Jul 12
Wes’ Art Direction:
Editor – “Look I’ve gotta hang up. The cover just needs to have the authors’ names, then ‘The Web’ in a subtle font and 2027 undern-”
Graphic Designer – “What? Sorry, your signal’s breaking up again I can’t..”
Editor – “I said put THE! WEB!! and TWENTY-TWENTY-SEVEN on it!!!… ah crap i dropped my cigar, now my chair’s ON FIRE!!”
Published 1999

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July 12th, 2012 at 11:10 am
I suppose “The Net” was taken? And “The Information Superhighway” wouldn’t fit on the cover?
July 12th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
I never got to this one: reading the first two thousand and twenty-six volumes of this series was more than enough for me.
July 12th, 2012 at 12:42 pm
I can see this book…on the “business” shelves.
July 12th, 2012 at 4:40 pm
In 2027, the World Wide Web will be powered by a glowing circuit board encased in a ball of fire blasting out names of mid-list sci-fi authors. Awesome!
July 12th, 2012 at 6:24 pm
How come only the B’s are alphabetized?
July 12th, 2012 at 7:57 pm
“How come only the B’s are alphabetized?”
If I had to guess, Maggie Furey’s name is positioned there so it will be in larger letters and give greater prominence to the only featured female author.
July 12th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
You think this is bad? You should’ve seen the art for the ‘Gopher 2017′ volume I edited about a decade ago.
July 12th, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Spiderman’s appointment diary was minute accurate.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
Is this a text book, kind of like “Internetting for Dummies v.2027″?
July 18th, 2012 at 3:52 pm
One of mine I’m afraid. Not offering excuses.