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I've been in the habit of picking paperbacks off the library sci-fi shelves more or less at random, recently; I figure, it's free to try, and anything that's awful I can just put down and take back the next week. The one thing I am finding, though, is that back cover copy is a terrible thing to judge a book by. Nearly every book I look at has

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Book Blub Horrors

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Lo these many years ago, when I was a regular attendee at LASFS - http://www.lasfs.org - a book was offered up for auction. You see, one of the ways that LASFS funds itself is through auctions of books, movie props, geeky ephemera.

Anyway...

A book, 'The Centauri Device', was offered up for auction. There were no bidders, until the auctioneer read the blurb from the back.

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3379128

I believe it went for $10.

I swear upon all that is holy and unholy, that this is true.

Sorry for the necro-commenting.