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
Dec 11
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Good Show Sir Comments: Breaking News from Baen Books! Our esteemed colleagues at Baen have released an Advanced e-Reader’s Copy of the latest installment in the wildly popular Man-Kzin Wars series and we’d like to be one of the first to give them all the free publicity they can stand.
Lately we have been made to realize that some of us at Good Show Sir have been a bit harsh on the Baen enterprise (looking at you, ex-Noob 😄 ). Some Baen honchos believe we go too far in featuring so many splendid and, I must admit, VERY COMPETENT WORKS OF ART done by their artist minions on a weblog with the temerity to feature the byline “Only the worst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers”. C’mon guys, you know that by “terrible” we mean “awesome”. Get on fleek with how the kids are slangin’ these days.
We give a tip-of-the-bowler-hat to today’s featured cover artist Steve Hickman. What can we say but IT IS GOOD ART. Not some Unknown Artist Institute™ knock-off. In fact, one might expect to see this hanging in some tony Soho art gallery, except that, you know, it’s a cat-person portrait and all that. But the talent is there for all to see. He looks so real you can almost smell him!
So anyway people, check out Man-Kzin Wars XV! That’s number XV! If they are numbering them like Super Bowls you know they got to be good. Buy more Baen Books! Our future here at GSS depends on far-sighted publishers like Baen keepin’ the faith.
–GSS Admin
[P.S. to our friends at Baen. Don’t feel that sending us free swag like new books and single-malt whiskey is a violation of our Code of Ethics!]
#BeBest

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Tagged with: Baen Books • Brad R. Torgersen • Brendan Dubois • cat people • font problems • Hal Colebach • It's Howling Time! • Jason Fregeau • Jessica Q. Fox • Larry Niven • Man-Kzin Wars • Martin L. Shoemaker • Steve Hickman • throne
Mar 15
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Tom Noir’s Art Direction: “This cover is a work of art! A triumph! Baen’s crowning achievement! And to celebrate gentlemen, I give you: collectible miniature figurines!”
Published 1990

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Tagged with: Baen Books • big gun • bladed weapons • cat people • Dean Ing • font problems • Larry Elmore • Man-Kzin Wars
Aug 15
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Dead Stuff with Big Teeth’s Art Direction: Tinfoil! Tinfoil is the future, my dear boy! Look, see how I look when I wear it as a hood. Now paint me on the rest of the roll, but as if I were a one-dimensional tigerman. And how the money rolls in!
Published 1994

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Tagged with: anthromorphism • Baen Books • Donald Kingsbury • font problems • Gregory Benford • Larry Niven • Man-Kzin Wars • Mark O Martin • shiny oh so shiny • Stephen Hickman • teeth
Feb 10
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Rachel and Thomas Comment: There are fourteen of these now. Apparently, the reading public cannot get enough of these magnificent hissing catmen and their high-cut thonged armoured leotards festooned with Rob Liefeld pouches. And who can blame us?
Published 2013

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Tagged with: +1 Protection from Spelling • aeroplanes • Alex Hernandez • anthropomorphism • Baen Books • cat people • crotch armor • explosions • font problems • frickin laser beams • Good Show Sir • Hal Colebatch • Jessica Q. Fox • Larry Niven • Man-Kzin Wars • Matthew Joseph Harrington • war
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
Nov 02
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Hey man! Oh, everyone else is out getting dip, but sit down. Oh … For that cover, I was thinking man-tigers, multiple. Standing beside a glorious master man-tiger encased in some sort of strange uncomfortable looking weapon suit. Thoughts? Yeah, of course we can get the others to pick up some Chinese food.

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Baen Books • frickin laser beams • Hal Colebatch • It's Howling Time! • Larry Niven • Man-Kzin Wars • orange number ten • space ships • Stephen Hickman • tiger people
Aug 21
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Hey guys, well I have the chips, beers, d20’s, cigars ….. and so I told them for the cover just put a large cybernetic cat man pondering meanly into the distance whilst standing in the midst of an exploded wasteland. *coughs* Why are you looking at me like that? …. Oh right, I forgot the dip!

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Baen Books • cat people • crotch armor • cybernetics • fire • Good Show Sir • gun • Hal Colebatch • It's Howling Time! • Larry Niven • Man-Kzin Wars • orange number nine • Paul Chafe • Poul Anderson • Stephen Hickman
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