Erratum Erratum An erratum or corrigendum (plurals: errata, corrigenda) (comes from ) is a correction of a published text. As a general rule, publishers issue an erratum for a production error (i.e., an error introduced during the publishing process) and a corrigendum for an author's error. An erratum is most commonly issued shortly after its original text is published. Patches to security issues in a computer program are also sometimes called errata. "Erratum", like "corrigendum", can also be used as a term for an error itself. According to the "Chicago Manual of Style", "Errata, lists of errors and their corrections, may
City at the End of Time Inflight Magazine" in September 2008, Bear said that what inspired him to write "City at the End of Time" was the question, "What if we're still primitive in our thinking [about physics and cosmology]?", and this led to the idea for a story of "a Universe that goes on and on and on, and how reality might have to be changed by that circumstance." Bear told "Locus" magazine in August 2008 that he had found what appears to be a "continuity" in British science fiction: H. G. Wells's "The Time Machine" (1895), Arthur C. Clarke's "The City and the Stars"