Book Cover Smackdown! ‘EVE: Templar One’ vs. ‘A Million Suns’ vs. ‘The Chalice of Death’
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011 at
12:25 am
Calling all armchair art critics! It’s time once again for another Book Cover Smackdown!
Here are today’s contenders…
Your Mission (should you choose to accept it): Tell us which cover you like best and why.
Books shown here:
- EVE: Templar One by Tony Gonzales (Tor Books; Artist: Unknown)
- A Million Suns by Beth Revis (Razorbill; Artist: Unknown)
- The Chalice of Death: Three Novels of Mystery in Space by Robert Silverberg (Paizo Publishing; Artist: Unknown)
NOTE: Bigger, better cover art images are available by clicking the images or title links.
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EVE: Templar One. Great cover.
Definitely A Million Suns. Has the look of a great SF movie – rich and deep. That said, I think the other two would sell well if they’re being specifically marketed to videogame or retro-sci-fi fans.
There seems to be a weird theme with these new Silverberg covers.
I’m particularly intrigued by ‘Scrapheap Angel’, since RJ Astruc and Deirdre Murphy are both excellent writers, but quite different. I really want to see what a collaboration between them will look like. Thanks for this helpful and provocative review.
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I think the Chalice of Death cover is the pre-production one, I think the new one looks like this:
http://paizo.com/image/product/catalog/PZO/PZO8033_500.jpeg
http://paizo.com/products/btpy8l2l/discuss?The-Chalice-of-Death#tabs
and I think the artist is Kieran Yanner.
EVE, definitely. Looks awesome.
@TW: Thanks for that, the finished piece looks a lot better.
I like the Chalice of Death cover because it works so well as a companion to the previous cover from this series we saw in the Smackdown. I Like when covers tie a series together.
A Million Suns has some nice colors but doesn’t do much for me.
EVE is the winner for me. I think it looks cool. But strangely, doesn’t hold up so well when you click through to the bigger one. It’s a little too rough and unfinished I think. More concept art than finished piece.
EVE takes the cake–dark and haunting. I dig the Chalice of Death cover, but not enough to hand it the title (clearly). A Million Suns–I’ve seen about a million recycling of the Andromeda galaxy in cover art and, yes, it is a lovely image…but this galaxy is to book covers as brick walls are to band press photos. Over done!