So yeah, just what it says on the subject line: I do not read Baen-published books.
And that's just ridiculous. Sure, it's understandable that I not read a particular author, but to avoid an entire publisher? Simply ridiculous.
And yet, I avoid Baen books like the friggin' plague.
I do have reasons, though. And they may or may not be good reasons.
The first reason is that their covers, damn near all of their covers, are repellant. And I do mean that literally. When I catch sight of one of their photo-realistic covers, I am pushed away by my aesthetic sense.
I do not like photo covers on books. They are wrong.
(It doesn't help if one of those covers has a cat on it either. When a cat is in a genre book, it is doubly wrong.)
Secondly: I am a big-time, tax-and-spend, why the hell do we need A gun much less a military, people should be allowed to marry their pets (except cats because cats are wrong and deserve no love) and then abort the chimeric child if they choose in a government-run hospital, controlled economy, liberal.
I gather from things I have read about Baen Books that many of its authors hold much the opposite view.
And . . . um. That's about it. Bad covers and rumors about authorial political viewpoint. Like I said, they may not be good reasons.
So: given this, do you good people believe that I would indeed enjoy a Baen book, if I could just avert my eyes from the cover and ignore that nagging feeling that only writers born before 1940 get to write positively about crypto-facists? Because I would like to try some Baen books, if only to know what the heck the rest of you are talking about.
Honor-what? Miles-eh? 16-huh?
So: help?
-murmur
And that's just ridiculous. Sure, it's understandable that I not read a particular author, but to avoid an entire publisher? Simply ridiculous.
And yet, I avoid Baen books like the friggin' plague.
I do have reasons, though. And they may or may not be good reasons.
The first reason is that their covers, damn near all of their covers, are repellant. And I do mean that literally. When I catch sight of one of their photo-realistic covers, I am pushed away by my aesthetic sense.
I do not like photo covers on books. They are wrong.
(It doesn't help if one of those covers has a cat on it either. When a cat is in a genre book, it is doubly wrong.)
Secondly: I am a big-time, tax-and-spend, why the hell do we need A gun much less a military, people should be allowed to marry their pets (except cats because cats are wrong and deserve no love) and then abort the chimeric child if they choose in a government-run hospital, controlled economy, liberal.
I gather from things I have read about Baen Books that many of its authors hold much the opposite view.
And . . . um. That's about it. Bad covers and rumors about authorial political viewpoint. Like I said, they may not be good reasons.
So: given this, do you good people believe that I would indeed enjoy a Baen book, if I could just avert my eyes from the cover and ignore that nagging feeling that only writers born before 1940 get to write positively about crypto-facists? Because I would like to try some Baen books, if only to know what the heck the rest of you are talking about.
Honor-what? Miles-eh? 16-huh?
So: help?
-murmur