UK cover art?

[psytech]

Noticed that home page of stephenrdonaldson.com seems to have what appears to be the cover for the UK edition. Interesting. A mountain scape in the background reflected to the foreground by a body of water. In silver (gray?) with gold highlights.

[Seareach]

Yeah, I really like it!

[kevinswatch]

Yes...*anything* is better than the US art. Heh.-jay

[dlbpharmd]

Yes...*anything* is better than the US art. Heh.-jay

I don't know about that - I don't like the UK cover either.

[Avatar]

At least its more consistent with the Runes cover...

--A

[Jussi]

I like this cover.

[dlbpharmd]

At least its more consistent with the Runes cover...

--A

True.

[aliantha]

Oooh, I *like* that. Hey, maybe SRD would sell more in the US if his US publisher would use the UK covers!

Must be the resolution on my stupid monitor here at work -- I can't read the quote or who it's by.

[I'm Murrin]

It's not a good scan. I believe it says: "Something entirely out of the ordinary," The Times.

[emotional leper]

I think it either depicts Gilmermere, or, I can't recall exactly, the place in RotE where Linden shared the Horserite. Or possibly, the mountains in the distance are Skyweir (if I recall correctly,) and the lake is a lake of earthblood?

[Niftium]

That picture did it it - I'll now officially be ordering the rest of the Last Chronicles from the UK. Hopefully I'll still be able to pick up a UK copy of RotE too.

[TWDuke77]

Have to say I think the colour of this cover is awful, a kind of bluey gray if the publishers blad is anything to go by. Glad the style is consistent but was really hoping they'd go for a much more striking colour like red or green (see the similarly designed blue of the Mordant's Need reissue - beautifully done!). As a bookseller, this new cover is going to be VERY hard to display attractively.

[Seareach]

Oh, I assumed it was black with gold and silver (like the Runes copy). I hope it's not bluey gray!

[TWDuke77]

Well it looks like black, gold and silver on the image posted by Jussi and I sincerely hope it is and that the representation I saw was inaccurate, but I've got a bad feeling... Such a shame as well since Gollancz put so much effort into ROTE. Even the pb edition was brilliant, classy and simple, but with its clever reference to the original UK covers in the circular motif.

Still, so long as we don't judge a book by its cover, it shouldn't matter anyway, right?

[Ard Rhys]

That's ugly as all fugh. The UK covers are atrocious, I think. The only thing they have going for them is uniformity, and who wants ugly uniformity. haha

[Usivius]

wow, that's strong.
I like the UK covers a lot. Not just for their unifmormity to each other in the series, by they hint, rather than attempt show, which is what I like.

Nothing worse than a cover with an artist's visual interpretation of a scene or character that totally conflicts with your own personal mind's-eye view...

[dANdeLION]

Yes...*anything* is better than the US art. Heh.-jay

Really? How about this?

[Usivius]

[aliantha]

He's milking that drawing for all it's worth...

(Dammit! Cheval already beat me to this pun in the other forum! )

[Jussi]

New version from Amazon UK: