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
Jan 30

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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: What can I say we keep on winning with man tigers… but how could we improve it I hear you ask? Dinosaurs! Lots of them! With swords and shields! They don’t even need to be anthropomorphic!
Published 2016

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Tagged with: anthromorphism • Baen Books • Bill Fawcett • cat people • dinosaur • Eric Flint • Jody Lynn Nye • Mercedes Lackey • S.M. Stirling • shields • shuriken of approval • Stephen Hickman • sword • teeth
Nov 04
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Frank Comments: What was that about Baen book covers being like shooting fish in a barrel? These two ladies are providing way too much exposed target below the waistline for pointy and edgy devices.
Published 1992

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Tagged with: author in the comments • Baen Books • big hair • booties • damsel • Haircut 100 • Larry Elmore • moon • puffy shirt • S.M. Stirling • Shirley M. Meier • sword • the no pants dance
Apr 03
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Tom Noir Comments: At last Jimmy Doohan gets a chance to have a story where HE’S the hero, instead of that bozo Bill Shatner!
Published 1997

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Tagged with: Baen Books • David Mattingly • explosions • floating head • font problems • frickin laser beams • James Doohan • mighty moustache • planets • S.M. Stirling • space • space ships • Starline Books • war • white number one
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
Aug 12
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We’ve both been talking this over and really there is one thing we need on our cover. A horrific font! Have it big, bold, blocky and have the ‘fought’ look like someone has tried to adjust the colour balance in photoshop and then forgot about it. For the rest, just have some women crawling out of the air vent shooting an android. But seriously, who cares about the artwork these days.

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Tagged with: Anne McCaffrey • Baen Books • Brainship series • cybernetics • font problems • glow • gun • Haircut 100 • once you see it • S.M. Stirling • space ships • Stephen Hickman
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