Oct 05
Click for full imageChuffmunky’s Art Direction: “Ok there’s NO budget for the cover this time. Go through that pile of dusty CDs; there should be some forgotten illustrators’ portfolios from the 90’s we can raid.”
Published 2012
(Average: 5.43 out of 10)
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October 5th, 2015 at 9:43 am
I was admiring the juxtaposition of space ships and converse and then realised it was the photo, doh! (But weirder things than that have been on GSS!)
October 5th, 2015 at 10:11 am
The universe’s fastest butterfly, ladies and gentlemen.
October 5th, 2015 at 10:16 am
Dum-Dum-Dum-Dum-Dum-Dum-Dum-Dum-Dum-Dum-Dum…
FLASH…
AAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
October 5th, 2015 at 11:22 am
Handmade artisan spaceships. Whatever next?
October 5th, 2015 at 11:32 am
It’s ‘The Butterfly Effect’. A butterfly flaps its wings in the rainforests of Brazil, and a week later a crap cover comes out in Frankfurt.
October 5th, 2015 at 1:58 pm
The blinding whiteness of outer space. Olber’s Paradox?
October 5th, 2015 at 3:49 pm
Does the face on the engine affect performance? If so, I want a propulsion system that really ‘puts out’.
October 5th, 2015 at 4:04 pm
I am quite bugged by that stupid period at the end of the cover blurb.
Since it’s not a sentence, I react thinking it’s a reference to “San Francisco” with a typo. And, like, who’s interested in the most exciting new voice in San Francisco? Not since 1967 anyway.
I seem to be cranky this Monday—but don’t you think a title like this demands some representation of a fractal on the cover?
I do like the red Chucks however . . . .
October 5th, 2015 at 4:16 pm
Yo! Home to Bel-Aire!
October 5th, 2015 at 7:02 pm
I was wondering why this was tagged “spaceships with faces”, until I had a closer look at the engines.
They must pay their artisans a bloody fortune for hand-crafting all their ships for them. But I guess they think it’s worth it, for a fleet that’s both unique and, judging by the aforementioned faces on the engines, showcases their leader’s egomania.
October 5th, 2015 at 7:30 pm
It’s terribly unfortunate that Prince isn’t in purple.
October 6th, 2015 at 1:09 am
If you could turn any two celebrities into engines for your spaceship, whom would you choose? I would choose Geoffrey Rush and Alex Hastie.
October 6th, 2015 at 4:18 am
@Dead Stuff WBT—since there appear to be three engines, it’s likely there’s a hidden third face.
October 6th, 2015 at 5:09 am
Love and Rockets
by
Russell T Davies
October 6th, 2015 at 9:49 am
“Real French Tit Cap” by Ruah, Anemia Jinn
The Most Exciting, Mind-Blowing Fleece Invention from Sven W. Who
October 7th, 2015 at 12:48 am
I know it’s obscenely nerdy, but I had to submit this for the horribly aliased displacement maps, and of course the bizarre faces on the engines.
Sorry about the distracting shoes!
October 7th, 2015 at 3:41 pm
@chuffmunky—not at all, those are very cool shoes.
October 7th, 2015 at 5:12 pm
@Perry Armstrong: That’s hilarious!
October 9th, 2015 at 2:29 pm
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE SPACESHIP
By Roald Dahl
October 9th, 2015 at 11:25 pm
It’s admirable that the Fractal Prince’s culture has figured out how to make Great-White-Void-capable spaceships entirely out of pine cones and death masks.
October 10th, 2015 at 12:22 am
@random Donna: It’s the McGyver/Stargate Universe crossover we all wanted to see.
October 22nd, 2015 at 5:49 pm
Dammit. Another one of mine.
To be fair (not the point I know, but throw me a bone here) the faces on the engines are in the book…
And the butterfly? It’s a linking motif with the other books in the trilogy (it’s a reason, not an excuse, OK?).
As for the white? Not the artist’s fault (Chris Moore btw). we took his background for the first book (The Quantum Thief) off and replaced it with plain white and it REALLY worked (trust me). By that point the die was caste…
October 25th, 2015 at 7:50 pm
@Simon: confess! CONFESS! Which one is Wally? CONFESS!
October 26th, 2015 at 5:07 pm
@DSWBT: Shouldn’t that be “repent”?
January 13th, 2016 at 11:31 pm
The long awaited novelization of the nineteen nineties hit computer game.
December 8th, 2017 at 6:25 pm
I have this! Even bought in Helsinki. Even read it, or tried. The cover makes more sense than the book. Maybe I read it too fast or something.
December 8th, 2017 at 6:39 pm
After titles with the 90s buzzword followed by the 80s all-purpose handwave the third should either have had ‘Holistic’ or ‘Atlantis’ in the title to be truly 70s. Or ‘Singularity’ if it was going for that 2000 – 2005 vibe.
December 8th, 2017 at 9:45 pm
I read the first one of these and liked it, but no more. The US covers for these books are overly busy and dark, but not as risible. No white outer space, at least. Main character is pictured.