Icezoid by Bob Downing
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I'm afraid the poor punctuation of this story made it unreadable. I read the whole thing, but only in the hope that it would clear itself up.
Sorry, to sound overly negative, but I feel...
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I really don’t have much to tell you except that all towers are functioning nominally. (nominally refers to a things name)
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That may be technically true, but "nominal" was commonly used in the space program to mean "within expected limits".
Ironically, your critique contains typos / misspelled words of its own:
I don't think the Aussie diet includes quite enough bran ... ;)*
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Far be it from me to claim perfection in the spelling/grammar world, far from it, but I'd hope a story would undergo more thorough editing and proofing than an over-critical lettercol post... :)
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There's more to space opra than meets the "awww" of the beholder.
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And I had 25 out of the 29 Tom Swift books. At a $1.25 each, new, my folks bought me every one I found.
I still miss them.
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... I was an odd child, to put it mildly.
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