From: shunn	Date: July 13th, 2004 08:30 am (UTC)		(Link)

First, the error would likely have been transmitted from Bill Barton's manuscript directly into YBSF without reference to the magazine version, where the error may or may not have been caught and fixed. Sure, Bill should have caught it himself, but it's the St. Martin's copy editor who allowed it to get into print—regrettable, yes, but understandable given how fast (for the glacially paced publishing industry) they get that book into print every year. Beware, because I'm sure you're going to find more such copyediting errors.

It might have been somewhat better if there'd been time to coordinate having 25 authors proof galleys of their stories, but there wasn't. If there had, my bio blurb would have stated, correctly, that I had a story in Washed by a Wave of Wind, not In the Shadow of the Wall, incorrectly.

So that's how it happened. It's too bad, but I hope it doesn't detract too much from what I think is a quite outstanding story.