The War on Mankind: And the Rise of Homo Ursus

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The War on Mankind: And the Rise of Homo Ursus

I wouldn’t want my name on this, either. (h/t Nick)

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Waffles
Waffles
9 years ago

To me, nothing says end of the world war quite like the font: Jokerman.

L.
L.
9 years ago
Reply to  Waffles

I was just going to say that was a happy, perky font to be denoting the end of the world.

Kris
Kris
9 years ago

Did I. M. mean the war ON mankind?

Kris
Kris
9 years ago
Reply to  Kris

From the description: “A few great authors have correctly predicted the future of science… By comparison, this book…”

Clearly I.M. meant “contrast”.

Grasp of language any better than that of bookcovers? Doubtful.

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
9 years ago
Reply to  Kris

Kris says: “Did I. M. mean the war ON mankind?”

The Amazon listing on the kindle versions lists it as “The War On Mankind”

Kris
Kris
9 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

So 25% of the title on the cover is WRONG. Yeah, that’s not good.

Viergacht
Viergacht
9 years ago

My lord, the description! It disses H. G. Wells, George Orwell, and Ray Bradbury and then manages to misspell Jules Verne.

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
9 years ago

Let’s be frair. He mentions Jules Verne twice and Jules Vern only once.

“…the greatest crisis to mankind in the last 250,000 years…”

Self-published books with computer-generated pseudohumans on the covers? (That’s what literary agents, traditional publishers and human models say.)

red
red
9 years ago

The pseudohuman thing might sort of work on this cover with a Terminator-like font and the correct title, especially with that “Rise of the Homo Ursus” line (“Homo Ursus” sound like something that is half man and half bear, unlike the cover picture, which appears to be a fully bare pseudo-woman).

At any rate, Jokerman would be good for the author’s anonynym, “I. B. Baak.”

James F. Brown
James F. Brown
9 years ago

Chugging too much beta carotene is bad for the eyes.

Robbie
Robbie
9 years ago

I’m guessing this is about some kind of sentient bears attacking humans. So it should be “the rise of Ursus sapiens”. With Ursus sapiens in italics, of course, but I can’t do that here.

DED
DED
9 years ago
Reply to  Robbie

Just do this: <i> to start the italics and </i> to end them.

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
9 years ago

OK does this work:
type Ursus sapiens using html tags,
type Ursus sapiens without
the space after the

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
9 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

Oh shoot, the editor recognizes the tag delimeters (less-than and greater-than keys) even with spaces before and after. The comment editor needs a preview mode for testing (hint, hint) and/or a list of common tags.