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Click for larger imageArthur Dent Comments: In the future, self-driving cars will still have issues.
Published 1996
(Average: 7.40 out of 10)
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Arthur Dent Comments: In the future, self-driving cars will still have issues.
Published 1996
(Average: 7.40 out of 10)Loading...
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September 18th, 2018 at 10:15 am
I feel this should be a Motorhead album, but not a Motorhead album cover. It has Nick Kamen on it, for a start.
September 18th, 2018 at 12:15 pm
Looking at the door behind him, I guess explosives are the only way to enter a building.
September 18th, 2018 at 1:49 pm
Poor fellow; the explosion blew his spaghetti colander clear off his noggin. Maybe he can borrow the robot’s tactical fedora.
September 18th, 2018 at 1:50 pm
That must be the most low rent robot since Robot Monster.
September 18th, 2018 at 1:57 pm
“Hey get that dog outta here, I’m a robot godammit, not a fire hydrant!”
September 18th, 2018 at 2:40 pm
This cover certainly poses a lot of questions.
September 18th, 2018 at 3:19 pm
Even busking has been automated..The tin hat on the floor to the right of Nick, as we look at it, belongs to the robot mime artist on his left..
September 18th, 2018 at 6:10 pm
I’m not sure this guy entirely got the memo for how to dress inconspicuously when time travelling.
September 18th, 2018 at 6:10 pm
Death never should have mentioned that he was only two days from retirement.
September 18th, 2018 at 6:45 pm
The title makes it sound like this book was written by a 12 year old boy. The cover does little to dispel that impression.
September 18th, 2018 at 9:10 pm
Nick Deathkiller remembers why he shouldn’t leave his car running unattended.
September 18th, 2018 at 9:32 pm
I’ve read this one! It’s actually pretty good. The scene on the cover does sort of happen (a storefront explodes as the hero is walking past), but it’s hardly a pivotal moment. I always thought it was an odd choice.
September 19th, 2018 at 12:21 am
Baggy ankle pants! We probably don’t need a tag for this…..yet.
September 19th, 2018 at 5:17 am
This is hideous, ugly artwork with terrible colors and proportions/angles… and yet somehow, it’s the font abuse that really sets my teeth on edge.
@Tom (10): Isn’t most of the output of this publisher aimed at 12 year old boys and their theoretically-grown up selves? Even when they do occasionally print something that isn’t, they have to slap a cover on it that appeals to them.
What do you call a house style when the house has no style?
(Is Felix gonna come by and see if we’re still making Three Stooges jokes?)
September 19th, 2018 at 11:07 am
@Tom Noir. Alternatively, it’s what you get when your Nineties Anti-hero Name Generator™ is just a trifle glitchy.
DEATHKILLER.
He kills Death… to death!!!
September 19th, 2018 at 2:51 pm
I bet Deathkiller don’t make records as good as Deathtöngue.
September 19th, 2018 at 10:57 pm
(Hero notes explosion, flying car)
“Uh oh…looks like Death’s still alive!”
October 28th, 2018 at 5:29 pm
What really bothers me about this cover, is that the original published work (this is a reprinting) had remarkably elegant artwork.
October 29th, 2018 at 9:09 pm
@Chris: Such is the way of BAEN! explosions and ignoring the laws of perspective.
They’ve never seen a book they couldn’t ruin with a garish, shitty cover. I’m only surprised they didn’t work a woman with cleavage in here.
Do you have a link to another cover? I can’t find one.
October 4th, 2019 at 9:59 pm
I can’t believe the editor let this cover pass Quality Control.
I mean, come on! A Baen cover with an UNARMED guy in the foreground?
He should at least hold a pistol in each hand. Bloody amateurism!
October 5th, 2019 at 3:36 am
As I read somewhere else, “the problem with artificial intelligence is that it’s a product of human intelligence.”
And, pray tell, how is it possible to kill death? Or is that “kill Death”, like if someone was somehow able to knock off the Grim Reaper?