Jussi Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Age of Aztec by James Lovegrove.Greatshadow by James Maxey.City of Light & Shadow by Ian Whates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King.The Night of the Swarm by Robert V.S. Redick.Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan.The Bible Repairman and Other Stories by Tim Powers (Subterranean Press edition). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 I like the first 3 a lot. Especially the new King novel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 US and UK cover art for Douglas Hulick's Sworn in Steel: http://wyrdsmiths.blogspot.com/2011/09/covers.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procrastimancer Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 The Night of the Swarm by Robert V.S. Redick. Who was responsible for choosing the craptastic font on this novel and why are they not barred entry to the art department? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Orb, Scepter, Throne by Ian C. Esslemont. This River Awakens by Steven Erikson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidan Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 This River Awakens by Steven Erikson. I don't even... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagilki Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 This River Awakens by Steven Erikson. this is a joke, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Maybe it's a placeholder? I don't have any problems with the image. This is a new edition of Steve Lundin's debut novel, which was originally published in 1998. In the spring of 1971, Owen Brand and his family move to the riverside town of Middlecross in a renewed attempt to escape poverty. For twelve-year-old Owen, it's the opportunity for a new life and an end to his family's isolation and he quickly falls in with a gang of three local boys and forms a strong bond with Jennifer, the rebellious daughter of a violent, alcoholic father. As summer brings release from school, two figures preside over the boys' activities: Walter Gribbs, a benign old watchman at the yacht club, and Hogdson Fisk, a vindictive farmer tormented by his past. Then the boys stumble on a body washed up on the riverbank - a discovery whose reverberations will result, as the year comes full circle, in a cataclysm that envelopes them all... Steven Erikson first novel, "This River Awakens", is a lyrical, tender and disturbing portrayal of a rite of passage that is both harsh and revelatory.http://www.amazon.co...15510890&sr=1-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gormenghast Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 Orb, Scepter, Throne by Ian C. Esslemont. /rolleyes Now we have this trend of urban fantasy with photos of an anonymous guy on top of a moody background. All looking painfully generic and conveying ZERO information about what the book is about. That's a cover that you usually see on Mark C. Newton books, and I was already sorry for him for getting those kinds of covers. It's time to evict Steve Stone from the Malazan world. He doesn't put even a minimum effort anymore on the covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 /rolleyes Now we have this trend of urban fantasy with photos of an anonymous guy on top of a moody background. All looking painfully generic and conveying ZERO information about what the book is about. That's a cover that you usually see on Mark C. Newton books, and I was already sorry for him for getting those kinds of covers. It's time to evict Steve Stone from the Malazan world. He doesn't put even a minimum effort anymore on the covers. THANK YOU. I dislike Steve Stone's Malazaan covers quite a bit, and don't understand some of the praise he gets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sci-2 Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 Some of them were pretty good (I recall toll the hounds and midnight tides having good ones?), but yeah the generic moody guy thing has taken over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 Some of them were pretty good (I recall toll the hounds and midnight tides having good ones?), but yeah the generic moody guy thing has taken over. I also REALLY like Lockwoods non Bonehunter's covers. I wish they had used him for the last two. It doesn't look right on my shelf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 From Angry Robot: Giant Thief by David Tallerman. The Alchemist of Souls by Anne Lyle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 I don't think you can blame Steve Stone for the Generic Moody Guy thing on the Malazan covers- it's clearly at the publisher's request. It's an utter waste of his talents to be doing it though- like the time when it was decided that the best use of him on the Shannara covers would be to do either a close up of a sword or staff or whatever, and then later on on the Word and Void series to use his artwork as a faded background for some people in silhouette.I really wish publishers would stop playing follow the leader just because x book did well out of it recently. Even Angry Robot are at it... a lot of their covers have been impressive but those two are poor. Although at least Giant Thief has a sort of nostalgic cheese factor to it, and if it wasn't for the bloke in the foreground looking somehow off I'd probably like that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat5150 Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 Cover art for the limited edition of Joe Abercrombie's Last Argument of Kings here. Patrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poobah Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 Cover art for the limited edition of Joe Abercrombie's Last Argument of Kings here. Patrick The thing about the Abercrombie covers is that you absolutely cannot top the originals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 Casket of Souls by Lynn Flewelling. The Desert of Souls by Howard Andrew Jones (paperback edition). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beniowa Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 The Desert of Souls by Howard Andrew Jones (paperback edition).Oh, boy. Another crappy movie poster. Pretty lame compared to the stylized art of the hardcover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Toblerone Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Oh, boy. Another crappy movie poster. Pretty lame compared to the stylized art of the hardcover.I'd say "1990s computer game box" rather than crappy movie poster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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