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Northworld – Vengeance

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:49:33 +0000

MisterBOB’s Art Direction: Make the armour shinny… it’s a David Drake book!
Published 1991

Time Traders II

admin — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:23:35 +0000

Jen Comments: You know, it’s been a while since I’ve read this, but you’d think I’d remember the part with the giant mecha vs. super soldier race. And boy, is that shiny.
Published 2001

Great Science Fiction Stories

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:14:12 +0000

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Nix comments: This has an annoyingly shiny cover, so it may be hard to read its contents. It’s an anthology of four famous SF works: _2001_, _The Demolished Man_, _The Day of the Triffids_, and _I, Robot_. As you know, all of these contained city-sized giant mecha and huge explosions (although only two had the giant mecha dive-bombed by rocketships), so the cover is quite appropriate, and obviously is a fine piece of artwork: tasteful, yet subtle. I’m only sending it in because it’s so annoyingly shiny.

Many thanks to Nix!

Forest Mage

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:44:26 +0000

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Rex’s Art Direction: Okay, gaudy covers are out, minimalism is in! So let’s see, what shall we put on this cover… a fish! Yes, a fish, that’s right, I’m sure they live in forests, right?

Thanks to Albertosaurus Rex!

This Scepter’d Isle

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:24:22 +0000

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Gwad Darn it, we know from experience realism sells! If you haven’t got some models to pose for you in costume it’s just not going to sell. We’ll grab their attention with a kid hiding behind a sword fighters cape. Then we can make it shiny…

Storm From the Shadows

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:38:22 +0000

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Look, with this we’re in a wi- win situation. How could we go wrong with a space ship going through some sort of light speed travel and the captain pointing at a huge shiny hologram of a person? Just as long as we keep the fonts subtle we’ll be fine.

The Falcon Rises

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:10:51 +0000

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Eyelashes! We’ll have a dragon with eyelashes, peering over at some wizard reading his dragon magical book. It won’t just be any mage, he’ll have a magical staff! Unheard of I know. And a side parting to make the king of side partings proud. As for the title, make it silver. We have to stand out somehow.

Die Wacht am Rhein

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:35:53 +0000

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Out of the many things I have quoted which people love, I can guarantee there is nothing loved more on a cover than a good nazi! In a tank. With a huge purple nuclear explosion going off in the background. And the cover all shiny. Nothing more my friend. Nothing more.

Pegasus in Flight

admin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:22:28 +0000

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Guy sits uncomfortably on the tail of a space shuttle. Don’t forget huge shiny text. And we’ll have to quote another one of her books, something that will really appeal to those hardcore Sci-Fi readers. Oh oh! I know. Dragons of Pern. Ace!

By Slanderous Tongues

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:24:20 +0000

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The shine! We are all about the shine. But we’re lacking somewhere, there is just something we need to push the readers right over the edge and into the pit of greatness. Got it! Half naked faeries and royal elves. Making one of them look like an Elizabethan queen will drive all the boys craze-Z!