Sneak Peek Eye Candy: Alliance of Equals

[rolanni]

Here we have something rare and precious -- a sneak peek of the comp of the cover for Alliance of Equals.  Which is to say a suggested layout.  Sort of like the cover version of a first draft.

We are cautioned that the final cover may change, but this is where the Art Department at Baen is currently tending.

Art by David Mattingly, and yes, this does illustrate an Actual Scene from the book.

Comments

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

Very nice, as usual :)

[filkferengi]

This cover rocks socks!

[gerald heaton (from livejournal.com)]

All things equal, I like sketch 2 better.

Either way, that's a crap ton of ordinance coming their way.

And as anyone knows, in a fight, incoming ordinance has the right of way.

[doccolt.livejournal.com]

You can always do what I did and order a print of both. David is very nice that way. well worth the $50 for a print and $10 shipping for all in a great shipping tube.
Sam

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

As a piece of art, the one with the spacestation is really nice. For a cover, though, I think simpler is better, given that the publisher is going to be putting BIG LETTERS over most of the art? Had they chosen the the art featuring the station, we'd've had a hard time seeing it in any detail, by the time the compositing department was done with it.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

The cat! Where is the cat?

[elbales]

That was my first thought, too! "BUT THE CAT."

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

I could be wrong, but look at the background just above the new and around universe? See the dark spot with a star in it at about 45 degrees up from new? Is that an eye? And there's another one over and up a little to the left. Then the body and paws are below, holding up the universe?

Is that a cat, or just a random pattern that my brain is interpreting?

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Overlaid by print? The face is pretty vague - not very cat-like. More a Liaden Possum.

[rasmusb.livejournal.com]

So when is this coming out again? Sometime in 2016?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

July 5 is the hardcover publication date.