Apr 17
Click for full imageTom Noir’s Art Direction:
“Scotty, we need more clip-art!”
“She can’t take much more captain! We push her any harder and we risk a font overload!”
“Dammit, just do it man!”
Published 1999
(Average: 9.02 out of 10)
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Tom Noir’s Art Direction:
“Scotty, we need more clip-art!”
“She can’t take much more captain! We push her any harder and we risk a font overload!”
“Dammit, just do it man!”
Published 1999
(Average: 9.02 out of 10) Loading ...
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April 17th, 2012 at 11:25 am
‘If you’re going to parody the Sistine Chapel ceiling, don’t clog it with phallic space ships.’ Shouldn’t it be a design school rule that they teach you on the first day?
April 17th, 2012 at 11:56 am
Michelangelo, move under.
April 17th, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Ah, I remember the early days of desktop publishing and colour inkjets, when you just HAD to use every font and every colour on every single flyer you created.
April 17th, 2012 at 12:55 pm
“What are you thinking about right now, James P. Hogan?”
“Oh, you know. Spaceships. Other planets. Monkeys. Flying monkeys. Robotic flying monkeys. Robotic flying monkeys holding up the Master Chief from Halo while he touches the finger of a regular monkey, like in that Michelangelo painting of God and Adam. Just stuff like that. What were YOU thinking about?”
“I’m thinking I just remembered I have somewhere else to be…”
April 17th, 2012 at 1:13 pm
If he was going with the Halo motif, a Covenant alien would’ve been better than a monkey. And that dude’s face is going to haunt me all day.
April 17th, 2012 at 2:54 pm
The credibility of the promised authorial vision is somewhat torpedoed by the less-than-grand design of the cover…
…it’s as if a five-year-old with a crayon was told to write “SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE” on the front page.
April 17th, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Clarke: Izaac Asimov, let’s see if this used bookstore has more of your books on the shelf, or more of mine.
Asimov: Arthur Clarke, move over… to the H’s and take a look at that cover!
Clarke: Good show, sir!
April 17th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Makes me curious about the cover to his previous book, Rockets, Redheads & Revolution…
To the Googles!
http://bonanzleimages.s3.amazonaws.com/afu/images/0491/7704/ard_001.jpg
April 17th, 2012 at 5:00 pm
RoboHovah: ‘Bugger! I forgot to earth the ape!’
April 17th, 2012 at 10:46 pm
Rockets, Redheads and Revolution could be a Heinlein novel.
April 18th, 2012 at 3:04 am
Where are the rivets in MACHINES? This cover deserves rivets and a DNA helix.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:51 am
The dude is actually the ‘dean of hard SF’, James P. Hogan himself. He did a third one, CATASTROPHES, CHAOS & CONVOLUTIONS.
http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/f/fd/CTSTRPHSCH2005.jpg
Notice how they use only 2 fonts here? Must have been a bad day at Baen.
April 21st, 2012 at 4:11 am
Am I the only one who thought that that was Walter Koenig’s face? Seriously, I’m convinced it’s either going to ask me where the nuclear wessels are or go “Be seeing you!”
April 24th, 2012 at 1:02 am
“Arthur Clarke, move over twerp! Me and Hogan got this sci-fi game covered now!” – Isaac Asimov
June 21st, 2012 at 11:46 pm
Is that Newt Gingrich?
Is this what his moon colony would look like?
June 22nd, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Yes.