Typo in _Starwater Strains_?

On p. 217 of Starwater Strains (U.S. hardbound), in "The Boy Who Hooked the Sun", the phrase "pelted him with the shining stones of Atlantis" is a recurring motif, except at what would be its third occurrence, where it is printed as "pelted him with the shining stories of Atlantis". Given the similar appearance of "stories" and "stones", I think this is likely to be a mis-transcription somewhere along the line, not some encoding of "the story that is a stone" or "the story among the stones" or "third 'stone' from the Sun" or anything. If anyone reading this has access to the Cheap Street chapbook, could you tell us how the word appears in that edition? -- Dan Rabin

"But the boy only laughed at her and pelted her with the shining stones of Atlantis, with agates and alexandrites, moonstones and onyxes, rubies, sardonyxes, and sapphires..." Is this the third instance? If so it reads as written, with "stones, not "stories."

Dear list members, Mr. Rabin is correct. The word in Starwater Strains (on page 217, paragraph 5, line 1) is misprinted as "stories". The Cheap Street chapbook (it's the press' solstice greeting for 1985) has "stones" in that sen- tence (page 7, paragraph 2, line 2). The opposition that Wolfe employs is between "shining stones of At- lantis" for most of the story, and "shining stones of Uranus" in the final instance. He does not appear ex- plicitly to contrast "stones" with "stories". I'm afraid that mournings glory refers to the fourth instance, in which the boy chases away the magic woman from the hills, the sorceress. It occurs in paragraph 7 on page 217. The instance to which Mr. Rabin refers is the third, in which the boy drives away the clever- est man in the village, its mayor. Nice catch, Mr. Rabin. Best, Mark Millman

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