Monday, December 29, 2014

You Can't Judge a Book by its Cover

Especially when the designers are morons.

This is the cover of the latest Sara Paretsky book:


As you might gather from the title, the book has something to do with nuclear physics. But the symbol for radiation hazard is this:


This is the symbol that is on the cover, which is the symbol for a biological hazard, not a radiological one:


I'd guess that this is what happens when everyone involved majored in English or art design; they likely took a basic science survey class in college and since most science classes are held in the morning, they likely slept through most of the lectures.
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3 comments:

  1. Old NFO12/29/2014 1:49 PM

    Yeah, missed the boat on that one... Problem is, how many readers will even notice?

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  2. Expatriate Owl12/29/2014 7:03 PM

    No less likely anymore is that their liberal arts program was too politically-correct to offer such Eurocentric courses.

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  3. Joe12/30/2014 8:50 AM

    High probability that they did it because the biohazard symbol looks awesome.

    I love Paretsky, but I hate what happens to nuclear physics in the hands of a novelist. Haven't yet decided whether to read this one.

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