Jun 07
Click for full imageDon Comments: May the blessings of Saint Rubik be upon you.
John Melo for Baen Books, 1988
Heinlein Mondays? Might have to be.
Many thanks to Don!
(Rating: 5.90 out of 10)
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Don Comments: May the blessings of Saint Rubik be upon you.
John Melo for Baen Books, 1988
Heinlein Mondays? Might have to be.
Many thanks to Don!
(Rating: 5.90 out of 10) Loading ...
June 7th, 2010 at 9:22 am
I’m not sure this is that bad.
Though that font is pretty special and I always love it when they feel the need to inform me it’s a novel rather than, say, a work of journalism.
June 7th, 2010 at 9:40 am
For the usual Baen covers we get on here I agree it isn’t that bad.
But if you were reading this is public people would defiantly give you a second, ‘what the’ look!
The man also looks like he has a jaundice problem.
June 7th, 2010 at 11:17 am
To me it looks like George Lucas is taking the Jedi thing a bit too far. At this rate, his self-delusion will soon be such that he thinks making a trilogy of Star Wars prequels is a good idea. Oh wait…
June 7th, 2010 at 11:50 am
Artist: I put him in a robe, I made his face old and wizened. I gave him a staff… what more could I do to make him look like a monk?
Editor: HALO!
June 7th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
I’m glad they specified “A Novel” on the cover…here I thought it might be a biography.
June 7th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
I like the way that they’ve made BAEN BOOKS + serial number and price look like a hammer.
June 7th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
And I like the way they’ve made the ‘L’ in ‘HEINLEIN’ into a backward tick. It’s like a bizarro-world tick! An anti-tick! It expresses not teacherly approval, but rather the complete opposite!
June 7th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Notice the the logo of Baen Books, the ISBN and the price combine to appear like a staff? (right side of cover)
June 7th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
“I am… the Space Moses!”
June 7th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
Oh, St. Rubik! I marvel at your cube…and also the novels that reveal its secrets, one column at a time, but hey, I thought there were only 3 columns!
June 7th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
but this one ISN’t that bad – not only is it not as crazy terrible as others, the cover is ACTUALLY related and RELEVANT to the story contained within this “novel”
June 8th, 2010 at 3:58 am
I think the “L” in “Heinlein” has panache. Pizazz, even!
June 8th, 2010 at 4:27 am
The scary part is that every element on the cover (with the exception of an unfortunate choice of fonts) is in the story…
June 9th, 2010 at 2:56 am
@Morgan C (& SI): This is actually why I submitted it. What works in the theater of the mind sometimes looks downright goofy when converted to actual art. (And, of course, having some painful logo design slapped on top of it doesn’t help.)
John Melo did all the covers for Baen’s Heinlein pulp reprints, and this one is above average. (There’s at least one other that’s worthy of submission to Good Show Sir! that I’d forgotten about; if Heinlein Mondays is going to be for real, it’s going to be a while before we run out of material!)
December 16th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Artist: “So what do want me to do for the cover?”
Editor: “Just put in some cool stuff from the book.”
Artist: “OK… any particular characters?”
Editor: “Yes. We’ve discovered that there’s a Heinlein cult, so paint a Saint Heinlein with a halo on the cover. Fans will go ape!”