Mar 12
Art direction: The question is, what shouldn’t we have on the cover? Have a purple prince stabbing at a furry green wolfman with a couple of guys watching in the background.. one of them has to have four arms.
(Average: 8.39 out of 10)
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March 19th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
nice, there’s just so much going on in this picture my eyes can’t seem to focus on any one particular aspect of its terribleness (awesomeness)… i would NOT read that beast on a train
May 15th, 2010 at 6:55 am
That looks like a heck of a rave party.
June 7th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Amusingly, this is the least representative scene in the novel. It is a novel about covert infiltration, leading to a ground, air and space battle with futuristic technology (since it happens in the future).
The cover should obviously have what looks like a medieval fight between a werewolf and a prince.
June 8th, 2010 at 9:20 am
By Baen standards, this *is* covert.
June 8th, 2010 at 11:00 am
It’s a brilliant cover. Unfortunately not the best picture of it. I love the Pink Princes expression on his face, almost like he isn’t quite sure what the heck he is trying to kill. But might as well give it a go anyway.
December 19th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Cover later recycled for John McCain’s pamphlet “This Is What Our Military Will Look Like If We Allow Gays To Serve Openly.”
November 21st, 2013 at 4:32 pm
I just noticed that the title of this book is a palindrome.
MIND.
BLOWN.
January 24th, 2017 at 7:50 am
Must agree with Nix: no explosions, no outer space, no ridiculous guns. So it is covert for BAEN.
Thought at first the fellow in the background without supernumerary arms was playing the fiddle, supplying background music for the fight/rave.
April 22nd, 2017 at 10:15 pm
We few. We
“Pew-pew.” We
Thrust dirk. We
Smug smirk. We
Manly men. We
Shu-ri-ken. We
Cover books. We
Ruin Brooks.
😉
April 24th, 2017 at 12:20 am
Oh sweet, is it open mic night at GSS?!??
Let me dig out my old tone poems.
April 26th, 2017 at 1:00 am
snaps fingers
@TW: Was this before the “oh so shiny” tag existed?
February 1st, 2023 at 2:31 pm
This cover looks a lot like the time last summer when I had to get a raccoon out of my garage.
February 2nd, 2023 at 12:26 am
Huh.
I had to go look for a different photograph of this cover, as at first glance, this one makes it appear that the Purple-Bloused Swordsman has paused his swing at the Giant Green Bipedal Badger to squat and violently fart out the battle cry, “New York Times Best Seller!” And because this is a Baen cover of a John Ringo novel, that seemed entirely possible to me three minutes ago.
But no, that is not the Purple-Bloused Swordsman’s right leg, it is the Giant Green Bipedal Badger’s right leg. Apparently the Purple-Bloused Swordsman is a monopod and possesses only the single leg, and as he has overbalanced upon it after his wild cut at the Giant Green Bipedal Badger, it is his emergency red airbag of the fallen fencer that has deployed, and it is only incidentally labeled as “New York Times Best Seller.”
February 2nd, 2023 at 2:28 am
Whoo! Had to come of to this page and see what the chatter was about… I was not disappointed…
@JJYoyo – @GSS x-n and I are waiting for photos of the reenactment of this cover with said racoon…
February 2nd, 2023 at 3:05 am
Ever since ‘Tron: Legacy” I’ve been wating for de-ageing software to catch up with Milo O’Shea’s wish to do a sequel to ‘Barbarella.’
I ddn’t realse t would be a ‘Guardans of the Galaxy’ crossover.
February 2nd, 2023 at 5:05 pm
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Weef.
Weef who?
Weef you it eez always zees Baen covairs.
February 3rd, 2023 at 3:32 am
@Emster: I actually have video – NSFW with excessive profanity. I ain’t putting it on YouTube!