just grand

[adelaidesean]

Here, hot off the press, is the US cover of Astropolis 3: The Grand Conjunction:



What do you think? Stephan Martinière was unavailable so Scott Grimando has stepped up to the podium. I am excited, and not just because it depicts a setting from the climax of the book.

ETA - Here's the blurb:

Six hundred thousand years after Imre Bergamasc's abdication, the galaxy is barely recognisable. Emlee Copas is the Prime Minister of the Host, and the tyrant's own son Ra MacPhedron is its President. Imre himself has disappeared, and peace reigns where once was only chaos and war.

Underneath the veneer of civilization, however, revolution is fomenting. The murder of Helwise MacPhedron will never be forgiven, and neither will the slaughter of the Forts. With the Luminous still at large and the fate of humanity still very much in the balance, Imre's return may be all it takes to light the final fuse...

Since we're talking about the end of a series, "Tail of the Snake" is today's title of note.

Comments

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

What if I said the figure isn't male?

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Disco is indeed the great unifier. :-)

Here's a closer look:



Context probably helps (which is not a good thing for a cover, I guess). The book deals with gender dysphoria in a post-human setting, so I like that the figure is slightly skewed, proportions-wise, and might even be growing out of the thing he/she is standing on.

[millisynth.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I'm undecided...
She's either bowling a strike or practising her latest hardcore dancing moves...?

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Looking closer at the cover also makes me wonder whether I have a thing about reflective balls:



The hole-ships from Orphans spring to mind too. Crikey.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Not so latent at times. :-)

Palmer Cells are definitely something I'd like to revisit one day. I don't often re-read my own books once they're in print, but I did pick up Ascent a few months back and enjoyed the straits those ships endured. I still think it's a workable design principle. Maybe I should patent it!

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Presently there's no alternative to shipping--apart from a trade, which I'm always open to.

This should change in the near future, though. We're still shopping around the Broken Land books, and hopeful they'll find a home (notwithstanding the current economic climate). The Books of the Change will appear in a POD version early next year. That's something.

(I just added the blurb to TGC to this post, btw. It would make no sense at all to anyone who hasn't read the series, but it's something. I'll put another excerpt online soon.)

[millisynth.livejournal.com]

Sean,
I've noticed a lot of your books are available from The Book Depository -
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk

I wonder if they will be able to sell your YA novels as well in due course?

Btw, I highly recommend this web site. Free postage world wide. And the books usually arrive within one week of placing the order.

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

For these books, you could wait five minutes? :)

[paulhaines.livejournal.com]

awesome cover -- so when do the movie rights guys come looking for this. personally, the scope and vision of this story would be fantastic to see on the big screen.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

I'm hanging out for the anime version. :-)

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Starship Sofa is talking about your books too, in the latest F. Paul Wilson episode.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

That's good to hear. In a positive light, I hope. :-)

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Yes, also mentioned something about needing to see if you had any Sofa-able short stories. :)

Two book picks of the episode - Earth Ascendant was one of them.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

That's very cool. I am chuffed. :-)

[frogworth.livejournal.com]

WANT.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Soon you shall have. :-)

[frogworth.livejournal.com]

"Patience, grasshopper".

I shall download your piano opuses soon :)

Oh and btw, Extreme (http://www.xtr.com/) have released another Terminal Sound System album... along the lines of last year's, pretty nice!

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks for the tip. Will grab it now!

[mjreinke.livejournal.com]

Looks fantastic!

I have just finished reading Book 1 and 2 of Astropolis. Read them in less than 2 days and am hungry for more! The Orphan Trilogy is what attracted me to read more of your work. What you do is my dream, to formulate a fantastic space opera of complex proportions that stirs a tapestry of emotions in the reader. Putting it into motion is another thing entirely.

Thank you for your writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. :D

Matt

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your kind words, Matt. Book three is done and dusted so isn't far away now! If you want something to tide you over, there's Cenotaxis from MonkeyBrain books. It's Astropolis 1.5, if you like. :-) Here's some more info:
http://ladnews.livejournal.com/tag/cenotaxis

Cheers!