Dec 14
Click for full imageMisterBOB’s Art Direction: Make the armour shinny… it’s a David Drake book!
Published 1991
(Rating: 7.12 out of 10)
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MisterBOB’s Art Direction: Make the armour shinny… it’s a David Drake book!
Published 1991
(Rating: 7.12 out of 10) Loading ...
December 14th, 2011 at 10:15 am
Do I spy a 3D cover? It’s the future of reading! Or is it actually a pop-up book?
December 14th, 2011 at 10:31 am
I have all kinds of questions, seeing this cover. But the most pressing one is: who won the twist contest?
December 14th, 2011 at 10:58 am
I’m afraid our robots aren’t tought enough to withstand robot-to-robot combat. Better give them shields.
Loving the embossing.
December 14th, 2011 at 10:59 am
TOUGH. I meant TOUGH. Sorry.
December 14th, 2011 at 11:28 am
Snow, Christmas trees, battling contortionist silver robots — it’s what this time of year is all about.
December 14th, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Is one belabouring the other with a red liquorice shoelace?
December 14th, 2011 at 1:43 pm
Simon: You’ve slipped into your Jeeves voice. ‘Is one belabouring one’s enemy with a red liquorice shoelace, sir? It’d not the done thing, I’m afraid.’
December 14th, 2011 at 1:50 pm
And somehow yet another artist with no knowledge of basic anatomy gets work.
December 14th, 2011 at 1:55 pm
If that’s a “laser beam” why is it bent around the edge of the other guys shield?
If it’s a staff of some kind, how is he holding it?
This cover definitely needs the wtf tag
December 14th, 2011 at 2:56 pm
King Arthur: “Who are you?”
Shiny Knight With Broken Anatomy #1: “We are The Knights who say BAEN!”
King Arthur: Not — not The Knights who say Baen!”
Shiny Knight With Broken Anatomy #2: “The same!!”
December 14th, 2011 at 8:02 pm
The premise of Northworld is that there’s these high-tech dimension-traveling sorts with really good power armor who have set themselves up as the Scandinavian gods in a parallel Earth (discovered by a guy named North, hence Northworld). Yes, that’s an energy beam, and it’s supposed to be glancing off the shield, but the angle is so shallow it’s hard to tell.
December 14th, 2011 at 8:40 pm
In other words: Americans get to rule Scandinavia.
A plot premise that didn’t win David Drake a whole lot of Scandinavian readers!
December 14th, 2011 at 8:48 pm
Laser beam, schmaser beam. That’s a highly advanced robo form of the “pull my finger” gag if I ever saw one. And the other robot is juuuuust about to fall for it.
December 15th, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Transformers playing jump rope! Wow.
December 15th, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots
Rode forth from Camelot …
December 15th, 2011 at 5:48 pm
It looks like the two robots were about to shake hands, but then the one on the left pulled his hand away and decided to trip the other robot by sticking his leg out. The one on the left looks like he is trying to squirt some ketchup at the other robot as he’s falling….Silly robot (on left), doesn’t he know that the other’s shield is made of titanium? No amount of ketchup is going to put a dent in that thing. What was he thinking!
December 15th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
I meant the one on the RIGHT pulled his hand away.