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Click for full imageBaen Books – Putting all other cover choices to shame since 1983.
Published 2008
(Rating: 9.42 out of 10)
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Baen Books – Putting all other cover choices to shame since 1983.
Published 2008
(Rating: 9.42 out of 10) Loading ...
September 3rd, 2010 at 10:15 am
There’s seriously not enough tags for this cover!
September 3rd, 2010 at 11:22 am
Glorious… simply glorious…
September 3rd, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Imagine if you were an astronaut exploring the uncharted reaches of space in your capsule and you saw this.
You would freak the hell out.
September 3rd, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Excellent.
This is the champion of that class of covers which celebrates and revels in their own ridiculousness.
Too bad Jim isn’t winking at us.
September 3rd, 2010 at 4:03 pm
@Evad–look at his left eye. Either he’s trying to, or he’s wincing in pain at Eris’s departure from his underarm.
September 3rd, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Addendum–it’s possible to think of Jim Baen’s Universe #2 without humming Pérez Prado’s Mambo #5, but not easy. In fact, the latter is appropriate background music for the former, you’ll agree.
September 3rd, 2010 at 4:47 pm
It is the ur-baen cover. Someday archeologists will look at this and nod in understanding.
September 4th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
I’m afraid that while this would be incredible by the standards of any *other* publisher, it just doesn’t measure up. Compare this to the cluttered glory of the first _Jim Baen’s Universe_ cover. Ths one has no crap in the background at all!
September 4th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
@Nix, I couldn’t find it.
However, I did find volume 4, issue 6, where the universe goes down the drain..
September 4th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
Eyebane.
September 6th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Actually, I think this’d look pretty reasonable and fun if it weren’t for the text at the top.
September 8th, 2010 at 8:04 am
Without the text at the top it would be a Moses pose..
September 14th, 2010 at 12:49 am
The professor guy has the tail of a skinny Jabba the Hutt. With a truly *~fabulous*~ colour scheme.
December 16th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
I can’t believe how modest he looks on this cover.
The question arises: Was the art slapped together, or made according to detailed editorial instructions?
December 16th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
With the way he’s popped out of a… galaxy? wormhole? erm… anyway, with that and the electric zaps that look like a spine …
Is anyone else thinking “KFC’s Colonel meets Borg Queen”? Maybe it’s just me.
December 17th, 2010 at 9:53 am
It’s not just you.
“BOW DOWN BEFORE MY CRISPY CHICKEN!! SUBMIT TO IT!!”