Jan 20
Click for full imageYou know what all guns should have? Large magazine, maybe. Insanely large silencer on the end, possibly. A leather clad busty blonde, you’re almost there. Nope? All guns should have a guitar hero controller. When wouldn’t you want to stop fighting and starpower some AC/DC?!
(Average: 7.89 out of 10)
Loading...
Lastest Tweet
January 20th, 2010 at 11:30 am
I wouldnt take that on a train, and not because its a cheesy cover (but it would be a contributing factor) but just for the consideration of other passangers and the continued enjoyment of having eyesight… “holy ridiculous cover Batman, thats shiny!”
I also note that once again, only her shoulders are armoured… that’ll protect her…
January 20th, 2010 at 11:39 am
Now now, her belt looks pretty heavily fortified too!
January 20th, 2010 at 11:40 am
Chicks with guns f*** yeah!!
🙂
January 20th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
Note to publisher: having a female co-author does not make this amount of cleavage acceptable.
And why does she have the exhaust from a 1985 Ford Fiesta stuck on the end of her plastic M16?
January 20th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Ah, a novelty rifle-shaped hair drier! The perfect gift for a lady!
January 20th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
It could just be a thing to keep her pack-lunch in. It’s a gun and can hold a chicken and bacon sub. Who wouldn’t want it.
January 20th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Hah. That’s nothing. for reasons entirely incomprehensible to me, my edition of Frank Herbert’s so-so _The Jesus Incident_ had a completely naked woman on the front in a vaguely Christ-like pose (threatened by creatures looking like a cross between a pterodactyl and a skull: a shame that the only flying creatures on Pandora were also the only things around that *weren’t* lethal, oops). Here (very much NSFW).
January 21st, 2010 at 10:00 am
Nix… awesome cover… its both vaguely sacrilegious and has a naked chick, meets with my approval. But if only she had shoulderpads and a novelty gun aswell….
(btw i had to click even though you said NSFW, was worth the risk)
January 21st, 2010 at 10:57 am
Hahah excellent cover Nix. Wonder if the Jesus Incident has a similar story to the cover posted today, Behold the Man.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:21 pm
I’m sure Freud would have something to say about the size of that gun.
Mind you, with breasts like those, you’d think she wouldn’t have any compensation issues.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:28 pm
They’re fake.
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:16 am
SI: No, it’s a sequel to _Destination: Void_, sharing one and a half characters in name but not in personality. Lunatic starship decides to use pet expendable humans to colonize planet populated entirely by monsters to teach them something obscure about the nature of free will or something which Herbert obviously thinks is very important but never actually says.
_Behold the Man_ is a seriously excellent story; the sort of story that blasphemy laws were invented to stop, the most specifically anti-Christian story I can recall: give it to your pet fundie with a boring cover on it and watch his head burst.
March 28th, 2010 at 5:22 am
I think that the huge boobage might actually part of the plot – the character was born and grew up athletic and with modest breasts. As part of a covert operations gone wrong, she was stuck in a disguise body and unable to regain her original one. Throughout this and subsequent novels, she constantly complains about the ridiculous breasts and how awkward, uncomfortable, and performance* limiting they were.
*professional assassination
March 28th, 2010 at 5:23 am
CSA: well, they’re “fake” but someone else’s “real.”
April 30th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
And this here is one of the big advantages of buying the eBook edition. I got to see the cover art WITHOUT the massive shiny.
May 3rd, 2010 at 7:34 am
And here it is with all the details that somehow didn’t make it on the cover:
http://www.clydecaldwell.com/large_images/sister_time.html
The Continuing Adventures of the Girl with the Guitar Hero Gun:
http://www.clydecaldwell.com/large_images/callys_war.html
May 3rd, 2010 at 7:39 am
Oh, and here’s an unpublished version:
http://www.clydecaldwell.com/large_images/callys_war_drawing.html
So, a normal gun butt was rejected by publisher?
May 3rd, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Wow nice work Ilya Chentsov. : ) I admire the artists skill even if he is constrained by either popular taste or the publisher. Personally I don’t mind a bit of cleavage but as an artist he obviously knew nothing about guns. On the same token maybe it isn’t a projectile weadon at all but actually some other variety of futuristic weapon with just a passing resembalnce to the M-16 with a guitar hero keypad.
September 1st, 2013 at 5:20 pm
@Ilya: well that kills my theory! I had thought that shiny works both ways on covers, and she needed her sunglasses to protect her own vision.
Her lips are very pursed. Is she trying to kiss the majestic wind carrying her tresses aloft? Or is she whistling? Or is it, perchance, completely unnecessary?
When I was small, we had Hammer Time. Does Sister Time involve tighter trousers? I’m led to believe so. I wonder why.
August 25th, 2015 at 5:14 am
@simon: Maybe it’s supposed to be a comically huge suppressor.
She’s going to fall out of her shirt if she does anything. She looks more like a posing model than someone who fights a lot.
August 27th, 2021 at 9:49 am
I’d hate to see Brother Time.
August 27th, 2021 at 12:02 pm
It’s good to be Sybil Danning. It’s better being able to see Sybil Danning being Sybil Danning.
August 27th, 2021 at 2:01 pm
She looks like every third extra in a 1980s post-apocalypse flick.
August 27th, 2021 at 5:13 pm
It’s a running gag in that series that Cally was biosculpted in disguise (to replace someone who was Like That) and then had a falling out with the people who controlled the biosculpt systems, so she was “stuck” in that body for the entire series.
Never said it was a good or funny gag.
August 27th, 2021 at 6:28 pm
Between the gun and the hair it’s clear she’s into bangs.
August 27th, 2021 at 10:54 pm
OH JOHN RINGO NO.
I “love” the explanation he came up with to justify having a busty bimbo on the cover and have her referring to her enormous knockers in the text.
@Tor: I can almost hear the 1980’s hair metal soundtrack when I look at this. Heavy rotation on MTV.
August 27th, 2021 at 11:40 pm
So Sister and Brother Time would be Father Time’s kids? Wouldn’t have thought the old guy had it in him.
@DVD: And then there’s the alternate universe where she had to replace someone morbidly obese.
August 29th, 2021 at 3:47 am
So who was their mother?
August 29th, 2021 at 10:11 am
That’s not a silencer, that’s a loudener – as demonstrated in the TV series “Sledge Hammer”:
https://youtu.be/-WKM9GDuX0Y
August 29th, 2021 at 11:30 pm
@AR Yngve: ah, Sledge Hammer. Still remember it, [1] or at least the opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGYKU7mbv74
Sledge Hammer would certainly fit well into many of Baen’s fictional universes.
The cover does have that 1980s B movie energy, as @fred also pointed out.
@GSS ex-noob: Mother Nature? One of the Three Fates? Nike, the personification of Victory? There are a fair number of female anthropomorphic personifications out there, and most of them probably are at least a bit disappointed in her life choices.
[1] I’d make a comment about “way back when violent, trigger-happy cops was still a subject for comedy”, but frankly “comedic” police violence only went out of style very recently, if at all
August 30th, 2021 at 12:18 am
We’re all in agreement that this cover has Maximum 80s Vibes, yet ISFDB says it was published in 2007!
Insert your own throwback/behind the times/reactionary snark here.
@Bruce: I don’t see Mother Nature going in for this sort of thing; let’s go with Nike. Or her Roman counterpart, Victoria. Because this cover also has Victoria’s Secret.
@ARY: Good link!
I liked “Sledge Hammer!” at the time, but agree it wouldn’t hold up nowadays. Still, you’ve got to admire how they handled unexpectedly getting a second season after how they ended the first.
August 30th, 2021 at 2:09 am
@GSS ex-noob: yeah, although it made watching the second season a bit weird, knowing beforehand their inevitable fate. 😉
August 31st, 2021 at 5:22 am
It beat “it was all a dream”/someone in the shower, though.