Wonderful. Great, crisp colours. Delightfully old school, but contemporary at the same time thanks to the sharp typeface. Love the pink letting on the spine. Absolutely can’t wait to get my hands on this!
I wouldn’t call the artwork itself a wrap-around, though; the back art looks like a zoom-in of the top half of the cover, but flipped around. (I think that’s not uncommon though usually it’s not flipped around like that.) Still–nice art! :-) Though I don’t care for the spine….
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Thats excellent cover art, very reminiscent of John Berkey but a more extreme viewpoint that keeps it up to date. I like Abrahams writing anyway but this piques my interest even more.
I’m afraid my reasons are quite selfish. This book got some of its inspiration from a d20 Future game that was moderated by an online buddy of mine, and I played a character in it, the pilot in fact, so it’s only natural that I’d vote for it, of course. That it’s easily one of the best spacecraft and celestial object covers I can recall seeing is pretty secondary for me.
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I’d pick that up for sure. Love the sort of watercolor look.
I wouldn’t call the artwork itself a wrap-around, though; the back art looks like a zoom-in of the top half of the cover, but flipped around. (I think that’s not uncommon though usually it’s not flipped around like that.) Still–nice art! :-) Though I don’t care for the spine….
Looks like a straight ripoff of some Robotech/Macross DVD’s I saw the other day, even the font is close to the same. Still really like it though.
kick ass space opera (says so right on the cover) x Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) = hell yes!
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Yeah, agreed. that’s a pretty splendid cover. The fat font really helps make the piece.
A really cool cover. I’m getting back into sci-fi & this cover reminds me of what I’ve been missing. It’s weirdly retro … and I like it.
Okay, I’ll bite, that is a pretty cool cover. The book looks interesting too, to boot. I’ll add it to the to-buy list.
Thats excellent cover art, very reminiscent of John Berkey but a more extreme viewpoint that keeps it up to date. I like Abrahams writing anyway but this piques my interest even more.
I’m afraid my reasons are quite selfish. This book got some of its inspiration from a d20 Future game that was moderated by an online buddy of mine, and I played a character in it, the pilot in fact, so it’s only natural that I’d vote for it, of course. That it’s easily one of the best spacecraft and celestial object covers I can recall seeing is pretty secondary for me.
[…] I love this cover. Along with Daniel Dociu‘s cover for Leviathan Wakes, I’m happy to see this trend of artists winking slyly at old-school Science Fiction covers […]
[…] look at the cover, so expect a nice layer of polish to be added to the final copy. I loved the cover for Leviathan Wakes and this one looks like it’ll be just as great (if not quite so impressionistic and […]
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