Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:44:28 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: All in the mind behind the eye of the beholder.... Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> >StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 02/03/03 10:35AM > The ambitiously indefatigable Mr. Michael Walsh says that Baen >covers do not interest him. Well, the question is why not? Are you not >interested in Baen because you are not interested in the story or = sub-genera >of a given book, or is there something intrinsic to a **Baen** cover that >lowers your endorphin level? You're implying the latter... which, if = true, >would be an interesting medical discovery. > Covers are, in theory, a way for the publisher to save atleast a 1000 = words of copy. & yes, the particular sub-genra that Baen is so assidously mining, = Military Skiffy, holds very little interest to me. As for the endorphin level, though I have yet to go "Aieeeeeee" and drop a = book like a hot piece of camel dung, there are many a time I go . . = ."sigh". Anyway, the great thing of the SF field is that it is a Very Big Tent, = with many many rings in it. mjw