{"id":1142,"date":"2009-06-07T19:02:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T03:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2009-06-07T19:12:58","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T03:12:58","slug":"cover-art-the-final-empire-by-brandon-sanderson-uk-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/art\/cover-art\/cover-art-the-final-empire-by-brandon-sanderson-uk-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Art | The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (UK Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though it was graced with some pretty snazzy cover art in the US (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookcloseouts.com\/images\/large\/isbn978076\/9780765311788-l.jpg\">HARDCOVER<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/encyclopaedia-wot.org\/graphics\/mb1pb.jpg\">PAPERBACK<\/a>) and some pretty horrible cover art in the US (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.critical-hits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/mistborn.jpg\">PAPERBACK<\/a>), none of it is nearly as interesting as the recently revealed cover art for a UK edition of the book.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/final-empire.jpg\" alt=\"The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson\" title=\"The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson\" width=\"324\" height=\"500\" class=\"center\" \/>\n<p>Love it? Hate it? Somewhere in between?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m mostly in the <strong>Love it<\/strong> camp. But then again, I&#8217;m a fan of cool minimalist art like this, and like the change from the generic painting-of-a-fantasy-character cover that&#8217;s so often bequeathed on Epic Fantasy. Since I haven&#8217;t read the novel, I can&#8217;t really comment on how closely it fits the tone and story, but it&#8217;s certainly something that would catch my eye on the shelf.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though it was graced with some pretty snazzy cover art in the US (HARDCOVER and PAPERBACK) and some pretty horrible cover art in the US (PAPERBACK), none of it is nearly as interesting as the recently revealed cover art for a UK edition of the book. Love it? Hate it? Somewhere in between? I&#8217;m mostly&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/art\/cover-art\/cover-art-the-final-empire-by-brandon-sanderson-uk-edition\/\" title=\"ReadCover Art | The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (UK Edition)\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/art\/cover-art\/cover-art-the-final-empire-by-brandon-sanderson-uk-edition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cover Art | The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (UK Edition) - A Dribble of Ink\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Though it was graced with some pretty snazzy cover art in the US (HARDCOVER and PAPERBACK) and some pretty horrible cover art in the US (PAPERBACK), none of it is nearly as interesting as the recently revealed cover art for a UK edition of the book. 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