Am I allowed to have a favorite cover? If so, this could quite possibly be it. Stephan Martiniere's latest, with design by Jacqueline Cooke. This is Bright of the Sky, the first book in Kay Kenyon's exciting sci-fantasy quartet The Entire and the Rose. Kay, long recognized for her excellent world-building, has outdone herself with a tale of Titus Quinn, a human space pilot thrust into a pocket landscape called "the Universe Entire," ruled by an oppressive Overlord race and peopled with multiple bizarre creatures. Bright of the Sky is high adventure & high concept, in the vein of Dan Simmons Hyperion or Philip José Farmer's Riverworld. The world has a somewhat Mandarin flavor, and sits right between science fiction and fantasy - all of which Stephan captures brilliantly. The book is due out from Pyr in April, 2007.
The Geomancer
9/15/06
Feast Your Eyes On This: Bright of the Sky
Am I allowed to have a favorite cover? If so, this could quite possibly be it. Stephan Martiniere's latest, with design by Jacqueline Cooke. This is Bright of the Sky, the first book in Kay Kenyon's exciting sci-fantasy quartet The Entire and the Rose. Kay, long recognized for her excellent world-building, has outdone herself with a tale of Titus Quinn, a human space pilot thrust into a pocket landscape called "the Universe Entire," ruled by an oppressive Overlord race and peopled with multiple bizarre creatures. Bright of the Sky is high adventure & high concept, in the vein of Dan Simmons Hyperion or Philip José Farmer's Riverworld. The world has a somewhat Mandarin flavor, and sits right between science fiction and fantasy - all of which Stephan captures brilliantly. The book is due out from Pyr in April, 2007.
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Love the cover, love the book idea. I will have to keep a watch out for this one next year!
ReplyDeleteThis cover is, indeed, one of the best I've seen in ages. What a treat we have in store.
ReplyDeleteLouise Marley
That's just plain gorgeous. Ooh misty depths! Ooh massive alien structures! Ooh strange human headed flying angel fish type things! And who said illustrative book covers were dead?
ReplyDeleteSimon