Jul 04
Tom Noir’s Art Direction:
“Great, John, you’re here, come see the cover we’ve whipped up for Soldiers vs. Dinosaur Space Centaurs!”
“Uh, my book is just called ‘Soldiers’.”
“Ermmmmm… have you considered adding some dinosaur space centaurs to it?
Published 2001
July 4th, 2014 at 10:20 am
See also these other exciting Baen titles:
– GUNS
– WAR
– BOMBS
– EXPLOSIONS
– FURRIES
July 4th, 2014 at 10:23 am
Definitely not a fair fight.
July 4th, 2014 at 10:44 am
A centaur in a dinosaur mask – no wonder his Buzz Lightyear toy got scared
July 4th, 2014 at 10:56 am
This is what Jerry sees when he closes his eyes at night. Topless dinosaur glued to a horse.
July 4th, 2014 at 12:23 pm
There is no sense of proportion at all. Are those ships in orbit about 5m above the planet’s surface? Are the soldiers and dinocentaur continents tall? What is that plankton thing at dinocentaur’s backside, and how big is it to everything else? Why do the warriors have heat vents on everything, including their bottoms? This is nothing shy of a 10/10 and a merciful punch in the face.
July 4th, 2014 at 12:41 pm
Just looking at how that spacesuit/battle armor is drawn…it should be physically impossible to move at the right hip.
July 4th, 2014 at 12:56 pm
‘In the very best of taste.’
–Little Lies
July 4th, 2014 at 2:32 pm
Is “Rave Reviews” even a thing? Try googling it. Is Baen just slapping any quote they want on the cover and calling it a “rave review”? Couldn’t they just yell down the hall and get Eric Flint or John Ringo to say ” an outstanding science fiction novelist!”
July 4th, 2014 at 3:32 pm
This would be a lot more appealing if there was a COUPON INSIDE.
July 4th, 2014 at 4:12 pm
I’m loving the 1976 Lyons Maid ice-lolly lettering. It’s almost as if they were trying to make you think you’d seen the screen version of this story, starring Peter Cushing and Doug McClure.
July 4th, 2014 at 4:16 pm
The reason why real aliens have not let themselves be known to us is that they happened to see this book. It was warning enough.
July 4th, 2014 at 5:10 pm
Care of Goodreads: Long and a bit boring, overfocused in religion. That’s exactly what I felt looking at the cover, with the dinocentaur as the Gnostic Unio Mystica and the soldiers as Saint Augustine and Saint Jerome, respectively.
July 5th, 2014 at 7:19 am
The first thought in the mind of every Baen book: “Should I kill the alien or not?”
July 5th, 2014 at 8:32 am
Lovely how the Baen logo seems to come squirting out of the Soldier’s backside.
July 5th, 2014 at 12:53 pm
@A.R.: I must respectfully disagree. If the alien has visible nipples, she can live for as long as she exposes them. 😐
Say, why is an energy weapon causing blood to erupt from the dinocentaur? Wouldn’t it cauterise the wound at once?
July 7th, 2014 at 1:02 pm
It´s got ears. For some reason I find a velociraptor-centaur with outer ears way more disturbing than you average ear-less velociraptor-centaur.
July 7th, 2014 at 3:16 pm
Spacesuit designed by LEGO.
July 7th, 2014 at 3:18 pm
Ugh, I hate it when space rifles have those old school electrical fuses, they’re such a bitch to replace.
July 9th, 2014 at 8:24 pm
I’m convinced Baen is taking the piss. Why else would that arrow in the logo be pointing right at LEGO guy’s tuchus?
July 10th, 2014 at 10:58 pm
Actually, its kind of disturbing how often Baen’s logo ends up in close proximity to some cover character’s rear end.
July 10th, 2014 at 10:59 pm
Maybe we need a new tag: “Butt Baen”
July 12th, 2014 at 2:08 pm
At least, Rave Reviews is a less generic title than The Book Review.
July 14th, 2014 at 1:33 pm
What happens when the editors of Rave Reviews come across a book they don’t like??
July 21st, 2014 at 4:33 am
@Tom Noir. No doubt they rave about how much they hate it. The real question, I think, is what they do when they merely feel neutral about a book.
July 21st, 2014 at 9:39 pm
Maybe it’s not “Rave” as extremely-positive”, maybe it’s “Rave” as in stark-raving-mad?
July 21st, 2014 at 9:40 pm
Or, they mostly focus on reviewing rave concerts and this whole literary thing is just a sideline…
July 21st, 2014 at 10:04 pm
@ScottB: that would explain the font.
/me is listening to: Rave Reviews, ‘Dinosaur Jr. vs Sheena Mary “Horse” McDonald Mashup, Feel the Pain Shake This Mountain’, 6:03 @ 192 kbps
September 7th, 2014 at 3:43 pm
“Anyone up for a game of darts?”
Oh, is that “Author of The Regiment” supposed to make you buy the book? Are official military chroniclers/PR-guys really that good as writers? Or is that a weight-loss program?
April 3rd, 2016 at 4:26 pm
“An outstanding science fiction novelist. If this were science fiction, that would mean something.”