Mar 15
Click for full imageRachel R Comments: We apologize, ladies and gentlemen, but due to pilot fatigue we will be rerouting from our original destination Planet Professionalism to make a stop at the Space Station of Sleazy Symbolism.
Published 2005
(Average: 8.39 out of 10)
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March 15th, 2013 at 9:55 am
It’s the Platonic Form of the Baen cover: eye-wearying, tacky, shouty, incomprehensible.
March 15th, 2013 at 10:19 am
But it does have some un-sheeped devil’s dumplings. C.S. Lewis will be turning in his grave.
March 15th, 2013 at 10:31 am
The space shepherd has been notified. We now have T-3 hours until Clive Staples completes a 360° graveyard rotation and initiates the corpse reanimation process.
March 15th, 2013 at 10:36 am
Bottom right corner: what can be on her shoulder that fascinates the man in the tinfoil cycle-jacket more than a giant, pimped-up baby-rattle approaching the window at high velocity does?
March 15th, 2013 at 11:37 am
@Tat Wood: Usually that would be a treecat in Weber’s books, but unless it’s an invisible treekitten, there’s no room for one there…
March 15th, 2013 at 12:11 pm
That’s no moon that’s… wait… does she have three breasts?
March 15th, 2013 at 12:35 pm
Apparently sinful: money, poison, STOP signs, and the Whore of Babylon. Or it’s just Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon 6 on a layover. *ahem*
March 15th, 2013 at 12:41 pm
I like how they felt that Symbolic Space Vegas wasn’t a BUSY enough cover so they made sure to frame it with people watching it through a spaceship window.
Is this recycled from somewhere, a-la that Miles Vorkosigan cover?
March 15th, 2013 at 12:49 pm
Oh me, oh my! Baen, Eric Flint, slaves, explosions! Winner winner chicken dinner! Yesssss….
March 15th, 2013 at 1:51 pm
Wow, this one was like a stress test of the tagging system. I think it performed quite well. Good show, Good Show Sir.
March 15th, 2013 at 2:22 pm
It’s an amusement park space station. I forget if it was introduced in Crown of Slaves or didn’t show until the next book in the series, but it’s an actual thing in the story, not just symbolism.
You know, like just about every other Baen cover people assume is bizarre symbolism but depicts actual events.
March 15th, 2013 at 2:39 pm
I’m thinking a giant space station with only one marked exit reflects a serious lack of planning.
March 15th, 2013 at 5:30 pm
@Dave: So the station has an ACTUAL giant nude statue draped over half of it?!?
March 15th, 2013 at 5:34 pm
If that’s your new Orac, you can forget the whole Blake’s 7 reboot right now.
March 15th, 2013 at 5:45 pm
On the right side of the picture, you can see that a ship is berthing itself between a woman’s open lips.
Which means that on the upper left side of the picture…
March 15th, 2013 at 7:46 pm
I concur with PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY. This is one of a best books I’ve -
No, this is one of the “a best books” I’ve –
Let’s see… This is the best of a book I -
Oh, I just don’t care for this book any more.
March 15th, 2013 at 9:03 pm
If the Deathstar had looked like this, those cheesy rebels could never had blown it up. Good luck spotting a 2m exhaust port on that thing.
March 15th, 2013 at 11:02 pm
Whoa. That was like a baseball bat to the eyes. We should post no other covers until we have photographed all the Eric Flint Baen paperbacks.
March 16th, 2013 at 4:59 am
Dead Stuff . . .—but before that rocket exits, it must first pierce through the pulsing neon heart of the word “sin,” located pretty much dead center. This is known as nuance.
March 16th, 2013 at 12:40 pm
It’s the little things that really bring this cover together…like how the Booklist quote “Breathless pacing and larger-than-life characters!” is situated right next to the giant writhing woman.
March 17th, 2013 at 11:04 am
@Bibliomancer: on it!
March 17th, 2013 at 7:33 pm
In the age of online gambling — you know, casinos without a fixed physical location — a giant Las Vegas in orbit seems like a non-profit venture…
March 17th, 2013 at 10:45 pm
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March 18th, 2013 at 7:09 pm
So this is what happened to Unicron after his defeat at the hands of the Autobots…He really has fallen on hard times.
March 19th, 2013 at 12:01 am
“Wow, that virus we used on the Borg certainly had some unforseen side effects.”
March 23rd, 2013 at 3:54 pm
Anti-Septic: That made me Lol. Unicron had to get a gig in the industry apparently.
March 30th, 2013 at 8:25 am
I like the fact that there are little screens at the bottom, where people are watching what’s going on at the space… Clown of Shaves? Missed chance to use the good ol’ cover within the cover within the cover trick, though. It would be quite a challenge with this cover.
The chandeliers on the ceiling of the spaceship/station are a nice touch as well. I wonder if they use actual candles.
April 5th, 2013 at 7:23 am
Subtlety is to Baen Books like shaving is to Kim-Jong Un’s chin: hasn’t happened yet.