Apr 14
Click for full imageJen’s Art Direction: A book about telepaths, you say? You’re blowing my mind. In fact, that’s just what we need on the cover! A man with his head exploding! And if that doesn’t just scream sci-fi, we’ll put him in coveralls and put after-images of him all over the place. Oh, and emboss it. All of it. I want everything to stand out.
Thanks so much to Jen!
(Average: 7.70 out of 10)
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April 14th, 2010 at 11:12 am
Ah, Baen, Baen, Baen. Where would we be without you?
It looks like Timothy Zahn himself hated this cover so much he tried to rip his own name off it.
April 14th, 2010 at 11:42 am
I can’t figure out what the title of this book is. Is it ‘Distant Friends’ or ‘Distant Friends and others’?
I think that guy needs a paracetamol!
April 14th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Personally I consider this whole shining neon spiralling hairstyle thing very eighties.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
There are covers of Tera Patrick films with more subtlety.
April 14th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
It’s actually a book about someone who suffers from devastating migraines and the terrible effect this has on his social life. The visual metaphor for pain and visual distortion is nicely done. I think all the embossing is meant to represent a halo.
(I have never heard of this book before but I used my telepathic powers to read Jen’s mind. And now I have a headache.)
April 14th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Not migraines induced from reading Timothy Zahn’s prose?
April 15th, 2010 at 12:28 am
Timothy Zahn first star wars books were amongst the first sci-fi books i read, they were pretty tough to get through to be honest, the book heir to the emipre mentioned in the blurb was the worst out of them all, but i really enjoyed his Conquerors’ Trilogy (not star wars), might even read them again, but it’s been like 10-15 years since i read them…
I wouldnt have read them if they had covers as bad as that one though. It goes without saying that the star wars ones were pretty awful covers too.
I think the most impressive thing about this cover is that the BAEN logo could be accused of be subtle.
April 22nd, 2010 at 6:20 am
OVERALLS?!?!!??
That is a mad scientist outfit. He is/was experimenting with mind control and something terrible will/has happen/happened… maybe at the same time!!! Or maybe not!!!?!?!??
April 22nd, 2010 at 6:22 am
I wish I had a distant friend….. ;-[
December 16th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
He’s thinking so hard his brain is literally melting:
“Where did I put those #%&* keys??”
December 19th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
“Fools! You dare to crack open the skull of me, Lava-Man?? Now you shall DIE!!”
April 28th, 2014 at 8:58 pm
‘We’ve analysed the marbled shoggoths flitting around your head, sir, and there is a danger. Should I have your circumflex on the letter D standing by?’
‘Replicate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!’