May 19
Click for full imageMatt’s Art Direction: Fabric! I want to see lots of fabric. And hands, lots of dramatically posed hands. And least one bare breast, only you’ll have to conceal the nipple with something. How about a cross?
Published 1994
(Average: 7.23 out of 10)
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May 19th, 2011 at 8:49 am
“Scroo-ooge! I am the Ghost of Christmas Baen!”
Ah Baen, Baen, Baen. Don’t ever change!
May 19th, 2011 at 10:02 am
I’m guessing the robin doesn’t last very long with a kestrel about. Unless it’s a can of Kestrel?
May 19th, 2011 at 10:54 am
Do you think they were singing ”dude looks like a lady”
that could even be steven tyler on the right
May 19th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
PHOOOARRRRR… Would you look at that knee!
May 19th, 2011 at 12:51 pm
That city in the background looks like Petra, but that isn’t enough to save this cover. I’m still trying to read the little white letters beneath the author’s name.
May 19th, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Baen, you are SO close to getting sued by the American Midget Society.
May 19th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
“A New Novel in the World of Bardic Voices!”
Now, who can resist salesmanship of that caliber? People must’ve been lining up in the streets to buy a book with that blurb.
May 19th, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Nice pants.
May 19th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
No, don’t shake his hand, you spoony bard!
May 19th, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Then the Pale Spectre of Rhinoplasty appeared and Alphonso’s third and final wish was granted.
May 19th, 2011 at 9:56 pm
Midget: “How do you do Mr. Wraith, my name is…”
Wraith: “GIMME FIVE!!”
May 20th, 2011 at 3:15 am
I don’t see a robin or a kestrel…?
May 20th, 2011 at 5:19 am
What is that brown thing under the title?
May 20th, 2011 at 9:02 am
The robin and the kestrel flew away. And who can blame them!
May 23rd, 2011 at 6:28 pm
O Baen… notoriously atrocious in cover selection….
May 25th, 2011 at 12:07 am
Is the guy on the right about to sing “You’ve got to pick a pocket or two, boys…”
May 29th, 2011 at 11:26 pm
And the monster will be played by… AWW! The title blocked it!
January 6th, 2012 at 9:33 pm
That *is* Petra. Does that make this the Middle East? Good heavens, does that make these people middle easterners?
Errrr, I guess that would explain the electric blue harem pants and the sort of veily thing behind the man’s bright red Renaissance fair cap. Not to mention their, er, stereotyped features.
But nothing explains their huge heads and short legs, their awkward poses, or that eyewateringly brighly colored jester’s outfit, or why the woman’s sleeves are straight out of Snow White. Or why the karate kid is present.
January 28th, 2012 at 4:20 pm
The only thing on the cover that bears the slightest resemblance to the book is the ghostly cowled figure.
There is a female gypsy in the story, but she’s not dressed anything like that. It doesn’t take place in the middle east. I have no idea who the men on the cover might even vaguely be intended to be. And while pseudo-christian religion is a major part of the story it doesn’t use traditional crosses – a chunk of the plot revolves around them making God’s Eyes ( http://crafts.kaboose.com/gods-eyes.html ) which are very clearly described!
(‘Robin’ and ‘Kestrel’ are the stage-names of two characters, not actual birds.)
January 29th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
I am coming to the uneasy conclusion that this cover artist, Darrell K. Sweet, never, ever, ever shows women alone on the cover. Ever. Even if they’re the main characters (http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/01/to-ride-pegasus/ ). Even if there’s no explanation for the guy’s presence (http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/02/the-one-tree/ ).
He frequently shows men alone, but I haven’t yet found an example of his cover art which shows a woman without a man present.
NB: On Piers Anthony’s “Dragon on a Pedestal” there’s an adorable little toddler girl and a dragon. Not sure I’d count that one.