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January 17, 2009
Camp Concentration and R.U.R. have almost identical covers
Look at the similarity between the cover of Camp Concentration, the story of a strain of syphilis that makes you a genius for a while before it kills you:
Camp Concentration: A Novel by Thomas M. Disch
And the cover of R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), the play that coined the word robots:
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Penguin Classics) by Karel Capek
The second cover seems to be only on the 2004 edition cover, while the first is at least as old as the 1999 edition of that book. A quick Google search for the two titles and the word cover gave no indication of any relevant comments. I wonder if I was the first person to notice. Is it weird that two famous science fiction books could have almost identical covers and no one else noticed in four years?
Posted by OneEyedMan at January 17, 2009 1:58 AM
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