{"id":16097,"date":"2008-12-02T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16097"},"modified":"2014-10-14T11:31:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T15:31:17","slug":"best-book-covers-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/02\/best-book-covers-of-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Best book covers of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nytimesbooks.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Book Design Review<\/i><\/a> has just announced  <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimesbooks.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/my-favorites-of-2008.html\" target=\"_blank\">its favorite book covers of 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was pleased to see that  the cover to the reissue of Harry Harrison&#8217;s <i>Make Room! Make Room!<\/i> was there, because the moment I saw it many months ago, I also decided it was one of the best covers of the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/MakeRoomHarryHarrison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/MakeRoomHarryHarrison.jpg\" alt=\"MakeRoomHarryHarrison\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/MakeRoomHarryHarrison.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/MakeRoomHarryHarrison-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was fascinated to discover the cover to the UK edition of Austin Grossman&#8217;s <i>Soon I Will Be Invincible<\/i>, which I found much more intriguing than that of the U.S. edition.<\/p>\n<p>The site invites you to vote on your favorite from among these finalists, so <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimesbooks.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/my-favorites-of-2008.html\" target=\"_blank\">head on over<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>And while you&#8217;re there, check out the site&#8217;s choices for the best covers of <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimesbooks.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/my-favorite-book-covers-of-2007.html\" target=\"_blank\">2007<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimesbooks.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/my-favorites-of-2006.html\" target=\"_blank\">2006<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimesbooks.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/best-of-year-so-far.html\" target=\"_blank\">2005<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Book Design Review has just announced its favorite book covers of 2008. I was pleased to see that the cover to the reissue of Harry Harrison&#8217;s Make Room! Make Room! was there, because the moment I saw it many months ago, I also decided it was one of the best covers of the year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-16097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-harry-harrison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16099,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16097\/revisions\/16099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}