Aug 27
Right, we’re in a recession, we need a cover that sells! Hmm, all black cover? You, sir, are fired! We need exploding cities in the midst of being attacked. A woman in a yellow and black striped catsuit, no wait… an alien woman! She can be holding a dagger while she peers into the foreground, completely ignoring the chaos behind her. If that doesn’t sell I’ll jump right out that window.
August 27th, 2009 at 10:55 am
That drop-winged attack craft on the left looks like something out of early 90’s computer game The Killing Cloud. Love it!
August 27th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Jump! Jump! Jump!
If you go through the effort of painting a woman in a catsuit and bother with a knife – what’s with her paunch? I mean really. Trinny and Susannah would have a field day. She’s got a lovely figure, but don’t put her in an outfit that emphasises her tummy!
Is she trying to pull Wolverine in that outfit?
August 27th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Maybe there will be an X-men cross over novel… like that star trek one. Now that was a bad cover, wish i’d taken a photo…
im confused what the orange dome thing is on the left, its a little opaque to be a forcefield.
Also the font is freakin awesome, looks like like a Goosebumps novel.
Is the city floating on the sea, or whats going on there? theres an aweful lot of blue, and something is totally wrong with the scale if those huge things are waves.
August 27th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Thing is, CSA and Roses, for all those reasons I now really want to read the book! Utmost respect to you, Steve Stone. Job done!
August 27th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
I’m quite amazed they managed to remain undiscovered for so long hanging about on rocks in dayglow catsuits. You’d have thought they’d be pretty easy to spot.
August 27th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Haha You realise that isn’t here tummy but simply her well worked out abs!
Is the big circle thing supposed to be a planet?
And recon that cat suit glows in the dark? π
August 28th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
is that an ‘H’ on her forehead? It would explain a lot….
August 29th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Ha ha –
“Marseguro, book 4 of the Smoked Kipper series,
by A. J. Rimmer”
August 31st, 2009 at 6:38 am
[…] On the theory that all publicity is good publicity, here’s a link so you can listen in to the commentors at Good Show Sir! react to the Marseguro cover (which I still like. So […]
August 31st, 2009 at 10:11 am
Wow! Thanks for the wierd, linkage, comment thing!
Edward if you are reading this we hope you read the about section to see what we are doing here.
To be fair this is just filler between the Baen covers π
August 31st, 2009 at 11:02 am
Well i did follow the link to your site a read a bit so i guess your devilish plan worked… Nice site, however i did notice the cover for Lost in translation, i wish we had it instead. Its awesome. Can you give us a photo of it in your hands? π
Marseguro is not even in the same league of badness as nearly every Baen book cover. But i’d still not particularly want to read it on a train full of ‘normal’ people (they dont like our type there).
August 31st, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Hey, I didn’t even know my site automatically created weird, linkage, comment things when I created a post like that…but cool.
The Lost in Translation cover is by the same artist, Steve Stone. My new cover (for Terra Insegura, the sequel to Marseguro) is by Hugo-winner Stephan Martiniere. Quite a difference, but I’ve been happy with all of my covers from DAW so far. The Marseguro cover for some reason seems to generate a lot of love-it-or-hate-it reaction, with little in between.
I actually do have a photo of me holding Lost in Translation. I’ll email it!
Ed Willett
August 31st, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Thats really cool. Just saw the photo!
Terra Insegura is actually a really good cover. The soft colours (and focus) always work really well, and no one particular object in the cover draws too much attention. Stephan Martiniere has done an awesome job.
Repect for indulging our strange hobby, i read the first chaper of Marseguro on your site. Quite liked it, ill buy it since you’re cool B-) , after i read it, i’ll even reccommend it to all 3 of my friends π
September 1st, 2009 at 6:23 am
That’s great!
When I do school readings I make fun of some of the covers of my own earliest books, so believe me, I know where you’re coming from!
September 1st, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I bought Marseguro from amazon.
I looked up a few of your older covers too, some are pretty cheesy to say the least, but i guess they’re aimed at young teens. Spirit Singer gave me a chuckle.
Congrats on the Aurora Award.
Don’t be a stranger if you feel like submitting some of your other books for our harsh judgement π
Thanks for linking us from your site.
February 10th, 2013 at 9:51 pm
I think it’s simply grand that they’re including people of Kayan heritage on these covers.
February 10th, 2013 at 10:24 pm
I thought this was a poster for a new Cirque Du Soleil show. After Alegria and Kooza comes Marseguro.
It might have been easier to pronounce if it had been called Mars-a-gogo.
October 24th, 2015 at 2:34 pm
@Edward: I realise that authors aren’t allowed much input on the covers. But if the blurb is, ‘Can the hidden colony of Marseguro survive rediscovery?’ and there’s explosions and floods all over the cover, my first thought is, ‘Not so much, no, it can’t.’ Maybe work that one out next time? π
January 6th, 2016 at 7:51 am
“Can the hidden colony of Marseguro survive rediscovery?”
Can the book Marseguro survive that blurb?
September 24th, 2021 at 8:19 pm
Can this post survive rediscovery?
I know that stripes are supposed to be slimming. But with her, I can’t figure out where her torso ends and her right arm takes over.
September 25th, 2021 at 6:22 am
Can this woman survive having her arm grafted to her torso?
September 26th, 2021 at 9:30 am
What, no “look behind you!” tag?
September 27th, 2021 at 6:30 am
@Bruce: She’s a Cool Girl, obviously and doesn’t look behind her at explosions.
December 21st, 2021 at 3:39 am
Marseguro is:
A) an obscure sushi choice
B) Esperanto for βthe ides of Marchβ
C) A Martian insurance broker
D) all of the above