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Originally Posted by Yapyap
One big exception is the sort of covers Baen goes for - as I read a fair bit of SF & adventure, I always feel like some of their authors might be to my taste but then I see their covers and I’m just instantly put off. There’s something about their house style that is the very opposite of appealing to me. Maybe because I’m a woman, or because I obviously didn’t grow up with the 1950s sort of pulp fiction, so there’s no nostalgy factor, but it’s just .. repulsive, heh.
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Same for me. OTOH, while I might dislike their covers, I've read some very good books from Baen (the Miles Vorkosigan series was one, for example - written by a woman, in fact. With really offputting covers.)