Book Cover Smackdown! Desolation Road vs. Leviathan (UK version)
More cool covers. Yes, we’ve covered Leviathan before, but this is a shiny new cover for the UK version…
Your Mission (should you choose to accept it): Tell us which cover you like best and why. Go!
Books shown here:
- Desolation Road by Ian McDonald (Artist: Stephan Martiniere)
- Leviathan (w/ UK cover art) by Scott Westerfeld (Artist: Keith Thompson)
NOTE: Click on the book images or title links to access bigger & better versions of the cover art…
That train-juggernaut is purely beautiful.
Ooo, I love these book cover smackdowns! “Desolation Road” natch. The tones, that gorgeous, gorgeous mega-train that just oozes personality of its own. In fact, everything about the cover, down to the range of typefaces used on front and back, is beautiful. “Leviathan”? Well, when I first glanced at it, it reminded me of a berserker mechano-pimple, bursting forth from a chasm-ridden face of some sort. (But that could just be me.) For once, I prefer the US Leviathan cover.
Desolation Road, without question. That’s pretty enough to be art.
The Westerfield cover looks like a rejected cover for a Mechwarrior spinoff.
Desolation Road by martiniere!
Gorgeous, both as art & a front cover! The colours, the train, the smoke, the sky. Even the type.
Desolation Road by a landslide! That is beautiful art right there – and the back cover just finishes it off. Amazing.
Both wonderful! But Desolation Road really looks like a world I want to visit – the cover goes for beauty as well as otherworldliness. Great stuff.
That maybe the most beautiful Martiniere cover yet. The Leviathan cover is pretty good,but I like the US cover better.
Boy, I don’t know how you folks are able to pick. I love ’em both.
Desolation Road! Since I havent read the book I can not comment on how the cover conveys the setting, but it definitely conveys great feeling.