Dec 07
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JuanPaul Art Direction: What we’re looking for is a cover that seems to question the reader’s worthiness to buy this book. It should almost say, “Kid, what are doing here? Look at us: Cat Men in spacesuits with our own f-ing spaceship. Do you REALLY think you can handle this?”
Published 1990

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Tagged with: Baen Books • cat people • embossing • font problems • Jerry Pournelle • Larry Niven • Man-Kzin Wars • Poul Anderson • S.M. Stirling • space ship • spiffy uniform • Steve Hickman
Sep 07
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Matt Comments: I really love your site and have been hooked since your first cover.
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Published 2000
Thanks Matt! We love you too!
Well most of us do…

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • font problems • glow • Jerry Pournelle • Larry Niven • Lee MacLeod • monsters • Pocket Books • space ships • supernumerous limbs • WTF
Mar 28
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Tom Noir Comments: Naked cybernetic armed cat woman in an improbable pose bursting through a cover of shiny 3D fonts? This is what happens when cover designers play Bingo. This cover is SO shiny that the camera couldn’t quite deal with it. Pretty much everything that looks black is actually highly-reflective chrome.
Published 1998

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Baen Books • cat people • cybernetics • devil's dumplings • font problems • Good Show Sir • Greg Bear • gun • handguns • Jerry Pournelle • Larry Niven • Man-Kzin Wars • once you see it • S.M. Stirling • shiny oh so shiny • space sheep • Stephen Hickman • WTF
Oct 02
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I need sci-fi mixed in with something suggestive! Yeah baby!! I am talking about tight space suits that make you wonder how they ever got into them. Huge racks and huge packs, if you know what I mean! Guns shaped suggestively like a… you know… *giggles* Whatever you do don’t mess it up with something like giving the women a perm. Are you listening to me?

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Tagged with: Baen Books • bubble helmet • cleavage • computers • damsel • dude • frickin laser beams • Haircut 100 • ill-fitting spacesuit • Jerry Pournelle • Larry Elmore • moon • once you see it • planets • shuriken of approval • space • suggestive • super soakers
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