Aug 12
Click for full imageWe’ve both been talking this over and really there is one thing we need on our cover. A horrific font! Have it big, bold, blocky and have the ‘fought’ look like someone has tried to adjust the colour balance in photoshop and then forgot about it. For the rest, just have some women crawling out of the air vent shooting an android. But seriously, who cares about the artwork these days.
(Rating: 6.53 out of 10)
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August 12th, 2009 at 10:37 am
haha, i can just see the artist aswell…
Artist: “ah, done and done… pretty good”
Author: ” Freaking awesome! oh but its called “THE” city who fought, you left out the “the”, you n00b!”
Artist: “ah well sure i’ll just wing the word inside a purple and black circle and stick a lightning bolt throught it”
Author: “OMGZ, THAT ROXORS”
Artist: “indeed”
(for some reason in my reality Anne McCaffery is a 14 year old l33t gamer)
August 12th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
haha next you will say Anne McCaffery is some 80 year old women or something LOLz
Yea… I didn’t actually notice the horrible ‘the’ box. Wow… just wow…
August 14th, 2009 at 11:06 am
For some reason this looks like it could have been an alternative mock-up for the home port of Xenophobe. I like that. A lot.
December 20th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
“THE SHIP WHO SANG is not alone!”
Well, I’m glad the singing ship has found a significant other / life partner / friend / one-night ship stand.
December 23rd, 2010 at 3:11 am
Re: A.R Yngve’s Last comment
I’ve actually read this book, and firstly “the city” is a space habitat, similar to say, Babylon 5, which is taken over by human invaders, from a degenerated colony…
And for the “life partner”, it’s more like “extremely disabled fellow classmate” of Helva, rather than any of the above, as the administrator is a “shellperson” as I recall…
December 30th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Robot Thomas Jefferson?
January 7th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
That android is thinking, dammit not more lesbians!
January 10th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Of course, the grammar checker should have been applied to this cover. The ship WHO sang? The city WHO fought?
January 17th, 2011 at 9:31 am
Well, yes… technically speaking, the title should’ve read “The City Which Fought” or “The City That Fought”… but I’ll admit the right to artistic license in this case.
It’s the message of the cover I’m not down with. Jeez, city, can’t we cities all get along…?