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dreamer_easy) wrote2008-12-31 09:10 am
dreamer_easy) wrote2008-12-31 09:10 am
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Flame Tiger Throwdown
Dear Cracked.com,
Regarding your recent item, The Best (Worst) Fantasy & Science Fiction Book Covers:
1. The war between jocks and nerds is over. The nerds won. Try to keep this in mind.
2. Now, let me see. What section of your audience is most likely to be interested in an item on F&SF book covers? Could it be F&SF readers? The people you unimaginatively insult at the top of the article?
3. For an article about bad specfic book covers, surely a limitless source of material, you spend an awful lot of time making jokes about the titles, the taglines, the (presumable) content, etc. In fact, most of the covers are merely a bit crummy.
3a. Although the cover of Raven 3: The Frozen God deserves some sort of award for terribleness.
4. There are half a dozen genuine lols in the article, so it's still worth a glance, but geez. Must do better.
No love,
- Kate
Regarding your recent item, The Best (Worst) Fantasy & Science Fiction Book Covers:
1. The war between jocks and nerds is over. The nerds won. Try to keep this in mind.
2. Now, let me see. What section of your audience is most likely to be interested in an item on F&SF book covers? Could it be F&SF readers? The people you unimaginatively insult at the top of the article?
3. For an article about bad specfic book covers, surely a limitless source of material, you spend an awful lot of time making jokes about the titles, the taglines, the (presumable) content, etc. In fact, most of the covers are merely a bit crummy.
3a. Although the cover of Raven 3: The Frozen God deserves some sort of award for terribleness.
4. There are half a dozen genuine lols in the article, so it's still worth a glance, but geez. Must do better.
No love,
- Kate
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As regards your point 1, though, that's kind of like saying that the war between the Republicans and the Democrats in America is over and the Democrats won. As long as there are jocks and nerds, there will be people like the weasels on this site trying to set them against each other for the sheer hell of it, and sometimes they'll succeed. The simple fact is that the world needs both, and they need to work together. To. Put aside their ancient. Differences and join in the. Fight to build a new. World, a better. World, in which--I'm sorry, I seem to be channelling a very bad impression of William Shatner here. Anyway, you get the idea.
Yes, there's some bad art there, but at least one of those was a Frazetta (the one with the polar bears, I think).
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I got a couple pages in and was just far too amused by the title for Jack Vance "Servants of the Wankh". In my defence, I've not been well and have had very little sleep over the past week and a bit (and it is currently after midnight here). :)
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