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Click for full imageWorld gets destroyed by large alien disco balls firing lasers. Lasers that create nuclear explosions. Then we’ll have some women in a tight shirt, unbuttoned just enough to tease our readers. And like every other cover out there, she’ll be completely ignoring the fact that there is a mammoth nuclear explosion going off in the background. Women, eh?
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December 4th, 2009 at 4:58 am
The perspective is a little confusing, they really do look like disco balls. The beams coming from the one on the left are going to either side of the explosion, so either the disco ball is mega big or the explosion is mega small. It could just be because everything is in full focus, but it also somehow looks like the ball on the left is like right beside the chick getting a radiation tan.
It looks pretty cheesy in general, but it is a Baen cover.
And i know Weber is a very popular scifi/fantasy author (moreso in the states than UK i imagine), but does having a blurb “Marvelous” from him not really lose its meaning after you see it on 100+ books.
December 4th, 2009 at 7:06 am
I’d say When The Devil Dances is marginally better than Ringo’s first-choice title, Oh Dear, My Action-Heroine Has Rickets!
December 4th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Well I think the Ringo and the Webber are possibly friends. They do plenty of books together.
It isn’t quite as overpowering as over covers they/he has done. But it certainly has plenty of stuff going on there.
December 4th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
It’s a Baen book – nuff said.
If ever proof were needed of the UK and the US being two cultures divided by a common cover aesthetic (as I believe Churchill would almost certainly have said if he’d been in publishing rather than politics) you would only need to look at a Bean book.
The type! It burns! It burns!
The particular brand of hyper ‘realistic’ (yet hyper coloured and oddly peopled) artwork. It burns as well! It burns as well!
December 4th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
She’s obviously an evil genius; the disco balls are under her command, and they’re doing this so we can *get a good photo*.
Baen normally put Good Guys on their covers. I think this is misdirection. I mean, look how, ahem, *healthy* she looks: look how well coiffed she is and how clean her clothes are and how gleamy and high-tech her weapons. Then look at the surroundings. This is not an insurgent who’s been living in *that* postapocalyptic hell. No, no, this is an invader!
The title is a clue, too, in hindsight: Hell hath no fury…
December 6th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Excellent insight Nix. You’re right she does have the look of the devil around her. Who would go into a batttle wearing that top. As usual, not much support.