Judging by the pose of the chap next to the dragon-eye-creature-thing this is clearly a shot from some future clothing catalogue.
‘This stylish, easy iron, jumpsuit looks good anywhere and can provide protection for the wearer from the dangers encountered in many alien environments*.
The cover artist seems like he was told that his cover looked too much like Anne McCaffery’s covers. So he goes back to the drawing board, and after finishing he exclaims: Let’s see Anne top this!
“This had better be good, human! If thou art wasting my time your suffering will be exquisite. All right, I’m watching. Yes, two girls. I have seen many females in my long life, mortal! What is so special about them and their cup? Wait. Are they…. Gah.”
This is actually a fairly accurate cover. The creature pictured is a Venusian ‘dragon’, who as described has 6 legs and “swiveled one fluttering eyestalk” toward the hero of the story when they meet. It doesn’t have the neck tendrils described in the book however. This juvenile novel was written over 60 years ago, and in many ways shows its age (we now know Venus is not a cloud covered jungle planet, for example) but I recently reread this after many years and Heinlein is still quite readable.
If one is going to make comments on book coves one should at least read the book to see if it is accurate.
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August 25th, 2011 at 10:41 am
Judging by the pose of the chap next to the dragon-eye-creature-thing this is clearly a shot from some future clothing catalogue.
‘This stylish, easy iron, jumpsuit looks good anywhere and can provide protection for the wearer from the dangers encountered in many alien environments*.
*May not protect wearer from danger pictured.
August 25th, 2011 at 10:47 am
“so let’s get this straight… you say your Grandfather was named Jar Jar?”
August 25th, 2011 at 11:24 am
Stephen King taking another opportunity to jump on a better writers bandwagon…..
August 25th, 2011 at 11:44 am
Between opticians, more like.
August 25th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
If that isn’t the most adorable thing. I hope it eats the human.
August 25th, 2011 at 1:13 pm
“Ro-bert… A… Hein-lein? Never heard of… Hey wait — OHMYGOD!! IT’S GOT AN AFTERWORD BY TRAVIS S. TAYLOR, Ph.D!!! Gimme that book!”
August 25th, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Look forward to other great annotated classics from Baen:
I, ROBOT
- Afterword by Henry P. Dinkelstein, Ph.Phys.!
THE TIME MACHINE
- With footnotes by Vera F. Olson, Ph.Lit.!
TAU ZERO
- Preface by Boris Blank, Ph.Mus.!
August 25th, 2011 at 1:37 pm
I don’t know about you guys but I never read any afterwords from someone without a Ph.D!
Travis does get an epic orange star!
August 25th, 2011 at 3:11 pm
This is Heinlein’s little-known crossover with Monty Python…
http://www.fanpop.com/spots/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail/images/591642/title/black-beast-aaauugh-screencap
August 25th, 2011 at 6:49 pm
When dragons don’t have wings the evolutionary compensation thing gets a little out of hand.
August 25th, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Not only excessive eye quantity, but – look closely – too many dragonic forelimbs.
The title doesn’t appeal. “Between Planets”… that’s just empty space and the occasional speck of space dust, isn’t it?
As for Travis S. Taylor PhD: I wonder if he might be related to Travis S. “Doc” Taylor, whose website looks, uh, interesting:
http://www.doctravis.com/
August 26th, 2011 at 7:32 am
The critter looks to have just received some terrible news.
“Glaucoma?!”
September 2nd, 2011 at 8:14 pm
The cover artist seems like he was told that his cover looked too much like Anne McCaffery’s covers. So he goes back to the drawing board, and after finishing he exclaims: Let’s see Anne top this!
September 5th, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Ehh, standard Baen fare — i.e. crud////
September 10th, 2011 at 6:39 am
“This had better be good, human! If thou art wasting my time your suffering will be exquisite. All right, I’m watching. Yes, two girls. I have seen many females in my long life, mortal! What is so special about them and their cup? Wait. Are they…. Gah.”
“LOL. Pwned, n00b.”
October 1st, 2011 at 3:43 pm
This is actually a fairly accurate cover. The creature pictured is a Venusian ‘dragon’, who as described has 6 legs and “swiveled one fluttering eyestalk” toward the hero of the story when they meet. It doesn’t have the neck tendrils described in the book however. This juvenile novel was written over 60 years ago, and in many ways shows its age (we now know Venus is not a cloud covered jungle planet, for example) but I recently reread this after many years and Heinlein is still quite readable.
If one is going to make comments on book coves one should at least read the book to see if it is accurate.
October 2nd, 2011 at 3:24 am
Mm, yes, but it looks like a muppet.
Mind you, I adore the muppets. But … I think the art direction might have gone better if it were a little less ridiculous.
October 2nd, 2011 at 5:50 pm
I like it. Not my favorite Eggleton (of whom I’m a huge fan). But still pretty good.