so I am going to hope and pray that it beats the generic cover it was cursed with
Ahahaha, there's a story behind that hilariously awful cover! It starts this way: "For reasons unknown to me Baen had in stock a piece of unused cover art by Alan Gutierrez [...] This was "recycled" onto WA by sending it back to the artist to paint the Miles-figure in the command chair. Jim Baen was at the time quite uncertain if a short hero was going to sell, so was happy that Miles's height would be ambiguous that way... My (female) editor assured me that the Elena-figure was also going to be better clothed, but for some reason that never happened" and gets slightly worse from there. :D
You can read it here, along with some other cover-story horrors, because it is apparently a trend for poor Lois that she has horrible luck with covers!
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Ahahaha, there's a story behind that hilariously awful cover! It starts this way: "For reasons unknown to me Baen had in stock a piece of unused cover art by Alan Gutierrez [...] This was "recycled" onto WA by sending it back to the artist to paint the Miles-figure in the command chair. Jim Baen was at the time quite uncertain if a short hero was going to sell, so was happy that Miles's height would be ambiguous that way... My (female) editor assured me that the Elena-figure was also going to be better clothed, but for some reason that never happened" and gets slightly worse from there. :D
You can read it here, along with some other cover-story horrors, because it is apparently a trend for poor Lois that she has horrible luck with covers!