Designer: Peter Buchanan-Smith
title: A Shortcut Through Time : The Path to the Quantum Computer (Vintage)
author: George Johnson
publisher: Vintage, 2004
Designer: Peter Buchanan-Smith
title: A Shortcut Through Time : The Path to the Quantum Computer (Vintage)
author: George Johnson
publisher: Vintage, 2004
This is quite possibly my most favorite book cover of all time. It handles perfectly the message, does so in a cheeky and conceptual way, which makes sense to the sci-fi nerd in me – who knows exactly what is going on in the wormhole here, and the aesthetician in me who loves the balance and the effect. Bravo!
— Chris Papasadero, 2006-05-18 11:01:00
Wow.
— benjamin kinzer, 2006-05-18 13:06:00
Very nice!
— Colin Day, 2006-05-18 13:28:00
That is exceptionally nice and 381 times better than the original cover that you can see on Amazon.
— Matthew, 2006-05-18 15:05:00
Cool!
— Alvin, 2006-05-18 16:03:00
I would love to see it without the Polaroid white border around it
— mike, 2006-05-19 11:24:00
A bit of a gaffe on the first ‘h’ in Through, but otherwise a great cover.
— rek, 2006-05-19 15:06:00
How do you know the fourth-dimensional nature of a wormhole isn’t projecting the existence of the h into the future time-space continuum? Huh? HUH!? The image of the H is being projected to your eyes at the speed of light, but the h is actually travelling FASTER than the speed of light, so you see two h’s.
(I’m going to be laughed at for this, but I actually figured this out after learning of the Picard Maneuver, from Star Trek, hahaha! http://www.ccdump.org/picardmaneuver.htm oh dear.)
— Chris Papasadero, 2006-05-25 14:44:00
Well, the upper h goes to the right side of the wormhole, like it’s going in, and the bottom is to the left, like it’s coming out… I bet if you took the bit in the “wormhole” on the bottom it would match up to what’s in the “wormhole” on the top. Nice detail actually.
I think it works real well. It’s totally busted up but you still read it with no problem.
— jdube, 2006-05-25 18:12:00
Can I get a poster?
— saltyC, 2006-05-26 06:47:00
The title is great (really great), but it’s a pity they couldn’t come up with a better, more fun, more integrated way of integrating the subtitle and author’s name.
— James Unwin, 2006-06-01 09:11:00
Id say the double use of the h is intentional. smashing cover.
— graham thew, 2006-06-07 16:36:00
So many things right about this cover…
— Chris G, 2006-06-09 16:31:00
I find that the typography at the bottom is somewhat unresolved.
— perry, 2006-08-25 12:52:00