoon p.81: weapon: stun tridents p.83: 100 year old clock; marks "3/4 Day" time p.85: "no pictures yet of the one that landed" p.86: middle-moon Athena hung above western horizon, a slender crescent; sun behind a bank of sea clouds; starts coming out p.86: Savant Sydonia [p.89] of clan Youngblood p.86: Enemy ship was as big as an asteroid [duh! asteroids can be of any size] p.87: there's censorship in the TV broadcast p.87: the visitor proclaims wonder p.89: the inverviewer is Eilene Yarbro p.90: night with stars and satellites; no sign of visitor ship; black obscurity of "The Claw" [dusty Nebula behind which is Earth and the rest of the Phyllum] >Analysis: >It seems a bit odd, that given the existence of television that clans do >not have some way of communicating that would avoid having fully-loaded >ships pull into harbors where there are no clients. (pg 65) > Of course that's because *you* have never lived in place where the communications were state-owned. In those dark ages - a mere 10 years ago - a phone line cost about US$ 5000.00 > Then again, Stratoians have >"esteemed phrenologists" (pg 70). Phrenology is the now-discredited >belief that you can judge a person by the shape of his or her skull. > And they are listed among other charlatans, like astrologers, etc >-Stratos has three moons, not two, as previously thought. (pg 86) > At least three - Brin seems to like multi-mooned Earth-like planets. I believe these are the exception, not the rule. Also, Artemis, even though a lesser moon, is close enough that there are recognizable features on it. This is strange, because if the moontides of Stratos are small, then the moons should have a much smaller relative size than Earth's Moon. Alberto Monteiro
