1984
- Publisher: Penguin
- Publication date: April 8, 2008
- Genre: Science Fiction
- designer: Shepard Fairey
- Typeface: Compacta
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This is a lovely cover, but I finally got to see the actual book in person last week, and it's one of the most shoddily constructed mass-market paperbacks I've ever seen. The cover stock is horrid, as is the stock for the interior pages (those interior pages, by the way, look like they were typeset by one of those people who write the Gettysburg Address on postage stamps in their spare time; no breathing room at all).
Looks like Penguin blew their entire budget on giving the cover a pretty picture, and had nothing left for the rest of the book.
You might find this article by Slate on the crumminess of UK book binding interesting. I just bought this set of sci-fi books from Gollancz and I gotta admit, the paper is crap.
Why did Andre the Giant and those stars have to make an appearance on this otherwise, very good cover?
There is no conceptual reason for them to appear on the cover of this literary classic in my opinion.
The stars are overdoing it, and I feel the eye could at least be different, if not something else entirely. However the colours work pretty well.