Nov 15
Good Show Sir Comments: I bet the fans are “queued” up for this!
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 2021
Good Show Sir Comments: I bet the fans are “queued” up for this!
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 2021
November 15th, 2023 at 12:28 pm
Billie Eilish cover album.
November 15th, 2023 at 2:37 pm
Okay, what joker photoshopped a Baen logo on this?
November 15th, 2023 at 2:59 pm
I am a little disappointed that the illustrator left off the horse and the mountain lion in the lineup along the top.
Otherwise, this is a 10 for strong connection to the actual story within the cover. Even if Penric looks a little…pert…here.
November 15th, 2023 at 3:19 pm
Tintin: the Mid-Life Crisis Years.
November 15th, 2023 at 3:42 pm
@Tat: Ha! GSS. He no longer has Snowy around to dog laugh/give him side eye for the new ‘do.
November 15th, 2023 at 4:01 pm
Also, this is one of those covers where you would end up using the entire bag to improve it with googly eyes.
https://forreadingaddicts.co.uk/news/improving-book-covers-with-googly-eyes/
November 15th, 2023 at 4:40 pm
Old Man Tintin and the Unnerving Octuplets.
@Emster: I imagine Captain Haddock would also have something to say on his style choices if he were still alive.
November 15th, 2023 at 6:31 pm
@Ryan: I was scrolling the googly covers, saw Orange is the New Black and my mind immediately went here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTc3PsW5ghQ
yep yep yep
November 15th, 2023 at 11:13 pm
These are actually really good stories, with lots of humor, set in a vivid world. So leave it to GSS’ “favorite” publisher to do a boring, drab cover. One almost longs for bright colors and explosions.
@fred: GSSxn makes the sign of the cross
@Tor: We wish.
@Ryan: Definitely needs the horse and big cat. I guess they were too amusing for this cover. And I had the same thought about the depiction of Penric. He’s not actually…pert. Most of the googly eye covers are improved
@Tat, @Emster: GSS! Yep yep yep.
Anyway, these are definitely worth reading, but get the ebooks which aren’t by this publisher. Tasteful covers (not that it matters in ebook) and no money going to the fashies.
November 16th, 2023 at 12:56 pm
Penric wins his bet that there is too a dafter haircut than a man bun and leaves the hipsters seething angrily behind their landscaped microbeards..
December 9th, 2023 at 11:40 am
“Yes, I am the author of Lois McMaster Bujold. Just call me National.”
December 9th, 2023 at 11:41 am
But which nation…??
:-S
December 10th, 2023 at 3:04 am
“I insist. Mr. National is my father.”
Which country do you think GSS’ “favorite” publisher means? They refuse to acknowledge any other.
That, and you can’t buy their books outside North America…and I’m not sure how excited Canada is about them.
December 10th, 2023 at 4:41 am
Can’t speak for everyone north of the 49th Parallel, but I do get excited when I spy a book spine with that very special logo and find that the cover does not disappoint… GSS treasure hunting at its best.
December 11th, 2023 at 12:06 am
Okay, so I need new glasses and better caffeination. Didn’t mean to post so BOLDLY (she said swiftly).
Please replace with “I insist. Mr. Bestseller is my father.”
But I guess the BOLD is appropriate for this publisher, right? Since we can usually hear their covers. Even if this one is tasteful by their standards.
I guess our EU friends have to make due with J’ai Lu.