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Tom Noir Comments: There’s a lot going on on this cover, so let me break it down for you: BLAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHH!
Published 2000
Tom Noir Comments: There’s a lot going on on this cover, so let me break it down for you: BLAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHH!
Published 2000
March 25th, 2015 at 10:30 am
“That… that logo! It cannot be! Never mind the space battle – look at the publisher!”
March 25th, 2015 at 10:30 am
If you zoom in he’s clearly watching an episode of his favourite soap on one of those screens!
March 25th, 2015 at 10:54 am
Scene from Team America: Space Police.
March 25th, 2015 at 11:30 am
The cover that truly speaks to the inner ten-year-old in every red-blooded American male.
March 25th, 2015 at 11:31 am
“In a hundred years, humanity would be invulnerable”…
Yeah yeah, coulda woulda shoulda.
March 25th, 2015 at 11:33 am
Sequels to DYKSTRA’S WAR were:
– MELVIN’S WAR
– LISA’S WAR
– SMITH’S WAR
– IT’S GOT WAR IN IT, WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?
March 25th, 2015 at 12:08 pm
This cover was probably John Dykstra’s real plan for ‘Silent Running’.
March 25th, 2015 at 12:39 pm
Written by Jeffery “My parents couldn’t spell Jeffrey (or Geoffrey)” D. Kooistra.
March 25th, 2015 at 1:14 pm
The word for the day is ‘gobsmacked’.
‘The Ensign was gobsmacked at the BAEN cover he found himself starring in.’
March 25th, 2015 at 1:16 pm
I appreciate how the foreground red light is pouring out of the Baen symbol.
March 25th, 2015 at 1:29 pm
I know the blurb is pretty much invisible amidst the explosions and typography, but it’s pretty stunning in its own right.
“In a hundred years, humanity would be invulnerable- but the future is now…”
Is there any way at all for that to make sense?
Let’s see… humanity will be invulnerable in the future, which is now, so humanity is now invulnerable, hence Dykstra’s slack-jawed apathy in the midst of a massive space-battle.
Or, though the future is now, this present-future is not the future in which the invulnerability of humanity will be achieved. This will happen at a later, not-now, point of the future, or possibly in an alternate timeline. Dykstra looks that way because he is confused, and no wonder.
March 25th, 2015 at 2:14 pm
Nice how his Orange tunic matches the Orange letters,logo’s even the space fire !
March 25th, 2015 at 3:17 pm
I often wondered what became of Ike Eisenman. I bet, just before he pressed the ‘fire’ button thinking it was the intercom, he told himself “You can do it, Duffy Moon”.
March 25th, 2015 at 3:37 pm
Orange and blue and explosion! Orange and blue and explosion! Orange and blue and explosion! Warning:This cover can induce epileptic seizures or anaphylactic shock. Consult your physician before purchasing.
March 25th, 2015 at 5:13 pm
Wait, are you supposed to wear 3D glasses when you look at this??!?
March 28th, 2015 at 1:35 pm
Incidentally, the guy on the cover is what Baen hopes one of their readers will look like when glimpsing one of their Awe Inspiring 3D Day Glo Covers ™ for the first time.
March 29th, 2015 at 11:20 am
JEFFERY D. KOOISTRA’S DYKSTRA’S WAR: REVENGE OF THE FRISIANS
April 10th, 2015 at 6:51 pm
@RachelJ: Have at this blurb: Thrice Upon a Time.
April 13th, 2015 at 9:14 am
Not satisified with waging fake space war in sci-fi films, John Dykstra built a space fleet and started the real thing.
April 17th, 2015 at 7:08 am
Mr. Dykstra/D. Kooistra must be extremely used to the spelling errors by now.
Otherwise he wouldn’t have okayed the cover.
December 23rd, 2015 at 3:57 pm
Thank you, RachelJ, for zeroing in on the first thing…well, no the second thing… that jumped out at me from this cover. (The first was ORANGE!) The logic of that blurb does not exist. Unless maybe the invaders are time travelers so the present for us is the future for the invaders…Just a thought.
February 16th, 2016 at 11:08 am
In the future, green colour overlays will be banned. Was this cover designed on an IBM PC with a CGA card or something? Oh, “the future is now.” WRONG! The PRESENT is now, the FUTURE is what’s to come.
As an aside, I believe the slack jawed human in the picture represents the artists impression of the author at the first viewing of the cover art. 🙂
February 18th, 2016 at 10:20 am
@DaveM Well, “The future is now” has been used as for two songs, an equal number of films, a hip-hop album, numerous inspirational posters and approximately 50% of all articles ever written in technology magazines without anyone bothering their pretty little heads over the fact that it makes no sense whatever- did you expect Baen to start?
February 18th, 2016 at 2:41 pm
@DaveM, RachelJ—I thought the future was now. Oh well, I guess I just have to wait for it . . . .
February 18th, 2016 at 2:51 pm
@B. Chiclitz
The future is fun! … The future is fair! … You may already have won! … You may already be there!
February 18th, 2016 at 5:01 pm
@Bibliomancer—
I say live it or live with it.
November 4th, 2017 at 11:02 pm
Battlestar Catastrophe
November 5th, 2017 at 3:06 am
There is no font large enough (or orange enough) to write how overly BAEN!explosionpewpewwhoopwhoopkerpowholyjebus this is.
It’s bad enough looking at it this way; I suspect Dykstra’s war will be against blindness from having been in the middle of it.