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Click for full imageLook, I am busy – what the hell do you want? Cover ideas? My god, man. You’re new here, right? Here’s the sheet, it has everything we need. Huge terrible multicoloured fonts, obligatory best selling author line and something like a women in a space suit looking generally awful. Don’t worry kid, you’ll pick it up soon enough. Then you’ll be one with us. Don’t run… don’t run…
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March 19th, 2010 at 10:38 am
Not the worst Baen cover we’ve seen. I am enjoying the teaser chapter though. If I ever write a book my first chapter will defiantly all be numbers and figures. Completely destroying the teaser chapter ideal!! mu hahahaha!
March 19th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
The Blown Fuse Of Tyranny has plunged the House of Life into darkness! Quick, fumble in the Kitchen Drawer of Bravery for the Torch of Freedom!
March 19th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
I get a space suit? Yaaay!
It makes me look like a one eyed locust? Oh.
December 16th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
That is like the book-cover equivalent of Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ.” I want to take a shower after seeing that.
December 19th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
And allow me to add that Huurrgll bleuurrrgghh.
December 20th, 2010 at 10:34 am
All right, I was being too hard on this cover.
I’ll give a good second look and find the deeper artistic qualities beneath the… the…
*BLEEUUUURRK*
April 18th, 2012 at 1:40 pm
aaaarrrrgh! it’s spelt womAn not womEn, unless there are more than one of them. Sorry but that persistent smelling pistake is getting on my nerves!
April 18th, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Hmm. Her eyes are slightly crossed. Clearly she is focused on some tiny scratch on her visor.
April 19th, 2012 at 11:38 am
Anne Hathaway is… SpaceCatWoman! A twist for the 21st Century!
June 24th, 2013 at 12:50 pm
Did you know? In the worlds of Weber, it’s possible to goose someone through a space suit!
June 29th, 2013 at 8:09 pm
When I first saw the title, I thought the book would be full of recipes for grilling. Kind of a disappointment, really.
June 30th, 2013 at 5:20 am
@random Donna 11— 🙂
July 2nd, 2013 at 6:30 pm
@random Donna 11–Best chuckle I’ve had today. I will be thinking of this when I light up the BBQ later.
August 9th, 2015 at 10:43 pm
‘Why are all the other women on Baen covers…stark nakers and armed…and I’m in a space suit…?’
August 10th, 2015 at 11:31 am
Damn you THX for spotting the resemblance to Anne Hathaway three years before me.
August 10th, 2015 at 12:22 pm
@David Cowie: I can only apologise. You dreamed a dream of making a Hathaway quip and I pre-emptively stomped on it.
December 16th, 2015 at 10:34 pm
“Includes Teaser Chapter From Another Book We Think Is Better!”
March 29th, 2020 at 11:31 pm
The Torch of Freedom is floating just under the BAEN logo. It’s a pen-torch. It’s absolutely not a toy sonic screwdriver. Honest.
March 30th, 2020 at 6:24 am
Torch? I will admit to a glowy spot on the end of it, but it looks to me more like she’s standing in front of a big cardboard poster of an outer space scene, and someone out of picture is about to poke her with a stick, possibly to remind her that it’s time for her line.
March 30th, 2020 at 7:27 pm
I think you’re both right.
She’s forgotten so many lines that the stage manager has become frustrated with cuing her, and has thrown their little penlight at her from off stage left whilst resigning.
It is the (mini) Torch of Freedom From This Damn Production.*
My first impression was that it’s a meteorite coming to hole her helmet. It really shouldn’t have been on the cover.
* I have AmDram’ed a bit. One show was so dire until right before it went up that the stage manager and I would mutter “Springtime” to each other at least once every rehearsal. Short for “Springtime for Hitler”. Small children running amok, leading man about their emotional age, and the sound effects guy said the name of The Scottish Play in the theater and came down with chicken pox 10 days before the show. Ended up all right; his brother replaced him and was much better, and the kids settled down and were adorable. I only dropped from exhaustion once.