Hayakawa's neat...

[seawasp]

I haven't yet seen or heard anything on GCA yet (why should I, it's only been a month or two since the deal was done, and I'd figure the translation alone will take several months), but while trying to figure my way around a site in a language I can't read, I DID come across Sarah Hoyt's Darkship Thieves/Dark Ship entry, and the cover certainly looks kickass.

ETA: The link I used got changed, so I found a hard-link to the actual cover JPG.

So I'm keeping my fingers crossed for both an excellent translation and a buttkicking cover. I love the original cover for GCA, make no mistake, but I look forward to seeing what the Japanese decide to do for it; I'm hoping for an anime-manga style translation of the imagery, sort of the way Weber's Honor Harrington novels ended up (here's the one for Honor Among Enemies).

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Re: Why do *none* of these artists read the description of treecats?

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No wonder no-one's tried. Thanks for the descriptions. I definitely will have to give it a go.

Now, we don't want to risk eye contact with the Maelkodan, but maybe there's photos of them - any more detail on the head?

The Magon...

So...double trumpet, is that a trumpet within a trumpet, or two trumpets next to each other or back to back?

I'm sort of envisioning a cornucoepia inside a cornucoepia here but I could be completely off base. Where does the mouth of the trumpet face?

Is that head armed with grasping talons?

You know...that's a *pretty darn good* last-ditch defense.

Re: Why do *none* of these artists read the description of treecats?

[seawasp]

Two curving trumpets little end to little end, like a pair of cow horns except in a trumpet or curved wineglass shape. Like this, sorta:

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Yes, grasping talons around a sort of lamprey-like mouth; sort of like the things around the Predator's mouth. Though it's all made of living rock of different colors, etc.

Yeah, an 80-foot long rock-centipede-dragon is formidable, and the fact that it projects electromagnetic waves that blind the Nomes and heat metal (using that crystalline antenna) doesn't help. I wrote that scene SPECIFICALLY to give Baen a perfect Baen Cover Moment, since it provided a completely and utterly justified reason that the main female character had stripped to her underwear and advanced to within 20 feet of a huge semi-draconic monstrosity to do acoustic battle with it in this exotic cavern setting. Instead, we got Boris Karloff.