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Mar 12

 purple prince stabbing at some green guy, oh and make sure there is someone with at least four arms

Art direction: The question is, what shouldn’t we have on the cover? Have a purple prince stabbing at a furry green wolfman with a couple of guys watching in the background.. one of them has to have four arms.

Actually, that cover IS a classical work of art!I would touch it without protective gloves.I've seen worse. Far, far, worse.Interesting, but I would still read it in public.Middlng: Neither awful nor awfully goodWould not like to be seen reading that!Awful... just awful...That belongs in a gold-lame picture frame!Gah... my eyes are burning! Feels so good!Good Show Sir! (Average: 8.39 out of 10)
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17 Responses to “We Few…. Weber!”

  1. CSA Says:

    nice, there’s just so much going on in this picture my eyes can’t seem to focus on any one particular aspect of its terribleness (awesomeness)… i would NOT read that beast on a train

  2. Sorcha Says:

    That looks like a heck of a rave party.

  3. JustAGuy Says:

    Amusingly, this is the least representative scene in the novel. It is a novel about covert infiltration, leading to a ground, air and space battle with futuristic technology (since it happens in the future).

    The cover should obviously have what looks like a medieval fight between a werewolf and a prince.

  4. Nix Says:

    By Baen standards, this *is* covert.

  5. SI Says:

    It’s a brilliant cover. Unfortunately not the best picture of it. I love the Pink Princes expression on his face, almost like he isn’t quite sure what the heck he is trying to kill. But might as well give it a go anyway.

  6. A.R.Yngve Says:

    Cover later recycled for John McCain’s pamphlet “This Is What Our Military Will Look Like If We Allow Gays To Serve Openly.”

  7. Tom Noir Says:

    I just noticed that the title of this book is a palindrome.

    MIND.

    BLOWN.

  8. GSS noob Says:

    Must agree with Nix: no explosions, no outer space, no ridiculous guns. So it is covert for BAEN.

    Thought at first the fellow in the background without supernumerary arms was playing the fiddle, supplying background music for the fight/rave.

  9. Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Says:

    We few. We
    “Pew-pew.” We
    Thrust dirk. We
    Smug smirk. We
    Manly men. We
    Shu-ri-ken. We
    Cover books. We
    Ruin Brooks.

    😉

  10. Tom Noir Says:

    Oh sweet, is it open mic night at GSS?!??

    Let me dig out my old tone poems.

  11. GSS ex-noob Says:

    snaps fingers

    @TW: Was this before the “oh so shiny” tag existed?

  12. JJYoyo Says:

    This cover looks a lot like the time last summer when I had to get a raccoon out of my garage.

  13. Ryan Says:

    Huh.

    I had to go look for a different photograph of this cover, as at first glance, this one makes it appear that the Purple-Bloused Swordsman has paused his swing at the Giant Green Bipedal Badger to squat and violently fart out the battle cry, “New York Times Best Seller!” And because this is a Baen cover of a John Ringo novel, that seemed entirely possible to me three minutes ago.

    But no, that is not the Purple-Bloused Swordsman’s right leg, it is the Giant Green Bipedal Badger’s right leg. Apparently the Purple-Bloused Swordsman is a monopod and possesses only the single leg, and as he has overbalanced upon it after his wild cut at the Giant Green Bipedal Badger, it is his emergency red airbag of the fallen fencer that has deployed, and it is only incidentally labeled as “New York Times Best Seller.”

  14. Emster Says:

    Whoo! Had to come of to this page and see what the chatter was about… I was not disappointed…

    @JJYoyo – @GSS x-n and I are waiting for photos of the reenactment of this cover with said racoon…

  15. Tat Wood Says:

    Ever since ‘Tron: Legacy” I’ve been wating for de-ageing software to catch up with Milo O’Shea’s wish to do a sequel to ‘Barbarella.’

    I ddn’t realse t would be a ‘Guardans of the Galaxy’ crossover.

  16. Tor Mented Says:

    Knock, knock.
    Who’s there?
    Weef.
    Weef who?
    Weef you it eez always zees Baen covairs.

  17. JJYoyo Says:

    @Emster: I actually have video – NSFW with excessive profanity. I ain’t putting it on YouTube!

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