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Okay, while this novel is very good, there are still a few flaws, inconsistencies and what not. So here's a short list of what I've been able to come up with. Feel free to add, comment or criticize:
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<LI>Nita's changing hair color: Okay, in the first book (and probably elsewhere as well) she was described as "dark-haired." Later in the afterword to the 20th Anniversary Edition, a girl with "dark blonde" hair is described as looking "exactly" like Nita. Now on the first page of W@W Nita is described as a "light brunette."
So, explanations anyone?
<LI>Dark matter, dark energy, and, well, dark stuff: Okay, the idea that dark matter is pushing the universe apart does make for an neat premise for W@W, except that, it's technically wrong. Dark matter in fact, may actually be keeping the universe together, not pushing it apart, it is dark energy that is pushing the universe apart. So, if a cosmologist were to read this book for fun, he or she would be in for a bit of a surprise. The names "dark matter" and "dark energy" are in fact a bit misleading. The word "dark" here has less to do about their color, and more to do about what little we know about them. Cosmologists so far have inferred through gravitational effects that the mass of the universe is much higher than what is observed, so the "missing" matter is dubbed as being "dark," and similarly, when cosmologists discovered that the universe was expanding after observing a type 1A supernova, and couldn't explain what was causing the push, they dubbed the extra energy as being "dark." The word has been used this way in the past, for example, Africa was once called the "dark continent" by Europeans for a while because they knew little about it. So, just a technicality, but it would've been interesting to see DD dealing with "dark energy" as the Pullulus
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<LI>Ronan's pup tent: This is very minor, but since when did Ronan have a pup tent? Did the Defender want to do him a favor for sharing his head space and give him an excursus for spring break too?
<LI>The color of Roshaun's re-attuned gem: At the end, Dairine gets to keep Roshaun's gem which has adjusted itself to be attuned to the Sun and takes on it's color, namely, a light golden yellow. The only problem is that that's the color of the sun after it's been filtered through the Earth's atmosphere (the same reason the sky's blue), it's really bright white. This doesn't affect the storyline much though, just another technicality.[/list]
Anyway, this is about all that I came across, as a I said, feel free to comment or add your own.
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<LI>Nita's changing hair color: Okay, in the first book (and probably elsewhere as well) she was described as "dark-haired." Later in the afterword to the 20th Anniversary Edition, a girl with "dark blonde" hair is described as looking "exactly" like Nita. Now on the first page of W@W Nita is described as a "light brunette."
So, explanations anyone?<LI>Dark matter, dark energy, and, well, dark stuff: Okay, the idea that dark matter is pushing the universe apart does make for an neat premise for W@W, except that, it's technically wrong. Dark matter in fact, may actually be keeping the universe together, not pushing it apart, it is dark energy that is pushing the universe apart. So, if a cosmologist were to read this book for fun, he or she would be in for a bit of a surprise. The names "dark matter" and "dark energy" are in fact a bit misleading. The word "dark" here has less to do about their color, and more to do about what little we know about them. Cosmologists so far have inferred through gravitational effects that the mass of the universe is much higher than what is observed, so the "missing" matter is dubbed as being "dark," and similarly, when cosmologists discovered that the universe was expanding after observing a type 1A supernova, and couldn't explain what was causing the push, they dubbed the extra energy as being "dark." The word has been used this way in the past, for example, Africa was once called the "dark continent" by Europeans for a while because they knew little about it. So, just a technicality, but it would've been interesting to see DD dealing with "dark energy" as the Pullulus
.<LI>Ronan's pup tent: This is very minor, but since when did Ronan have a pup tent? Did the Defender want to do him a favor for sharing his head space and give him an excursus for spring break too?
<LI>The color of Roshaun's re-attuned gem: At the end, Dairine gets to keep Roshaun's gem which has adjusted itself to be attuned to the Sun and takes on it's color, namely, a light golden yellow. The only problem is that that's the color of the sun after it's been filtered through the Earth's atmosphere (the same reason the sky's blue), it's really bright white. This doesn't affect the storyline much though, just another technicality.[/list]
Anyway, this is about all that I came across, as a I said, feel free to comment or add your own.
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