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Shermpotter wrote:No matter the answer, I shall look forward to this endeavor!!

Armageddon (or to be more formal The Salavation War: Armageddon) only appears on SDN; its SDN's story just as the TBOverse tales are HPCA's story. However, Armageddon will be going into print in due course - in fact we need to start thinking about a cover design etc very shortly.

Stuart wrote:This also makes Heaven a much more dangerous opponent for humans; they could see Hell, knew what it was about and understood how it functioned very quickly. Heaven isn't like that at all.

The caveat I would add to that is that once a particular part of Heaven's been exploded thoroughly enough, we understand cratered rubble quite well.

I know this isn't what'll happen, but I envisage a Havokeff-style spread showcasing all the characters who have appeared in more than one chapter. You know, kind of like a 90's Batman movie poster

Well, what do you have in mind? We can see what is out there!

Stuart wrote:(amusingly, for all the ignorant wailing on places like spacebattles or SAHWI - who have yet to come up with a single viable and supportable objection to the technical or political content of the book - they missed the one serious technical howler in TBO)

I didn't catch it either. What was it?

So help me, if Havok gives Colonel Warhol a camel-toe... *shakes a fist*

Sadly, military-heavy fic usually works better with simple covers that give away almost nothing, like this.

Stuart wrote:

Shermpotter wrote:No matter the answer, I shall look forward to this endeavor!!

Armageddon (or to be more formal The Salavation War: Armageddon) only appears on SDN; its SDN's story just as the TBOverse tales are HPCA's story. However, Armageddon will be going into print in due course - in fact we need to start thinking about a cover design etc very shortly.

I'll be glad to edit Armageddon when the time comes for that, just like I edited all the TBO novels. Its quite a relaxing way to spend an evening. How's the word-count between your standard TBO novel and armagedoon stack up?

What do you actually end up doing during your relaxing evening?

fnord wrote:What do you actually end up doing during your relaxing evening?

Watch TV and edit a novel, with a bacon-tini for refreshment. Its a nice way to go about it.

tim31 wrote:Sadly, military-heavy fic usually works better with simple covers that give away almost nothing, like this.

I really think it'd need something that says 'this involves Satan getting shot in the face' on the cover, no matter how minimal it gets...

EDIT: I wonder, how well one could do a bronze trident broken and crushed into the mud/sand by a caterpillar-track track.

NecronLord wrote:

tim31 wrote:Sadly, military-heavy fic usually works better with simple covers that give away almost nothing, like this.

I really think it'd need something that says 'this involves Satan getting shot in the face' on the cover, no matter how minimal it gets...

Uh... I don't think Satan's going to get shot in the face. I'd like to see the Battle of the Dunes, personally.

CaptainChewbacca wrote:Uh... I don't think Satan's going to get shot in the face. I'd like to see the Battle of the Dunes, personally.

Again. I wasn't being literal. I mean it needs something that obviously says it has a 'supernatural' or 'infernal' tone. As opposed to normal war-fiction.

So not this then?

The scary thing is... I can see that as a Tom Clancy book cover.

Needs flames though.

There could be the basis of a good idea there. Replace the gray with black and flames, put a better picture of Satan's head in the scope and we have something to work with

I think you'd want Satan to be snarling angrily, and not actually looking right at you. Something like this:

That sort of Satan requires a sonic screwdriver, I'd think.

It'd be nice to have Satan to look sort of like a nightmare (as in Mike Wong's suggestion) but for him to also be recognizably human.

I enjoyed the Michael part greatly. I'm reminded of Good Omens, incidentally.

Looks like Yahweh is an addict as well. He seems rather unfocused, or was that description referring to Michael?

That's more like it! First hit on google images FTW.

Something like this perhaps? (The picture has to be public domain)/

Nice, though I'd switch fonts between 'Salvation War' and Armageddon. Maybe to some 'CLASSIFIED' military stamp font?

Stewart--I'd be happy to grammar-Nazi/edit the book as well if you'd like. Anything I can do to contribute, really!

Fleet Admiral JD wrote:Stewart--I'd be happy to grammar-Nazi/edit the book as well if you'd like. Anything I can do to contribute, really!

Back off, you! I edit the books! *throws chair, cracks whip*

Stuart wrote:Something like this perhaps? (The picture has to be public domain)

Unfortunately, that one isn't, it's 'Satan' from Doctor Who.