Rocket Ship

Rocket Ship

Why, pray tell, would a science fiction reader choose this book instead of literally any other?

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Charles Cassady Jr.
Charles Cassady Jr.
2 years ago

Wasn’t that font (or something like it) famously used for the Great Gatsby? Anyone ever written a sci-fi mashup of Gatsby? Hey, it’s in the public domain; maybe I should’ve done it instead just trolling here. I could’a had movie deals like Seth Grahame-Smith.

Hitch
2 years ago

Hmmm…I don’t think so. Didn’t all the variations of Gatsby (the one with Leonardo DiCaprio) use Art Deco fonts? I mean, one could argue that this font, above, has some Art Deco influence, but…?

Ian
Ian
2 years ago

The title doesn’t exactly help things ether. It sounds so generic and honestly vauge and there ain’t exactly a hook to it.

Hitch
2 years ago
Reply to  Ian

I keep thinking that the (presumably, byline?) of COB is “C.O.D” as in “Cash on Delivery.” Of course, very few young people today have any idea what that means.

But is that a tag line, or a byline? What is that meant to be? What is this cover meant to imply? What genre? What anything? It’s far too vague.

Another Bob
Another Bob
2 years ago
Reply to  Hitch

COB. My first thought is corn. Probably appropriate.

Ian
Ian
2 years ago
Reply to  Another Bob

It’s like that Rick and Morty episode

Last edited 2 years ago by Ian