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Click for full imageTom Noir’s Art Direction: I brought in my favourite 90’s computer game. Just grab some stills from it and we’re good to go!
Published 2002
(Average: 8.41 out of 10)
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Tom Noir’s Art Direction: I brought in my favourite 90’s computer game. Just grab some stills from it and we’re good to go!
Published 2002
(Average: 8.41 out of 10)Loading...
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March 21st, 2014 at 9:56 am
His mum promised he’d grow into that spacesuit.
March 21st, 2014 at 10:24 am
“I can’t spell marvellous!”
– David Weber
March 21st, 2014 at 10:30 am
Either that gun’s really made from toilet-roll middles and squeezy-bottles or Buzz Lightyear’s going to have a sprained wrist in a different way from most John Ringo fans’.
March 21st, 2014 at 11:03 am
“I can’t spell Webber!”
– David Weber
March 21st, 2014 at 11:04 am
That guy’s Sontaran costume is none too convincing.
March 21st, 2014 at 11:42 am
Ah! I’ve hit on a BRILLIANT way to recycle those McDonald’s food boxes. Fetch me an alligator, a turtle, and a lot of petroleum jelly.
March 21st, 2014 at 12:27 pm
That isn’t a gun. It’s a bar feed unit from an old 5/8″ Wickman multi-spindle.
Is this book about intergalactic repetition engineering?
March 21st, 2014 at 12:50 pm
Busy, ludicrous cover art? Check. 3D title font? Check. John Ringo byline? Check. A pull quote from David Weber? Check.
I can’t help but feel that the ‘Baen’ logo is a little redundant here.
March 21st, 2014 at 1:01 pm
What, no Eric Flint? This must be a Chinese knockoff of a Baen book. You’re slipping Zhou Li.
March 21st, 2014 at 1:31 pm
@rev, quite right, Gust Front is the first entry in a rebooted, Hollywood franchise-friendly reimagining of that famous pre-war play Trouble at Mill
March 21st, 2014 at 2:08 pm
I haven’t seen a spacesuit this ridiculous since:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/11/gray-lensman/
March 21st, 2014 at 3:22 pm
The alligator’s popping his head through a wormhole and winking at us. Is this an oblique reference to a much better book’s cover? http://library.sdsu.edu/scua/new-notable/frank-kelly-freas-what-me-worry
March 21st, 2014 at 4:41 pm
‘I’m your huckleberry.’
March 21st, 2014 at 7:38 pm
Puny Earthling I am in need of a dentist and someone with a background in xenobiology. I seem to have sprouted teeth from my back.
March 21st, 2014 at 7:46 pm
Diplomatic relations with Earth had stalled when the Alligatorians would break out into roarous laughter everytime the Humans showed up in their biosuits and oversized guns.
Snarl: “Hey Snap-Trap check out the size of that ones gun…(giggling).”
Snap-Trap: “har har, yes he is obvioulsy compensating for small cloaca opening.”
Snarl: “How do Humans relieve themselves in those ridiculous suits?”
Snap-Trap: “I heard they do it in their suits until they can no longer move due to smell and weight.”
Snarl: “No, you must be kidding?”
Snap-Trap: “I do not kid….”
Cletus: “Hey what are you two leather heads going on aboot?”
Snarl: “Uhh, nothing, nothing captain tin can….(snorts with laughter)”
Snap-Trap: “Yes just admiring your gun, sure is big (giggles)…
Snarl: (bursts out laughing)
March 21st, 2014 at 9:48 pm
FROG STUNT
GUT FRONTS
STUNG FORT
SOFT GRUNT
OFT GRUNTS
TURF TONGS
Frankly, I think the anagrams sound more manly than the real title!
March 24th, 2014 at 2:18 am
Currently part of Baen’s free library.
http://www.baenebooks.com/p-194-gust-front.aspx
Or you could keep on judging a book by its cover…
March 25th, 2014 at 12:12 pm
The little-known author Gust Front (pseudonym for M. Podznofsky) failed so badly with his debut novel JOHN RINGO, the two-fisted tale of Space Marine Lt. Ringo, that he retired from writing and became a full-time accountant.
March 25th, 2014 at 12:18 pm
Hm, I thought the B-decs were taller than that. And the C-decs look a little too small. And why not have a Godking Posleen instead of a grunt?
March 26th, 2014 at 8:20 am
“Gust Front”? What kind of name is that? Surely there has been some mistake. This book is obviously “Attack of the Rockoids II: Revenge of the Rockogators”.
March 27th, 2014 at 8:26 pm
@Osmod – We do not judge books. We judge covers.
March 23rd, 2015 at 7:50 pm
John Ringo by Gust Front
December 14th, 2015 at 6:10 am
“Slicey slicey, oncey twicey, claw and fang’ll kill Dredd nicely!”
December 14th, 2015 at 8:26 am
“They’re Gust and Front. They’re the Federation’s most ruthless real estate agents. Now they’ll give you a deal you can’t turn down — OR ELSE!”