Hm. Most men’s minds move from the past to the future and notice something different along the way. Blah blah blah entropy, blah blah blah Big Bang, blah blah blah space-time curvature. Read about it yourself.
So we have a Roman with a halberd (so anachronistic) versus two alien jellyfish blobs. Do they plan on absorbing him or something? Did they transport him to this desolate place?
I mean, I mean I median, I mean I must mode, I mean what’s my chi squared? Is this a standard deviation? I’m suddenly feeling bimodal, or trimodal, close to the Breakdown Point. I can’t find a correlation coefficient that’s not inefficient, I can’t even put my poisson properly in the morning.
But hey, what do I know? I’m The Non-Statistical Man!
Publisher: “Now, this new one by Raymond F. Jones… who are the target audiences?” Bunch of editors:
“Statisticians!”
“People who like gladiator movies!”
“Rock climbers who dream of scaling the Dolomites!”
“Sci-Fi types who are into really weird aliens!”
“People who read Jules Feiffer cartoons!”
“Greeting card fans!”
“Different people!” Publisher: Right… tell the Art Department to do what you just said.”
February 28th, 2017 at 2:41 pm
I don’t fancy those overinflated party balloons’ chances with Mr Pop Pop over there.
February 28th, 2017 at 2:46 pm
Font problems? C’mon, this is clearly the typeface Rod Serling spoke in.
February 28th, 2017 at 2:49 pm
Art direction: ‘Now is it ‘flagella’ or ‘gelatin’? Or ‘conquistador’? Whatever. Put them all on the cover.
February 28th, 2017 at 2:52 pm
Hm. Most men’s minds move from the past to the future and notice something different along the way. Blah blah blah entropy, blah blah blah Big Bang, blah blah blah space-time curvature. Read about it yourself.
February 28th, 2017 at 3:49 pm
The second jelly ball is female. You can tell by the bikini top it’s wearing.
February 28th, 2017 at 4:27 pm
So we have a Roman with a halberd (so anachronistic) versus two alien jellyfish blobs. Do they plan on absorbing him or something? Did they transport him to this desolate place?
Oh, and how’s he “non-statistical”?
February 28th, 2017 at 5:16 pm
Wow. Even the word “different” looks “different.” It’s not the artist who is unknown. It’s the Unknown Typesetter.
February 28th, 2017 at 5:17 pm
I just looked at the cover for a second, and now everything I read sounds like I’m in one of those 1950’s exercise belts.
February 28th, 2017 at 5:34 pm
@DSWBT—from your citation: but the eminent experimentalist physicist Richard A. Muller protests. He says physics should explain reality, not deny it.
It’s funny to replace the word “physics” in that quote with “science fiction cover art.”
February 28th, 2017 at 6:02 pm
@BC: tell him yourself, he’s good about answering fan mail. 😉
February 28th, 2017 at 6:03 pm
‘Thank you, Mario. But your princess is in another castle.’
February 28th, 2017 at 6:44 pm
@Lilli Awesome – And after staring at the cover long enough the text inside the book will appear in the same font!
February 28th, 2017 at 8:22 pm
I mean, I mean I median, I mean I must mode, I mean what’s my chi squared? Is this a standard deviation? I’m suddenly feeling bimodal, or trimodal, close to the Breakdown Point. I can’t find a correlation coefficient that’s not inefficient, I can’t even put my poisson properly in the morning.
But hey, what do I know? I’m The Non-Statistical Man!
February 28th, 2017 at 8:41 pm
@B.Chiclitz: thanks – I’ve spent all afternoon trying to think of a ‘Spearman’s Rho’ joke about the halberdier.
February 28th, 2017 at 10:05 pm
I wonder if they bothered keeping sales figures for this book.
March 1st, 2017 at 9:52 am
Editorial meeting:
Publisher: “Now, this new one by Raymond F. Jones… who are the target audiences?”
Bunch of editors:
“Statisticians!”
“People who like gladiator movies!”
“Rock climbers who dream of scaling the Dolomites!”
“Sci-Fi types who are into really weird aliens!”
“People who read Jules Feiffer cartoons!”
“Greeting card fans!”
“Different people!”
Publisher: Right… tell the Art Department to do what you just said.”
March 1st, 2017 at 12:45 pm
Any relation to the Unteleported Man?
March 1st, 2017 at 7:54 pm
I actually like this, it’s cool and eye-catching even though it’s cheesy.
March 2nd, 2017 at 3:05 am
My eyeballs are still wiggling from one look.