Apr 13
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Nix comments: This has an annoyingly shiny cover, so it may be hard to read its contents. It’s an anthology of four famous SF works: _2001_, _The Demolished Man_, _The Day of the Triffids_, and _I, Robot_. As you know, all of these contained city-sized giant mecha and huge explosions (although only two had the giant mecha dive-bombed by rocketships), so the cover is quite appropriate, and obviously is a fine piece of artwork: tasteful, yet subtle. I’m only sending it in because it’s so annoyingly shiny.
Many thanks to Nix!
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Tagged with: aeroplanes • Alfred Bester • Arthur C. Clarke • Chris Moore • explosion • giant • Isaac Asimov • John Wyndham • once you see it • robots • shiny • shiny oh so shiny • space ships • St. Michael
Apr 06
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I love the realism, so we’ll definitely have to get that on there. In fact I think we should tone it down a little. We’ll keep it simple so it’s not too bad (and almost like it’s creeping up on its prey) then WHAM! We’ll hit them with a gold black red title banner!
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Tagged with: Baen Books • explosion • font problems • Gary Ruddell • Lois McMaster Bujold • shoulder pads • shuriken of approval • space • space ships • Vorkosigan series
Mar 19
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Look, I am busy – what the hell do you want? Cover ideas? My god, man. You’re new here, right? Here’s the sheet, it has everything we need. Huge terrible multicoloured fonts, obligatory best selling author line and something like a women in a space suit looking generally awful. Don’t worry kid, you’ll pick it up soon enough. Then you’ll be one with us. Don’t run… don’t run…
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Tagged with: Baen Books • Bob Eggleton • bubble helmet • damsel • David Weber • font problems • planets • shuriken of approval • space • space ships
Feb 15
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Look, with this we’re in a win-win situation. How could we go wrong with a space ship going through some sort of light speed travel and the captain pointing at a huge shiny hologram of a person? Just as long as we keep the fonts subtle we’ll be fine.
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Tagged with: Baen Books • David Mattingly • David Weber • floating head • font problems • Honorverse series • once you see it • pointing • shiny oh so shiny • shuriken of approval • space • space ships
Feb 10
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You know what’s on the way back in terms of being considered manly? Pink! That’s right. So we’ll have a lot of it. And on top of that epic dose of man we’ll add more layers of manliness. A crewcut, a crossbow and most importantly a stomach wound. That’s one large slice of man-cake for your eyes.
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Tagged with: crossbow • dude • Joel Rosenberg • Metzada series • planets • space ships • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher • war • wounds
Feb 05
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You know what a book cover can never have enough of? That’s right chum, text. Lets fire as much on there as possible. And possibly some worm creature being attacked by guys with guns. But that’s secondary, no in fact it’s tertiary, to the fonts with their various marvelous colours and shapes.
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Tagged with: Ace Books • aliens • Dream Park series • font problems • gun • Larry Niven • once you see it • space ships • Steven Barnes • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Feb 01
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HOLY father of APOLLO! I have it, again! Cat people! Oh alright, we won’t have it just as bad as last time but we should have at least three of them. And some guy with a beard, and an alien city, and purple fonts that burn into your mind.
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Tagged with: alien city • anthropomorphism • Baen Books • beard-wielding • Bob Eggleton • cat people • Christopher Anvil • David Weber • Eric Flint • font problems • lynx people • moon • space ships
Dec 17
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Really… winning? Green? With a gold photoshop glow? Really? Well best add an exploding space ship in there too. Oh and some babe in a space suit completely ignoring the explosion. Hopefully that will distract from our winning colour.
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Tagged with: casually walking away from an explosion • damsel • Elizabeth Moon • explosion • Fred Gambino • Orbit Books • Serrano Legacy series • shoulder pads • space • space ships
Dec 11
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Guy sits uncomfortably on the tail of a space shuttle. Don’t forget huge shiny text. And we’ll have to quote another one of her books, something that will really appeal to those hardcore Sci-Fi readers. Oh oh! I know. Dragons of Pern. Ace!
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Tagged with: Anne McCaffrey • Ballantine Books • dude • font problems • Michael Whelan • shiny oh so shiny • space • space ships
Dec 04
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World gets destroyed by large alien disco balls firing lasers. Lasers that create nuclear explosions. Then we’ll have some women in a tight shirt, unbuttoned just enough to tease our readers. And like every other cover out there, she’ll be completely ignoring the fact that there is a mammoth nuclear explosion going off in the background. Women, eh?
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Tagged with: Baen Books • BEHIND YOU! • booties • bracers • casually walking away from an explosion • cleavage • damsel • explosion • frickin laser beams • gun • handguns • Hymn Before Battle series • John Ringo • metropolitan apocalypse • mushroom cloud • once you see it • Patrick Turner • rifle • scope • space ships
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