SF Signal: Shiver Me Timbers!

Shiver Me Timbers!

I was walking past a books shelf in a supermarket this weekend and saw this atrocity. It's a reissue of Asimov's I, Robot featuring the movie poster with Will Smith. Now, I know that movie adaptations are different than the originating book (by necessity what with it being a different medium), but Yikes! It still sent shivers up my spine.

ADDENDUM: Check out the Reader's Guide to I, Robot.

Looks like its the original text with an updated cover. What is it that they say:

Don't judge a book by its cover -- especially if it has Wil Smith on it.

If nothing else, it might attract people to read a novel that they would not otherwise touch.

Posted by Pete on Monday June 07, 2004 at 11:10 AM

Another question for the reader's guide:

What, if anything, does Will Smith's movie have to do with I, Robot? Aside from the name that is.

Correct answers receive double bonus points, or cookies.

Posted by jp on Monday June 07, 2004 at 1:21 PM

They both have robots in it? I am sure they both have a robot of some kind...

Posted by Tim on Monday June 07, 2004 at 2:08 PM

as in the robotic-like acting epitomized by Wil Smith? or the robotic response of the general masses to flock to his films?

Posted by Pete on Monday June 07, 2004 at 6:12 PM