A Steroid Hit the Earth: A Celebration of Misprints, Typos and Other Howlers / Martin Toseland

A Steroid Hit the Earth is a catalogue of errors, omissions, mistakes, and other disasters, ranging from the straight typo or the ambiguous statement to the downright bizarre. Each demonstrates a sub-editor or proofreader taking their eye off the ball, preserving the humble misprint as a perpetual source of "schadenfreude." From the holy typo of 1631, when Barker and Lucas' Wicked Bible exhorted people to commit adultery by omitting a crucial "not" from the seventh commandment, A Steroid Hit the Earth reaches back in time to the days before modern printing and our own spell-check obsessed age. It is a joyous and irreverent paean to gaffes of all sorts that have caused confusion, consternation, and outright offence among readers. It will be proof-read six times before publication.