Two minor things that had escaped my attention earlier: (a) p.79: one of the near-rapists of Maia tells his gang: "Come on. You can whiff she's just a virgie. Let's go clean up an' head for the Bell House." Bell House? Or _Beller_ House? (b) this is even more subtle, and might be the first "typographical error" detected by this analysis :-) p.83: Maia and Leie watch the Clock mark the "3/4 day" time Some time later [some minutes, maybe less than an hour]: p.86: "The middle moon, Athena, hung above the western horizon, a slender crescent with the plain of Mare Virginitatis brightnening rapidly as the sun quenched behind a bank of sea clouds. It was a clear evening over Lanargh, with a chill in the air. The first stars were coming out." This is interesting, because, since Stratos has no orbital inclination, day and night should have the same duration, so what can explain the fact the Sun sets [say] one hour after the "3/4 day" marked by the Clock? But it's even worse than that: there's something the astronomers call "the equation of time", caused by the orbital eccentricity of Stratos's orbit [on Earth, it's a combination of the small eccentricity with the huge inclination], that relates the (real) Sun to a "mean" Sun. During the "autumn" period, when Stratos is climbing towards aphelium, this equation gives a positive [real - mean] value. For example, with ecc = 0.2 Sunset would be 1 h 30 min earlier than 3/4 day on the middle of autumn. Alberto Monteiro
