Nov 19
Good Show Sir Comments: This cover is so shiny that everything looks black unless you photograph it at the right angle. And then you notice that everything is embossed. The title is embossed. The authors are embossed. The car is embossed. The horse head is embossed. The fox-girl is embossed. It’s like bad cover art Braille for the blind.
Published 1994
November 19th, 2015 at 12:10 pm
Euch! Who left the dragon out in the hot sun? Now it’s all melty.
November 19th, 2015 at 12:16 pm
‘Thinking he has found his mate for life, rock-music playing and fast-driving mage Tannim finds his dreams complicated by her dragon father, her part-human-part-fox personality, and her apparent desire to kill him.’
Now, I would think that such issues would have come out on the first date.
November 19th, 2015 at 12:33 pm
Death Cab For Cutie
November 19th, 2015 at 12:36 pm
Driving Miss Foxy
The Memoir of a Mercedes lackey
by Larry Dixon
November 19th, 2015 at 1:10 pm
Grand Theft Auto or Grand Theft Dragon? Dodgy hairdoes for everyone, including the Dragon itself! A true masterpiece on its own embossed right. Should have been
‘a novel of the embossed edge’ instead of the serrated edge! Love it!
November 19th, 2015 at 1:29 pm
God bless you, Baen!
November 19th, 2015 at 1:32 pm
Dunno about SerrATed Edge… it just looks like the bottom corner’s been nibbled a bit.
November 19th, 2015 at 2:09 pm
For fox sake.
November 19th, 2015 at 3:01 pm
The figure looming over them is Pickle and Peanut’s chum, Champion Horse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ldtqPRfG70
November 19th, 2015 at 3:15 pm
Background music worthy O Bounteous Baen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blrHHRWKygw
November 19th, 2015 at 3:49 pm
@fred – Excellent soundtrack playing on that Mustang’s 8-track:
Jenny was sweet
She always smiled for the people she’d meet …
… Pick up your feet
Got to move to the trick of the beat
There is no elite
Just take your place in the driver’s seat
November 19th, 2015 at 3:56 pm
BREAKING NEWS: Alien Civilization 14 Lightyears Away Detects Flashing Lights From Baen Book Cover, Makes First Contact
November 19th, 2015 at 4:18 pm
@Tag Wizard – Other tunes playing on that 8-track:
Foxy Lady
Mustang Sally
A Horse with No Name
…
November 19th, 2015 at 4:45 pm
In all the shininess, the fact that the horse-headed dragon in back seems to have been warped by a space-time anomaly goes unnoticed.
November 19th, 2015 at 5:17 pm
Also available as a Serra Ted Talk.
November 19th, 2015 at 5:52 pm
@Fred: that’s certainly a cheesy enough song but the sheer 1987-ness of this cover (from, er, 1994) needs something that smells of hair-gel and with linn-drums and really squeaky synths.
These, for example, are the audio equivalents of an embossed Baen cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znPX1Pk5d8s (especially when he takes his shades off)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud6sU3AclT4
November 19th, 2015 at 9:25 pm
@Bibliomancer(4): How come a Mercedes lackey is spruiking Ford Mustang?
November 20th, 2015 at 10:47 am
@Tat Wood: Meanwhile Taylor Dane makes me think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCKIGmGxxmQ
November 20th, 2015 at 8:14 pm
Judging by the cover, this one should be named Rust Bucket.
Ser Ra Ted Edge? What is this, GoT?