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Books spotted 12/30/09 at Borders Books at Alamo Quarry Conrad A. Williams DECAY INEVITABLE Solaris Cover art by Dave McKean Yay, abstraction! Good to see some abstraction in a genre cover illustration these days. It’s a Dave McKean and does the job well — grabs the eye and says “hey, check this out.” Solaris [Read it all...] Books spotted 12/1/09 at Borders Books at Alamo Quarry THE DEAD THAT WALK Edited by Stephen Jones Ulysses Press Cover art by Les Edwards Zombie book covers were all the rage this year, weren’t they? Just when I thought I was well and done with any more zombie covers, Les Edwards does one that [Read it all...] Books spotted 10/01/09 at Barnes & Noble (410/San Pedro) David Anthony Durham THE OTHER LANDS Doubleday Cover art by Mikko Kinnunen Cover design by Michael J. Windsor The first time I met David Anthony Durham, we were both guests at the 2007 Elf Fantasy Fair in the Netherlands. At the time, I don’t think [Read it all...] Books spotted 8/31/09 at Borders Books at Alamo Quarry Brom THE CHILD THIEF HarperCollins/Eos Cover illustration & design by Brom Everyone knows Brom as a preeminent fantasy painter, but the guy can write too. This is a novel-length work with interior illustrations. Brom creates a terrific cover as usual, and I especially love the [Read it all...] Books spotted this month at Borders Books at Alamo Quarry Actually, this installment should be called “Spinespotting in SA”. As a guy who draws and paints book covers for a living, I love seeing books face-out, but in bookstores, they’re usually not displayed that way. The spine is oh-so-important to the visibility and shelf [Read it all...] Books spotted 7/1/09 at Borders Books at Alamo Quarry Joel Shepherd BREAKAWAY Pyr Cover art by Stephan Martiniere Love the strong diagonal here. Visually, it’s a tall mass-market paperback (in between the scale of a traditional mmp and a trade paperback) and therefore grabs your attention right away. I hear lots of griping about [Read it all...]
Books spotted 6/2/09 at Borders Books at the Alamo Quarry China Mieville THE CITY & THE CITY Ballantine / Del Rey Cover by Unknown I should’ve looked at the flap to see who did this one. Mieville’s a phenomenal writer, and his name stops your eye and sells the book. Mission accomplished by the [Read it all...] |
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