Dec 08
Click for larger imageJuanPaul Comments: This guy really hates twelve sided die.
Published 2011
(Average: 7.70 out of 10)
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JuanPaul Comments: This guy really hates twelve sided die.
Published 2011
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December 8th, 2021 at 9:47 am
David Icke approves of this cover.
December 8th, 2021 at 10:09 am
There are too many letters in the title. Fortunately on first viewing my brain filtered out the unnecessary ones.
December 8th, 2021 at 10:10 am
“So I says, ‘Gee, Mom, you’re not making me wear this for the big battle, and she says…”
December 8th, 2021 at 12:25 pm
The Command Dodecahedrons suggest this is an Aldenata (Posleen) book. Kratman’s name suggests there will be heroic Nazis, Texas separatists, or both.
December 8th, 2021 at 12:49 pm
My favorite part of the LOTR books is when Halberd shows up with the Dunedain of the North and the sons of Elrond.
December 8th, 2021 at 1:47 pm
“Why is the Turdlord so angry?” I asked myself, until I finally realized it was the eye of a dragon or giant toad or whatever overlooking him.
No one likes to be micromanaged.
December 8th, 2021 at 2:28 pm
Papal Swiss Guard Fanfic
December 8th, 2021 at 3:58 pm
Anyone who grew up in 70s Britain expects Stuart Hall or Eddie Waring to do the commentary.
Anyone from early 80s Britain expects Kevin Rowland to sing the theme song.
December 8th, 2021 at 4:02 pm
Instead of being known for great skiing like its sister city, Telluride Colorado, Tuloriad is famous for its over aggressive LARP tournaments.
December 8th, 2021 at 4:15 pm
Look out, aliens! The Pope has unleashed the Swiss Guard, and they have pointy sticks!
“Ringo’s military SF is unparalleled, fortunately” – Library Journal.
@JuanPaul: using SF to make life more like a LARP is something of a running gag for Baen authors. One might note SM Stirlingsilver’s Change Series, in which he uses one of those pesky changes in the fundamental laws of physics to turn the world into a giant Society for Creative Anachronism-wank at the negligible cost of a few billion lives.
Edit: didn’t notice Bibliomancer got in there ahead of me.
December 8th, 2021 at 4:19 pm
@Dave: don’t summon the K-man. He’s one of those types who trawls the internet for mentions of his name, so he can show up and be obnoxious to those which have taken it in vain.
December 8th, 2021 at 5:22 pm
Review of the book.
https://seekingnewearth.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/guest-review-the-tuloriad/
‘By the way, the priest is married to the ship and the Pope has reinstated marriage by priests and has actually commanded it for up to 4 wives at a time. It works better than you may think in the story.’
December 8th, 2021 at 7:07 pm
@fred: Anyone who apparently liked “Caliphate” is not someone whose opinion on SF books I’m going to put much faith in.
December 8th, 2021 at 7:18 pm
It’s as if the cover is trying to escape itself out of sheer despair.
December 8th, 2021 at 9:48 pm
It’s no wonder the poor Swissguardsman is in such a bad mood, what with his terribly withered right arm and all.
December 8th, 2021 at 11:49 pm
Dan Starkey’s doing his best but this new Sontaran costume isn’t doing it for me.
December 9th, 2021 at 12:05 am
“WOULD IT KILL YOU TO GET A VACUUM CLEANER IN HERE?!!!”
December 9th, 2021 at 4:46 am
Going by the authors’ names, “this guy” also hates independent women, Muslims, LGBT, PoC, non-‘Muricns, gun control, and anyone politically to the left of… anybody.
This is supremely cluttered and ugly even by the standards of BAEN!!!gunsboobsbullshit. You can almost hear it.
@Dave: I’m betting on Nazi Texans. Even worse than Illinois Nazis, and we all know how bad they are.
@Bruce: what you said.
@Tat: Oi! Don’t insult Sontarans like that. They’re more liberal than these authors.
December 9th, 2021 at 9:39 am
Q: What, exactly, is a “New York Times Best-Selling Series”?
A: No one knows anymore. It’s just something a publisher slaps onto covers in the hope it might help sales. Think of it as a kind of lucky charm or prayer wheel.
December 9th, 2021 at 11:58 pm
I initially read the title as “The Tutoriad” and thought, “Wow, this is much more violent and fugly than any tutorial session I ever had or heard of.”
@ARY: GSS.
@Bruce: I would extend that to “… whose opinion on ANYTHING is…”
Also the full blurb said, “is unparalleled… because everyone with any taste or decency is fleeing perpendicularly from it”.
Finally, obligatory OH JOHN RINGO NO.
September 29th, 2023 at 3:07 pm
Aguirre, the Wrath of Godzilla.