Comments on: Mecha-Zoë is Coming to End You

By: Bozo the Clone

Bozo the Clone — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:51:27 +0000

Must be a cultural thing. Germans go for spaceships with speed streaks. Spanish go for chicks in battle armor. Must be a reaction against the old Don Quixote complex. What would DQ do with a Dulcinea like this?

By: Tim Miller

Tim Miller — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:08:08 +0000

I just finished Zoe’s Tale. Man! I love that book and this series. It sounded like you closed the door on this series and I want so much more. Any chance I can talk you into writing more about Zoe, the Obin and the Consu?

By: The Gray Area

The Gray Area — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:19:05 +0000

It seems to me that there are better ways for books to be illustrated. I think having an artist actually work with the subject matter might be nice. Style and design still needs to be based on an idea, so what’s wrong with working with the right idea? I would have gone with werewolves and teeage girls fighting to the death.

By: Latro

Latro — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:49:05 +0000

I like the Minotauro covers of Scalzi books, as they are pretty and flashy and look modern. But yes, not very much in relation to the book. In this case this is just because previous covers of the series were also not very much in relation to the books but showed soldiers in very high-teck robotic uniforms, so I guess they just said “same thing but with a woman face”

Still, better, IMHO, than the US SF style covers of “lets pretend its the sixties”.

By: Kasrkin

Kasrkin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:24:19 +0000

I wouldn’t really call that “post boob job”. They don’t look very big in that picture. B-cups at most. Really, the girl in the picture is, though a bit on the tall side, fairly realistically proportioned. For a female athlete or marine or something anyway.

Maybe they’re anticipating that John will start writing Warhammer 40k novels for the Black Library Imprint? Sigh. One can dream, anyway.

(they need more good authors, Dan Abnett cannot carry the entire line on his back forever…)

By: Shrike58

Shrike58 — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:45:55 +0000

Considering what the girl went through I wouldn’t be surprised if she developed a shock of gray hair like that.

By: Craig Ranapia

Craig Ranapia — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:22:47 +0000

I’d never really pictured Zoe as a post-boob job Borg Queen, and never want to again. Then again, it might be the kind of imagery that pushes all the right demographic buttons (and sets the cash registers alight) in Spain — in which case, mission achieved.

By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:48:46 +0000

Not unless the Spanish publishers actively re-wrote the book, which they’re not really allowed to do.

With soup! Or gazpacho, I suppose.

By: Tinker

Tinker — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:03:56 +0000

So, why doesn’t Zoe invest in little bits of Velcro that stick to her armor so she can secure those tabs hanging off the joints, so that some one doesn’t partially disrobe her? Or is it just not done (much the way kids dress now so that their clothes hang off them like poor black kids wearing hand me downs)? Um, is it possible that the shoulder pads are, some kind of assisted breathing apparatus? So she sounds more like Darth Vader (because thats how we all expect to sound, in the future)?

By: John Scalzi

John Scalzi — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:02:05 +0000

Well, no. Not unless the Spanish publishers actively re-wrote the book, which they’re not really allowed to do.