Aug 12
We’ve both been talking this over and really there is one thing we need on our cover. A horrific font! Have it big, bold, blocky and have the ‘fought’ look like someone has tried to adjust the colour balance in photoshop and then forgot about it. For the rest, just have some women crawling out of the air vent shooting an android. But seriously, who cares about the artwork these days.
August 12th, 2009 at 10:37 am
haha, i can just see the artist aswell…
Artist: “ah, done and done… pretty good”
Author: ” Freaking awesome! oh but its called “THE” city who fought, you left out the “the”, you n00b!”
Artist: “ah well sure i’ll just wing the word inside a purple and black circle and stick a lightning bolt throught it”
Author: “OMGZ, THAT ROXORS”
Artist: “indeed”
(for some reason in my reality Anne McCaffery is a 14 year old l33t gamer)
August 12th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
haha next you will say Anne McCaffery is some 80 year old women or something LOLz
Yea… I didn’t actually notice the horrible ‘the’ box. Wow… just wow…
August 14th, 2009 at 11:06 am
For some reason this looks like it could have been an alternative mock-up for the home port of Xenophobe. I like that. A lot.
December 20th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
“THE SHIP WHO SANG is not alone!”
Well, I’m glad the singing ship has found a significant other / life partner / friend / one-night ship stand.
December 23rd, 2010 at 3:11 am
Re: A.R Yngve’s Last comment
I’ve actually read this book, and firstly “the city” is a space habitat, similar to say, Babylon 5, which is taken over by human invaders, from a degenerated colony…
And for the “life partner”, it’s more like “extremely disabled fellow classmate” of Helva, rather than any of the above, as the administrator is a “shellperson” as I recall…
December 30th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Robot Thomas Jefferson?
January 7th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
That android is thinking, dammit not more lesbians!
January 10th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Of course, the grammar checker should have been applied to this cover. The ship WHO sang? The city WHO fought?
January 17th, 2011 at 9:31 am
Well, yes… technically speaking, the title should’ve read “The City Which Fought” or “The City That Fought”… but I’ll admit the right to artistic license in this case.
It’s the message of the cover I’m not down with. Jeez, city, can’t we cities all get along…?
April 3rd, 2013 at 7:51 pm
The Town That Tussled! The Borough That Brawled! The Village that Vamped! (it was a lover, not a fighter.)/
April 9th, 2013 at 3:41 pm
This futuristic world has the worst hair cuts!
On angry-militant-lesbian-femme-fatale and that poor arthritic cyborgy-robocop thing. Why does he even have hair to beging with? Why is it white and shaped like a sand barge?? To match his eyebrows? Why does he even HAVE eyebrows?? WHY GOD WHY???
April 14th, 2014 at 1:42 pm
It’s as if the people doing Ted Danson’s makeup weren’t sure if he’d be playing Robespierre or a Robot so they hedged their bets and created a heavily-armed cyborg Enlightenment wit – with blackface, just to annoy Whoopie Goldberg all over again.
Still, at least this is one book we can be confident won’t have a gushing pull-quote from Anne McCaffrey on the back.
April 14th, 2014 at 3:20 pm
Take careful note: ‘City Who Fought’ is plugged into an earthed wire, but ‘The’ is carrying a static electrical charge.
April 15th, 2014 at 2:12 am
OK, we need to get this site back on track, DSWBT is starting to go a little crazy.
April 15th, 2014 at 4:10 am
Time takes a cigarette….
May 14th, 2015 at 7:52 pm
You know, the victim seems to have suffered a black and white negative effect (like victims of the Daleks suffered in classic doctor who). Which would make the girl a sexy dalek girl.. A sexy bisexual (but mostly lesbian) dalek girl with a fetish for airvents. Oh heavens, the slash fanfic basically writes itself 🙂
January 22nd, 2017 at 4:11 am
“The” circle with lightning bolt is like the logo of the 1980 Flash Gordon.
But this is too gaudy, tacky, and camp for even Freddie Mercury.
“Who” is correct as the ship, city, etc. are run by severely physically disabled babies who get put into life support modules and hooked up to run things.
Which is actually terrifying — this only happens if they’re very smart and can handle this. Otherwise, the babies are euthanized. Oh, and after their training, they’re heavily in debt, so they’re effectively slave labor for many years, running space stations, starships, and the economy in dangerous places for all the lovely “normal” people while spending their entire lives in boxes.
Yes, in this future, human beings have FTL travel and can interface brains to control complex machinery — but apparently have forgotten how to make wheelchairs, computers like what Stephen Hawking uses, and any prenatal tests to see if the kid’s going to have a problem. Not to mention the elimination of everyone of less than normal intelligence.
Eine volk.
May 30th, 2022 at 11:47 am
“I’ve seen things you people can’t imagine. Hair made of meringue glittering in the dark. Ruby Rose opening fire at the Tannnhauser Gates. All these memories will be lost in Baen….”
May 30th, 2022 at 10:35 pm
“Time to die… or at least purge your library of this publisher’s work.”
(They got into e-books early; probably helps their sales since you can’t see the cover of an e-book when you’re on the bus or visiting someone with taste.)
May 31st, 2022 at 1:21 am
So you’ve obtained a previously used space station, and as so often, the air vents are infested with plucky young resistance fighters? Call the vent and conduit clearance specialists: 1-800-GREASEDSCOTSMAN.
May 31st, 2022 at 4:57 pm
Before taking your seat, make sure your guerrilla fighter is stowed safely in the overhead compartment.