Nov 09
Emster comments: Okay class, who can tell me what makes this a Classic Baen Cover?
Published 2000
(Average: 4.63 out of 10)
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Emster comments: Okay class, who can tell me what makes this a Classic Baen Cover?
Published 2000
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November 9th, 2022 at 10:07 am
Together, but not on the cover. Which for BAEN seems ludicrous.
November 9th, 2022 at 10:21 am
You know, I could do with a good old BAEN explosion just to clear my head after looking at that mess.
November 9th, 2022 at 1:56 pm
I think her kneecap is about to explode
November 9th, 2022 at 2:19 pm
More than half those dynamite sticks are defective.
But this cover shows that the artist really knows what Baen readers love most dearly — a keg.
November 9th, 2022 at 2:27 pm
Ooo! Ooo! Mister Kotter! Mister Kotter! Ooo! Ooo! Ooo!
… It says ‘Baen’ on the cover!
November 9th, 2022 at 2:34 pm
I hope that’s Trigger Argee on the cover as Telzey Amberdon is in her mid teens, and is probably a bit young to be dressing up in leather for Baen fans…
November 9th, 2022 at 2:43 pm
Ginger fondles the bottom of gun, but won’t touch the barrel.
What a Glock tease.
November 9th, 2022 at 3:04 pm
@Tor – Good spot. Prolly a hint as to the quality of prose within.
November 9th, 2022 at 3:23 pm
Her left knee is rather higher than her right.
If that’s Trigger, where’s the broom?
November 9th, 2022 at 3:40 pm
@NomadUK: Good eye!
November 9th, 2022 at 3:59 pm
You know the Baen slogan, “If the title is a doozy, on the cover put a floozy.”
November 9th, 2022 at 4:05 pm
When the titles contain puns, add some cleavage and some buns.
November 9th, 2022 at 6:17 pm
Baen go boom
November 9th, 2022 at 6:21 pm
@Max Bathroom: That does indeed represent Trigger, who is specifically a redhead—Telzey has brown hair and is much younger. But I hope and believe that Schmitz’s Trigger Argee had a bit more style than the floozy on the cover.
November 9th, 2022 at 6:28 pm
@Longtime Lurker
Thanks. I should perhaps, have taken the fact that she’s fondling a handgun as a tip that she’s Trigger rather than the other character named on the cover…
November 9th, 2022 at 7:09 pm
More fun than a barrel of K’zin.
November 9th, 2022 at 7:57 pm
@Emster: The answer is — Everything!
You can guess which one of the girls that is. The less-interesting, more cliche one who fit their cover specs.
This isn’t a bad book of stories; a couple of them are good. I got it used and promptly out of the house. It might have been on the Paperback Spinner of Shame at the library, even, or possibly on the discard shelves.
Caveat to above: one of the stories was about neither. “Editor” Flint did a search and replace on a completely unrelated story to rewrite it into a (meh) Trigger story. And it shows. Flint did a LOT of that. They’re only together in one story IIRC, but all of them (plus the ringer) were needed to make one book.
@Ryan, Tor, fred: GSS!
@L_L: IIRC, Trigger only bimbo’d up when it was necessary to the mission. She’d never actually work in a leather/pleather onesie and high heels. Especially one so skin-tight she couldn’t hide a lot of weapons and gadgets. She’s a *secret* agent.
She was such a good spy she and her competitor/love interest could take the place of two completely unrelated characters!
More factoids over and above the usual: this publisher’s message board actively supported the January 6 treasonous, murderous riot. When it was pointed out, they said “meh” and directed torrents of abuse and death threats towards anyone who objected to an armed mob killing people and attempting a coup.
As if their reputation wasn’t already bad enough. Now they’re officially the SF house of Q.
November 10th, 2022 at 3:10 am
I have yet to discover if the stories behind this lively cover will be as amusing as the above comments, but the price I paid at the thrift shop was TOTALLY worth it!
November 10th, 2022 at 8:45 pm
@Emster: It won’t be nearly as amusing as we are.
If that’s Trigger, where are Roy and Dale?
Telzey is smarter and has a very cool pet.
November 11th, 2022 at 5:06 am
It seems entirely appropriate that when I first saw this cover yesterday, the Random Terrible Cover was “Welcome to the Monkey House”.
December 3rd, 2022 at 5:12 pm
See me fly out from the planet
On your Baen paperback
Out for all that I can get
If you know what I lack
Women to the left of me
And aliens to the right
I sure got a gun
I sure got a knife
Don’t you start no fight
‘Cause I’m
(T.N.T.) I’m dynamite
(T.N.T.) And I’ll win the fight
(T.N.T.) I’m a power load
(T.N.T.) Watch me sell loads…