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January 22, 2009
Deeper into the mystery of the matching covers
As you know, I noticed the other day that Camp Concentration and R.U.R. have almost identical covers.
I looked up the designer of Camp Concentration's cover, and it is by Evan Gaffney, who's firm Evan Gaffney Design is at 601 West 26th Street, Floor 2M, Room M230, New York, NY 10001. Jana Sturbek may also have been involved.
The cover art is by Bob Elsdale and it is licensed from Getty Images> I dug up the specific link, and the work is titled COMPUTER GRAPHICS, BACK OF HEAD . If you believe the note that prints when you choose to "Print preview image", it is copyright sometime between 1999 and 2007. Presumably because this edition of Rossum's Universal Robots came out on March 30, 2004, the photograph for the cover was designed between 1999 and 2003.
Assuming that Elsdale's image is at the early end of this range, it would just barely have existed when the relevant edition of Camp Concentration was published on April 27, 1999. However, if I had to guess, I would hold that Evan Gaffney's cover was available in book stores when Bob Elsdale's took the photograph that was used as the cover of Rossum's Universal Robots.
Posted by OneEyedMan at January 22, 2009 1:21 PM
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