Thanks. I think it looks pretty good myself, although I'm still not convinced about the interminably long subtitle -- an American disease, alas. I've decided that in future I'm going to consult only the UK editions of books and thereby save myself about six pages of typing up biblio . . .
Yes, but so was Ben Goldacre's book Bad Science which was published as exactly that, no more, in the UK. For the US edn, published after some delay, out came the metre-long-subtitle syndrome. Luckily, I read (and bibliographed) the UK edn, heh heh.
I know the academic phenomenon you mention only too well: the Keith Brooke scholarly work to which I recently contributed a chapter on time-travel fiction has a title+subtitle that's about a paragraph and a half long, with the hugely embarrassing result that I can never offhand remember the title of a book to which I've contributed a significant chunk!
That's my guess too. Unfortunately the JPG is at fairly lo-res, so blowing it up doesn't help much -- it just starts pixelating. Certainly a cut of beef would have some relevance to the text.
Yes, I think the Prometheus Art Dept has done me pretty handsomely. 'Course, this is just the visual: everything could change once the Marketing Dept's gotten its hands on things!
a great topic
I hope so!
Hm. I'm slightly offended no denialist trolls have turned up yet to tell me they've never felt so ill as the day after they'd had their flu vaccination and twelve helpings of ice cream, so it must have been the flu shot made them sick . . .
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Thanks. I think it looks pretty good myself, although I'm still not convinced about the interminably long subtitle -- an American disease, alas. I've decided that in future I'm going to consult only the UK editions of books and thereby save myself about six pages of typing up biblio . . .
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the interminable subtitle is an academic thing here, too
Yes, but this isn't an academic book. It's for plebs like me.
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Yes, but so was Ben Goldacre's book Bad Science which was published as exactly that, no more, in the UK. For the US edn, published after some delay, out came the metre-long-subtitle syndrome. Luckily, I read (and bibliographed) the UK edn, heh heh.
I know the academic phenomenon you mention only too well: the Keith Brooke scholarly work to which I recently contributed a chapter on time-travel fiction has a title+subtitle that's about a paragraph and a half long, with the hugely embarrassing result that I can never offhand remember the title of a book to which I've contributed a significant chunk!
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Not too bad, is it? I'm still uncertain what the pink thing at bottom left is, though.
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Looks like a cut of meat
That's my guess too. Unfortunately the JPG is at fairly lo-res, so blowing it up doesn't help much -- it just starts pixelating. Certainly a cut of beef would have some relevance to the text.
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Looks really nice. Can't wait for the release.
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Thanks, JM!
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Just kidding. Great cover, and a great topic!
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Yes, I think the Prometheus Art Dept has done me pretty handsomely. 'Course, this is just the visual: everything could change once the Marketing Dept's gotten its hands on things!
a great topic
I hope so!
Hm. I'm slightly offended no denialist trolls have turned up yet to tell me they've never felt so ill as the day after they'd had their flu vaccination and twelve helpings of ice cream, so it must have been the flu shot made them sick . . .
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The next night they went out and drank brandy and soda. They got drunk.
The night after that they went out and drank rum and soda. They got drunk.
They concluded that since soda-water was the one common factor, it must be what was making them drunk.
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Hm. I like that. It may have to be stolen . . .
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Okay, I'll rephrase that: borrow with extreme prejudice.
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The book looks . . . incredibly interesting!
Yes! Yes! Keep saying that please!