In case you’re not completely sick of Cover Art posts here at A Dribble of Ink, I present you with the totally rockin’ cover for the Subterranean Press version of The City & The City by China Mieville.
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Another day, another Abercrombie & Fitch model in a cloak. At least this time the character represented, Randur, is a self-described playboy and pretty to boot. I’d love to be a fly on the wall in the meeting where it was decided that the best way to sell novels was to make every cover look the same, just featuring a slightly different pose for menacing fellow that they hope potential readers will project on themselves. White certainly better than the cover for Newton’s upcoming novel, City of Ruin, this new cover is missing all of the Hardcover’s atmosphere that perfectly captured the tone of the novel. Seperated from the content, I do quite like the yellow/green colour pallette used, though it’s an odd choice for a bleak Dying Earth-style setting.
Aww, well. At least I know the book between the pages rocks.
An okay cover (though a strange change of style from the wonderful cover for The Red Wolf Conspiracy), but the bigger annoyance is the typical North American butchering by the marketing department, changing the title to The Ruling Sea. I guess they still think we North Americans are too lacking in couth for a long, unique title like The Rats and the Ruling Sea.
You can find the cover of the UK Edition, along with a synopsis, HERE.
No comment.
*cough*IwishLouAndershadpublishedthisthroughPyrsothatthecoverwouldbeawesome
insteadofusinganalteredversionofthepapyrusfontthatruinssomanydesigns*cough*
Ahem.
In the holy city of Othir, treachery and corruption lurk at the end of every street, just the place for a freelance assassin with no loyalties and few scruples.
Caim makes his living on the edge of a blade, but when a routine job goes south, he is thrust into the middle of an insidious plot. Pitted against crooked lawmen, rival killers, and sorcery from the Other Side, his only allies are Josephine, the socialite daughter of his last victim, and Kit, a guardian spirit no one else can see. But in this fight for his life, Caim only trusts his knives and his instincts, but they won’t be enough when his quest for justice leads him from Othir’s hazardous back alleys to its shining corridors of power. To unmask a conspiracy at the heart of the empire, he must claim his birthright as the Shadow’s Son….
I’m a sucker for anything by Michael Komarck, and this is no exception. I’m thrilled that Pyr Books have finally gotten their hands on him. The novel itself sounds like typical Sword & Sorcery, but Pyr generally do a good job at finding novels that do justice to tried-and-true genres.
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