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Originally Posted by ereadingdotcom
I have to admit, I'm kind of old school. And I'm a fan of David Mattingly's artwork. So I don't know that I consider all of Baen's covers particularly bad; although they are very 80's in style.
And Lois Bujold is an amazingly talented writer and a nice person. I'd also call her not particularly right-wing at all, to say the least.
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Pretty much all US SF covers look garish from this side of the Atlantic.
A while ago, someone posted the original cover of Farewell Horizontal by KW Jeter, and I was amazed to see that it still looked garish to me even though it was exactly the same image as my UK version, simply because it used a different text style for the title. The Baen ones are pretty pulpy, though.
I'd say Bujold is a special case, and obviously not all Baen writers are going to fit that description, but it seems like a fair assessment of the editorial ethos.