Jun 24
Click for larger imageChaz comments: The Eye of Sauron sees your copyright infringement.
Published 2005
(Average: 7.06 out of 10)
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Chaz comments: The Eye of Sauron sees your copyright infringement.
Published 2005
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June 24th, 2021 at 11:02 am
“What has it got in its pocketses? Oh, it’s a cease and desist letter.”
June 24th, 2021 at 1:48 pm
Or “Schmitz’s Witches” as it is known in the trade.
June 24th, 2021 at 1:57 pm
Yet another cover that bears a reference to Anusol.
June 24th, 2021 at 2:04 pm
Which witches are the witches of Schmitz?
(@Biblio, for a laugh, look up Schmitz on Urban Dictionary. You might have to scroll down.)
June 24th, 2021 at 2:12 pm
Ting tag too?
June 24th, 2021 at 2:14 pm
Did anyone else see that South Park episode with the giant turd?
June 24th, 2021 at 2:48 pm
@JuanPaul: You mean Elon Musk?
June 24th, 2021 at 3:33 pm
Someone drove a steam-roller over an Ice Warrior: there were three eye-witnesses, visiting from 1983, but they claim to have been distracted by a burning turd floating over the corpse.
June 24th, 2021 at 4:07 pm
When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Or another bad cover
Produced by Baen?
June 24th, 2021 at 4:19 pm
@Tor – Not just Ting!
fonTing!
June 24th, 2021 at 4:30 pm
In this case the turd is less a case of you can’t unsee it and more a case of how could anyone not see it. C’mon Baen, even with the eye vomit set all the way to 11, it’s right friggin there.
June 24th, 2021 at 4:36 pm
The spaceship at the bottom of the cover is starting to look more and more like a disappointed robot.
June 24th, 2021 at 5:24 pm
Mr. Miller really didn’t bring his A game to this cover. He just must have needed lunch money.
https://www.artstation.com/kmistudio
June 24th, 2021 at 6:22 pm
@Tor I think that was the sequel episode. Bono was the turd in the first one.
June 24th, 2021 at 6:30 pm
Ah, THAT South Park Episode! I can’t forget the heart-warming song:
Mr. Karres, the Cosmic Poo
You love him, he loves you
I promise he shows up after you
eat burning hot vindaloo!
June 24th, 2021 at 7:55 pm
ARY@15: GSS!
June 24th, 2021 at 8:10 pm
You will regret clicking this link. You’ve been warned: https://youtu.be/hbBrnEU-ZUc
June 24th, 2021 at 10:45 pm
Witches get shitses
June 25th, 2021 at 1:06 am
@JP: When I clicked that, I first had to watch a commercial.
For McDonald’s.
I wonder if they know what they’re sponsoring.
June 25th, 2021 at 2:07 am
Oh, none of us had to check the tags or even look closely at the cover to know the publisher, did we?
This is a good book which does NOT deserve that cover. It’s had bad ones most of the time, but this is indeed the worst. Even the other bad covers were such that you could at least read the title.
And in no case was there an Eye of Sauron With Turd in the book.
I wonder how much Eric Flint “edited” this. Maybe someday someone will re-issue the original works without his
rewrites and additions“edits”.GSS all for the poop jokes. Sometimes we make highbrow literary comments, and sometimes poo jokes are all a book gives us to work with.
(This is not to be confused with The Alex of Karras, who was only pawn in game of life.)
June 25th, 2021 at 6:04 am
I imagine the cover design discussion went something like this:
“Hey, those Lord of the Rings movies are still kinda hot, right? Let’s pick up some of that positive vibe with subliminal advertising!”
“Do you even know what that is?”
“Shush you. Just put something on the cover that will capture the magic without getting us sued.”
“OK, but I think this is a really shitty idea.”
And he went on to “subliminally” express his feelings.
April 3rd, 2022 at 12:32 am
This is one of the “Baen-iest” covers I’ve every seen. If Good Show Sir hid the publishing identifications on 100 SF covers and showed them to us at random, pretty sure most if not all of this group of SF cover enthusiasts would immediately and correctly identify the Baen covers.