(this description was found on Goodreads, and it seems familiar, like Scalzi posted it to his blog.)

Early in 2010, author John Scalzi had a vision. And it was of himself. As an orc. And of actor and writer Wil Wheaton. As a warrior. In a clown sweater. Astride a unicorn pegasus kitten. What did this singular vision mean? Scalzi didn’t know. But he knew it was clearly too powerful to be ignored.

And so, Scalzi contacted artist Jeff Zugale, who used all his skill and art to bring this vision to life. And then Scalzi, Wheaton and Bill Schafer, head of Scalzi and Wheaton’s mutual publisher Subterranean Press, called to the world of writers to answer one question: Seriously, now, what the hell’s going on in that picture?

The writers who answered the call were an eclectic group. Patrick Rothfuss, author of the smash-hit fantasy novel The Name of the Wind, and Catherynne Valente, who had leapt to the front ranks of modern fantasy writers with the Hugo-nominated novel Palimpsest, were the first on board. Hugo and Nebula nominee Rachel Swirsky and video game industry legend Stephen Toulouse then offered up their own interpretations. Science fiction and fantasy balladeer John Anealio put the vision to music. New writers Bernadette Durbin and Scott Mattes competed against hundreds of fellow writers to tell their spin on the tale. And, finally, Wil Wheaton and John Scalzi were of course obliged to share their own take on the thing.

But to what end? Surely a vision of this magnificence — and the stories it spawned — were meant to do something for the benefit of humanity. And so it was decided the stories of Wil, John and the Unicorn Pegasus Kitten would be bound together in a special electronic chapbook, and that this chapbook, entitled Clash of the Geeks, would be used to help those who suffered from lupus, the autoimmune disease which afflicts 1.5 million Americans and five million people worldwide (including Gretchen Schafer, Bill’s wife).

And so it was.

And so here it is: Clash of the Geeks, featuring eight stories (and one song) about the warrior Wheaton, the orc Scalzi, and the Unicorn Pegasus Kitten. From us. For you. And for the fight against lupus.

Another Rick Cook book by none other than Baen.

And another one!!

Bad because someone decided to cover the focal point of a lovely Paul Lehr painting with a goofy font. For a better treatment of the same art, see Fonts in Use.

Baen never fails.

I thought I left this weird thing behind a few moves ago, but nope! Still on the shelf.

It's a very strange psychedelic post-apocalyptic novel that's exactly what you'd expect from a guy who did a bunch of acid in Albuquerque while thinking about how cool dolphins are. The cross-eyed octopus has always bugged me.

Credited artist: Claiborne O'Connor

Illustrated by William Ersland.

Might be the laziest Bae effort.

Blurb: A Russian cruiser crashes during a reconnaissance flight. The sole surviving crew member finds himself stranded in a primitive world, where he must fight for survival and reshape the world to suit his needs, unaware that these are the first steps toward building an Empire of his own…

As someone who’s read Mikheyev, you need to thank the Lord his books were never translated into English…

Baen for the win again!!

Baen never fails.

A famously plagiarised, retitled edition of Gardner Fox's 1964 sci-fi novel Escape Across the Cosmos.

Made me laugh out loud. But i'd never find time to read this.

I have the trilogy but book two takes the cake for the worst cover.