Feb 03
Click for full imageThere is one thing we should be about, fonts! Lots of them. Vast and glorious as they confuse your mind. Then we’ll just have something completely unoriginal on the cover. Something like, oh I don’t know, some marines firing their weapons at an tribal people who live in the trees. Sounds like a crap B movie eh? Ah ha ha ha ha.
(Rating: 6.86 out of 10)
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February 3rd, 2010 at 10:51 am
I do believe the actual cover isn’t that bad. Without the fonts and colour choices I really don’t think this would be that, frightening.
February 3rd, 2010 at 10:56 am
‘Starfist.’ That’ll bring tears to your eyes.
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:22 am
It’s the 25th century but the marines are still looking for a few good men so that they can give them some uniforms, weapons and comms gear from the museum of 21st century warfare.
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:25 am
Simon: for all we know, civilisation has collapsed back into the stone age and dragged itself back up the 21st-century levels in the intervening period.
Book seven>/i>. god love us.
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:43 am
I really wish I could believe that was the underpinning for this particular series . . .
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:02 pm
And how do you know they aren’t firing some sort of advanced bullet. That teleports into your spine or lungs. Ohhhh…..
This is book number 7, written in 2002. There’s more… oh there is more.
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:04 pm
I quite like the jaggedy “Starfist” font. Puts me in mind of a 70s Marvel comic. But then so many things do.
Have you thought that the camouflage cream on the guy’s face might be a 25th century innovation? Using genetic engineering and resequenced chameleon DNA to create environment-matching skin patterns. And maybe the gun is, like, made of keratin and extruded from his own body. Come on, we have to try here.
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:40 pm
Yea as hard as we might, we’re still not going to justify the police issue riot helmet… unless it was made out of the hard to mine, stronganium.
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Am i the only person who thinks the tag line makes the novel sound like a homo-erotic SF?
Not to mention the book is called “starfist”… i mean… seriously…
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:18 pm
CSA ~ I thought it was just me who followed that particular train of thought…
February 3rd, 2010 at 9:45 pm
The cover isn’t terrible. It’s not good, either. But “StarFIST”? Will there be star-fisting? Although the erotic fanfiction equivalent of said work is probably better written.
February 4th, 2010 at 9:16 am
I try to keep my mind out of the gutter, but that guy has a mind of his own and sometime the gutter is just the place to be.
@Karl The series actually gets very good reviews on Amazon, and as a Warhammer 40k fan, StarFIST might just be right up your alley
May 29th, 2010 at 7:35 am
Is this book actually called “Starfist”? Or is it just Book VII in the Starfist Series?
Oh, I know you think it’s in the Kingdom Swords Series, but look at where that “Book VII” is. Nested comfortably under “Starfist” and nowhere near “Kingdom of Swords.” Definitely the 7th Starfist so far. Hey, Starfist must be popular with a certain… demographic.
And “Kingdom Swords?” Why it’s a series of series!