Cantabile Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 You guys have no idea how weird I feel hearing "Tchaikovsky" refer to a fantasy author. *goes back to the classical music cave from which he came* :leaving: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guinevere Seaworth Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 I like the Tchaikovsky cover. Is that meant to be Tynisa in the Darakayon?I was thinking the exact same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 From Baen:Loose Cannon by David Drake.Ghost Ship by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller.From Solaris:Dangerous Waters by Juliet E. McKenna.The Recollection by Gareth L. Powell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordwalker Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 From Baen:Loose Cannon by David Drake.Ghost Ship by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller.Those are very bad. Someone should lose their job over putting those covers on books. Is that a .38 Special? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidan Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Those are very bad. Someone should lose their job over putting those covers on books. Is that a .38 Special?Have you seen Baen's other covers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Yeah, these two were the best ones from the Summer 2011 catalog. Typical Baen covers look like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Yeah, these two were the best ones from the Summer 2011 catalog. Typical Baen covers look like this.If you say 'Baen' enough times, Stego will turn up and magnificently eviscerate them ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordwalker Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Yeah, these two were the best ones from the Summer 2011 catalog. Typical Baen covers look like this.Whoa..........that's.......very wrong.Is he somebody important's son, or does he give his art away for free, or do work with charites? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korr Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Yeah, Baen covers have been wretched for years, but that's okay 'cause they usually match the writing! *ba-dum tish*But in all seriousness, they do publish some amazingly awful and awful-looking stuff.Regards,Ryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantabile Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 With so many talented, unemployed artists out there, how are atrocities like this even possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidan Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 With so many talented, unemployed artists out there, how are atrocities like this even possible?I get the sense that Baen has a very, very particular audience who like to spend a lot of money on a very particular type of novel with a very particular type of cover. I ran into one of those consumers once at a bookstore. He extolled the virtues of David Weber for 30 minutes. It wasn't pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 Btw, Voyager are reissuing Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana, A Song for Arbonne, The Last Light of the Sun, Sailing to Sarantium, Lord of Emperors and The Lions of Al-Rassan in February 2011, alongside the paperback of Under Heaven. They should be unveiling the new covers imminently.It looks like Voyager are using the current US/Canada covers:TiganaA Song for ArbonneSailing to SarantiumLord of EmperorsUnder Heaven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 Vampire Warlords by Andy Remic.Theme Planet by Andy Remic.Black-and-white US cover art from the new Random House catalog:Embassytown by China Miéville.City of Ruin by Mark Charan Newton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beniowa Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 It looks like Voyager are using the current US/Canada covers:TiganaA Song for ArbonneSailing to SarantiumLord of EmperorsUnder HeavenFor the most part, GGK seems to have good luck with cover artists. There have been very few of his I've seen that aren't decent to great.Black-and-white US cover art from the new Random House catalog:Embassytown by China Miéville.City of Ruin by Mark Charan Newton.The Mieville is okay, though I suspect it'll look better in color.City of Ruin is actually a fair step up from the pathetically dull US version of Nights of Villjamur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 From Tor:Shadow Chaser by Alexey Pehov.Lady-Protector by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.Up Against It by M.J. Locke.The Sea Thy Mistress by Elizabeth Bear.Hellhole by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (US cover). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 The Sea Thy Mistress by Elizabeth Bear.Wow, that is righteously bad. A two-headed flying elk with a full rack of antlers on both? How often does the rider have to untangle them? Is that He-Man's sword? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Battle in the Dawn by Manly Wade Wellman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beniowa Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Wow, that is righteously bad. A two-headed flying elk with a full rack of antlers on both? How often does the rider have to untangle them? Is that He-Man's sword?To be fair, there was a two-headed flying elk on the covers of the first two books in this series, but they weren't nearly as bad as this one. Looks like they went with a different artist for this one. Someone who was a little high on the kool aid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switchback Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Battle in the Dawn by Manly Wade Wellman.sweet mother of god, i have GOT to read that book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordwalker Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 To be fair, there was a two-headed flying elk on the covers of the first two books in this series, but they weren't nearly as bad as this one. Looks like they went with a different artist for this one. Someone who was a little high on the kool aid.By the Power Of GraySkull!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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