I’ve never read a Glen Cook novel. I’m not a fan of the man’s attitude in interviews. But damn! I cannot get enough to the covers for his collections!
Anyone know the name of the artist?
Posts Categorized: Cover Art
I wasn’t enamoured by the UK cover art for Robin Hobb’s Dragon Keeper, and I’m not sure I like the NA version any better.
Is it me, or does that dragon look like something out of the CG cutscenes of a late-90’s computer RPG? Blah. I don’t mind the girl or the landscape so much…
Peter V. Brett’s The Painted Man (known as The Warded Man in North America, sold like hotcakes and it seemed Subterranean Press noticed. Rather than re-releasing Brett’s novel (as they’ve done with Richard Morgan’s The Steel Remains, Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself and many other novels), this time around they’re releasing a collection of short fiction called The Great Bazaar.
Mark, over at Walker of Worlds, showed off the cover art:
The Great Bazaar and Other Stories includes a long new story, as well as several outtakes from the first novel in the series — really, standalone short stories themselves — as well as additional material to flesh out Brett’s bravura storytelling.
I dig the cover art, and it’s sure to look even better in person. Knowing the quality of Subterranean Press’s other releases, this is sure to be a beautiful book. As a big fan of The Painted Man, I’m very eager to get my hands on this, to say the least!
The first three volumes of Daniel Abraham‘s Long Price Quartet were graced with some bloody good cover art. And, well… it looks like the fourth (and final) volume can make the same claim.
Pretty nice, eh? Though in the same style as the earlier covers, it’s somewhat missing the art-deconess of the earlier covers, though that might change once I’m actually holding the things in my hands. Also, it’s much, much better than the atrocious omnibus editions coming from Orbit Books.
I’ve been eagerly awaiting the publication of this final volume, so I can finally jump into the Long Price Quartet, which comes highly recommended.
Snagged this from Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist:
Rather than a real novel, this is a collection of novellas written by Erikson, finally collected into one volume. It takes place in the world of his well-known Malazan series, which is sure to catch the eye of those fans who haven’t already got their hands on the novellas. What’s curious, though, is that Tor isn’t promoting it as a Malazan novel, at least in the sense that the kept it off the cover. Odd…
What is nice, though, is that Tor has finally saddled an Erikson novel with a decent (but not great) cover; a surprise after all the tripe he’s had to put up with so far. I still shudder whenever I see The Bonehunters.
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