Jan 27
Click for full imageWe’ll have a dragon sweeping into a castle wall, a ninja on its back. And we’ll have the dragon actually killing someone with it’s, ummmm, magic breath. That’s right, just magic. Possibly electricity. I don’t know what dragons actually breathed, I haven’t got to that part in my dragonology night course yet.
(Average: 6.66 out of 10)
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January 27th, 2010 at 9:41 am
Whatever happened to “hath” anyway? “Hath” is great. I vote we bring back “hath” into everyday conversation, starting right away.
January 27th, 2010 at 9:41 am
That book hath a terrible cover.
There!
January 27th, 2010 at 9:50 am
Ah, good ole Weber and his huge orange fonts, havent seen a Weber here in too long.
“Don’t tase me bro, don’t tase me”
My eyes hath bled
January 27th, 2010 at 9:57 am
Clearly of the ‘none more so’ school of cover design.
January 27th, 2010 at 10:00 am
‘My rib cage hath melted.’
I do enjoy also that JustinLeego obviously considered the art too much for ones eyes, so he gave it the 45 degree tilt for the picture.
Hath you enough vegetables? I can see it working in an everyday context!
Today is going to be a good day!
January 27th, 2010 at 11:54 am
“I’m afraid, Mr Smith, you hath herpies”
“Mrs Smith hath a gun, im dead”
we need to register www. bringbackhath. com … ot not…
btw this book is technically free online… Free Library there are tonnes of Baen books available there.
It seems strange that its been described as Military SF, as opposed to fantasy
January 27th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Not just military SF but *exciting* military SF. As opposed to, you know, the other kind of military SF. The one where brigadiers sit around in a futuristic old people’s home swilling brandy and discussing their favourite campaigns.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Smelling faintly of cyberwee.
January 27th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Making massively racist comments while the young nurse tells them the war’s been over for decades.
January 27th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Then not recognising their own children when they come to visit. On jetpacks. From Venus.
January 27th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Remembering the old days when wars were fought with remotely controlled androids instead of the current clone soldiers.
January 31st, 2010 at 4:27 am
As someone who has read this book, I have to complain, as the scene on the cover… actually happens in the book. And yes, the dragon is shooting lightning, and no, the person on it’s back is not a ninja, but it’s rider/gunner (the dragons in the book cannot use their breath weapons without a human aiding it). The castle, however, is a castle/stone-built fortress. But, as the people who built it are at a WWI level of technology, and turreted walled forts were used up until WWI, we assume that it is built with ferroconcrete.
February 1st, 2010 at 10:51 am
Haha. Yea I do get the impression that some of the Baen writers do get to work quite closely with the artists. Pity it doesn’t seem to happy with too many out there.
I quite liked the idea of the rider being a ninja. And dragons in fantasy books have shot everything from their mouths at one stage. But dragons shooting electricity, hmmm, interesting and possibly renewable source of energy!
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:18 am
Electric blast dragons are old, old, old — very big in the seventies and eighties. I suppose they’re always new to someone….
May 20th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
This cover art is completely ridiculous.
Black dragons are supposed to breathe a line of acid. BLUE dragons breath lightning. Jeez!
May 24th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Lol : ) Good call Ralf.
May 27th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
Re:Reader’s comment
Given WWI equivalent era technology, you would expect some form of “Anti-dragon” countermeasures, though for example, lightning conductors, connected to earth at regular intervals, along the parapet, to dissipate electrical breath weapons, is clearly beyond the designer’s comprehension…
Needless to say, multiple belt fed machine guns, on high angle mounts are right out…
May 30th, 2013 at 4:08 pm
Electricity dragons… I wonder how many Watts one of those bad boy outputs!
May 30th, 2013 at 6:35 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_eel
Electric eel weighs up to 20kg and generates 500W shocks (500 volts at 1 amp).
If electric dragon weighs one tonne, that suggests 25kW per zap. Painful.
June 30th, 2015 at 8:00 am
Wow, Linda Evans co-wrote this book? That explains the many references to DYNASTY…
June 30th, 2015 at 11:17 am
“Is this where the costume party is? We brought streamers!”
January 20th, 2017 at 5:07 am
Hell hath no fury.
Baen hath no shame.
March 7th, 2021 at 12:18 am
This is supposed to be what ‘a woman scorned’ is like? Or is it that this is the best that Hell hath to offer and isn’t remotely like it?
And is ‘…exciting military SF’ the best pull-quote they had? It’s Baen, that’s like saying ‘contains many…. pages…with words’.
March 7th, 2021 at 12:44 am
@Tat Wood: maybe that’s a woman scorned riding the dragon?
March 8th, 2021 at 4:35 am
@Tat: mayhap Hell hath gone down in ferocity?
I didn’t even notice the pull-quote. Maybe those 3 words were all they could find that were good. “Exciting military SF… is presumably what this book was trying to be, but it falls short on all counts.”
March 8th, 2021 at 1:04 pm
Anne Hathaway with acting.