Mar 10
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Holy crap. We need something to distract from that bright silver font we’re using. So, how about a guy with an eye patch posing with weapons and a women doing the very same thing. Put a moon in the background, and by background I mean most of the cover.

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • damsel • font problems • hunk • Simon R. Green • swords
Mar 09
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A collection of fantasy stories? Well I know what they’ll want. A huge barbarian with a ponytail swinging his axe at randomly placed wood. Hmm, you’re right, needs thickened out. Throw a stereotype wizard/fireball combination in there and some damsel with a sword.

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Tagged with: Andre Norton • Baen Books • Bill Fawcett • Brian Thomsen • damsel • David Drake • David Weber • Elizabeth Moon • hunk • loincloth • magic • magical orb • Mercedes Lackey • wizard
Mar 08
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Thanks to Nix who says:
_Patterns of Chaos_ is a slightly famous book with a lot of amazing setpiece scenes which could have been used for the cover, starting with the destruction of entire planets, meticulously described, and ending with a transgalactic trip to a memorably unpleasant destination. If any book counts as overblown space opera, this one does.
So what did they use for the cover? A scowling cowled bloke, a weird plant, a badly-designed castle and a random number generator.

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Tagged with: alien city • Award Books • Colin Kapp • hunk • monks • strange artefact • wtf
Mar 05
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NIPPLES? What’s this obsession with nipples going around at the moment? Well by heck, we will give them so many nipples it will burn their retinas. And semi-naked muscle clad men killing some sort of beast! Now if you thought that wasn’t manly enough, we’ll give them all tashes!

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • hunk • loincloth • muscles • Sterling E Lanier • swords
Mar 03
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Look, we need to appeal to both genders here. So we’ll have a male body fused with a female body from head to toe, in a kinda strange almost rubbery way. Obviously we’ll only show some cleavage because the last thing we’d want on there is a huge Johnson.
Thanks to Nix!

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Tagged with: cleavage • damsel • font problems • hunk • Mike Dolinsky
Mar 02
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So lets say we have a black man and I really mean black. We’ll have him dressed in white skin, with nipples, because without the nipples it would just look strange. I am sure we can fob it off as social commentary. As long as we have the nipples.

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Tagged with: hunk • Poul Anderson • wtf
Feb 25
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The great artists of our time had a formula were the human eye would automatically look to when presented with a work of art. At our point I know exactly what we need. A huge horses head, in pain as it gets speared by a crazed redhead.

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Tagged with: damsel • horses • hunk • Jim Burns • magic • S. L. Farrell • spear • The Cloudmages
Feb 23
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Nothing gets the attention of women more than standing in the midst of an ice cavern with little clothes and showing off your bare chest. Holding your short sword in an inspiring way while standing by your viking boat sleigh. That’s right. A boat sleigh.

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • Boris Vallejo • cape • damsel • Eric Iverson • Harry Turtledove • hunk • muscles • n an inspiring way whil • swords
Feb 18
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Every man, or lord of the lands, needs a hairy companion. And what would they do together I hear your mind ask. Well they would go hill walking, dress in lovely princely clothes and watch the sun set together over the lands of… America? Wait… what?

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • cape • Greg Call • hunk • long haired men • pointing • Ron Sarti • spear • swords
Feb 11
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What in the name of Poseidon is this? A naked women?! Look we can’t have it go out like that, at least cover her up with something adequate, like a skimpy piece of cloth and some small shells covering a small portion of her cleavage. And have her standing on a chained man, pointing her sword at him. That way, it’s acceptable.

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • cleavage • damsel • hunk • John Russell Fearn • loincloth • muscles • swords
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