Showing posts with label Artwork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artwork. Show all posts

Nov 1, 2011

Cover art for John Scalzi's Redshirts



Via A Dribble of Ink

I have been meaning to read something by Scalzi for a while now, and Redshirts seems just the thing. The cover is absolutely fantastic, evoking just the right blend of geekiness and 60s style SF.

Also, alternative covers, courtesy of Tor:


Oct 23, 2011

Cover art for Subterranean's edition of Brent Weeks' Perfect Shadow



Perfect Shadow is an eBook novella set in Weeks' Night Angel world, and now Subterranean is releasing it in limited edition form. Raymond Swanland's art is absolutely gorgeous. It almost makes me want to buy it, even though I haven't read any of Weeks' work yet.


In other news, sorry for the lapse in posting. Life has been hectic and there hasn't been anything major enough to post about. Will do better, promise!

Oct 2, 2011

Artwork and sinopses for two Daniel Abraham books

Via A Dribble of Ink



War casts its shadow over the lands that the dragons once ruled. Only the courage of a young woman with the mind of a gambler and loyalty to no one stands between hope and universal darkness.

The high and powerful will fall, the despised and broken shall rise up, and everything will be remade. And quietly, almost beneath the notice of anyone, an old, broken-hearted warrior and an apostate priest will begin a terrible journey with an impossible goal: destroy a Goddess before she eats the world.




We are not alone.

The alien protomolecule is clear evidence of an intelligence beyond human reckoning. No one knows what exactly is being built on Venus, but whatever it is, it is vast, powerful, and terrifying.

When a creature of unknown origin and seemingly impossible physiology attacks soldiers on Ganymede, the fragile balance of power in the Solar System shatters. Now, the race is on to discover if the protomolecule has escaped Venus, or if someone is building an army of super-soldiers.

Jim Holden is the center of it all. In spite of everything, he’s still the best man for the job to find out what happened on Ganymede. Either way, the protomolecule is loose and Holden must find a way to stop it before war engulfs the entire system.

CALIBAN’S WAR is an action-packed space adventure following in the footsteps of the critically acclaimed Leviathan Wakes.


The second Dagger and Coin novel and Leviathan Wakes' sequel. Both covers are not finalized, but I think they both look awesome! Haven't read the first part of either series though, so can't get excited yet.

Sep 26, 2011

New UK cover art for Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shadows of the Apt





Via The Wertzone.

Apparently Tor UK will publish those new covers next year. I am not sure I like them. They are flashy, but the character arts are a bit kitsch. And as usual no recognizable characters could be discerned. The artists keep making everyone in Tchaikovsky's world look like a Marvel Comics superhero alien elf robot...

Sep 14, 2011

Cover art for Joe Abercrombie's Last Argument of Kings



Definitely not my favorite cover of the trilogy, but looks pretty nice. You can pre-order on Subterranean's website.

Sep 2, 2011

Cover art and synopsis for Stephen King's The Wind Through The Keyhole



Via A Dribble of Ink

For readers new to The Dark Tower, THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE is a stand-alone novel, and a wonderful introduction to the series. It is a story within a story, which features both the younger and older gunslinger Roland on his quest to find the Dark Tower. Fans of the existing seven books in the series will also delight in discovering what happened to Roland and his ka tet between the time they leave the Emerald City and arrive at the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis.

This Russian Doll of a novel, a story within a story, within a story, visits Mid-World’s last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.) Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt ridden year following his mother’s death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a “skin man,” Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast’s most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, “The Wind through the Keyhole.” “A person’s never too old for stories,” he says to Bill. “Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.” And stories like these, they live for us.


My god, that's a beautiful cover! As for the book itself, I have no opinion as I haven't even finished the original Dark Tower series, not to mention I don't even remember well enough the books I have read from it. A reread perhaps?

Jul 25, 2011

Limited edition of A Dance with Dragons



Subterranean announced their limited edition of Martin's fifth ASoIF book. More info here.

Personally, I find the artwork devastatingly uninspired, but we'll see when the finished cover shows up.

Jul 15, 2011

The dwarves of The Hobbit


Oin and Gloin


Fili and Kili


Bombur, Bifur and bofur


Nori, Ori and Dori


Found those over at A Dribble of Ink. A colorful bunch, no doubt, but I am more interested in the dragon myself. I wonder if they'll show it to us prior to the second movie's release.

Jun 28, 2011

Cover art for Hannu Rajaniemi's The Fractal Prince



The Quantum Thief has been getting some very big praising and is high on my "to read" list. Here is the cover for the US edition of its sequel, The Fractal Prince. And just like the first book, it looks positively gorgeous!

Jun 26, 2011

Cover art for Philip K. Dick's Adjustment Team



The artwork for Philip Dick's Adjustment Team - volume two of Subterranean's new project to collect his short stories. Looks a little... ugly...

Apr 25, 2011

Full cover of Stephen King's 11/22/63



Stephen King's next. I haven't been following his work for a while, but this particular novel seems really interesting, and I might give it a shot. Here's the synopsis:

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King's heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination - a thousand page tour de force.

Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another moment - a real life moment - when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history.

Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students - a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.

Not much later, Jake's friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane - and insanely possible - mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake's new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.

A tribute to a simpler era and a devastating exercise in escalating suspense, 11/22/63 is Stephen King at his epic best.

Apr 24, 2011

Full cover of Jon Sprunk's Shadow's Lure



Pyr has released the full cover of Jon Sprunk's Shadow's Lure, sequel to his 2010 debut Shadow's Son (Review), which I found underwhelming, but still a fun enough read to make me want to know what happens next. As for the cover itself, it is not nearly as inspiring as the first book, but still - like almost everything Pyr publishes - very easy on the eyes. Here's the novel's synopsis:

The unforgiving Northlands . . .

In Othir, he was at the top of the food chain—an assassin beyond compare, a dark shadow in the night. But Caim left that life behind when he helped an empress claim her throne. And now his past has come calling again.

Searching for the truth behind the murder and disappearance of his parents, Caim discovers a land in thrall to the Shadow. Haunted by temptations from the Other Side, he becomes mired in a war he does not want to fight.

But there are some things a son of the Shadow cannot ignore, and some fights from which he can’t run. In this battle, all of Caim’s strength and skill won’t be enough. For none can resist the Shadow’s Lure.

Shadow's Lure is out in June.

Apr 14, 2011

UK cover for Terry Pratchett's Snuff



UK cover for the upcoming next Discworld novel, due October 13. I used to be a humongous fan of Terry Pratchett's work, devouring every new book he wrote with religious zealotry. Then, around the time of Monstrous Regiment, I just... wasn't anymore. I still have nothing but fuzzy feelings towards the guy, but I am just not terribly interested in his novels, and my every attempt to read some of his newer ones has been met with a shameful failure. Still, one can hope, and the cover is pretty damn awesome!

Apr 8, 2011

UK cover for Brandon Sanderson's The Alloy of Law



In the style of all the other UK editions, as expected. It's really good looking, but I still prefer the more direct "fantasy art" US covers.

Mar 16, 2011

Cover art and synopsis of Brandon Sanderson's The Alloy of Law



Here is a first glimpse at the cover for Sanderson's upcoming Mistborn novel The Alloy of Law. It looks monochrome, so I guess it's not the final version. Bellow is the synopsis for the book. It's spoiler-free for those who haven't read or finished the original trilogy, and it seems to me that the novel will be in the style of The Final Empire, which translates as made of victory!

Three hundred yearsafter the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.

Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice. One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will.

After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.

Feb 24, 2011

Cover art for the Subterranean edition of Perdido Street Station



No idea how new this one is, but I find it utterly gorgeous, and as such - worthy of posting. This dust jacket, just like the inner illustrations, has been done by Edward Miller. Here is the page on Subterranean's site, although - sadly - the book is already sold out.

Feb 8, 2011

Cover art for the US paperback edition of Guy Gavriel Kay's Under Heaven



Kay is one of the writers I know I should be reading, but never seem to get around to doing it. I have read his Lions of Al-Rasan as well as the Fionavar Tapestry, but for whatever reason it's been years since I've picked up another book of his. Anyway, for all intents and purposes the comparison between the gorgeous hardcover and the new paperback edition should be in favor of the former, but for some reason I really like the color scheme for this one. It's very vivid and I think it will look great on the actual book.

Feb 6, 2011

Cover art for the US edition of Adrian Tchaikovsky's The Scarab Path



I still think that the US editions of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shadows of the Apt (published by Pyr) are way better looking than the UK version, not to mention the format is easier to read. So, on that note, here's the cover for The Scarab Path - book 5 in the series, and first in the second story-arc. Release date is April 2011.

Jan 25, 2011

Canadian cover art for The White Luck Warrior



This cover for R. Scott Bakker's The White Luck Warrior is rather horrible if you ask me, but if Canadians aren't pleased with the US and UK versions, it's their own choice, I guess... Btw, is it me, or has someone skipped the "The" in the title?