three times awesome

[adelaidesean]

The UK cover of The Grand Conjunction has been out for a while, but for some reason I forgot to post it here. Not for any reason; I'm just forgetful. Here it is in all its glory:



Technically there are three moons in this cover (foreground, background, and creating the eclipse). Could that be any cooler?

Here's the blurb.

Imre Bergamasc is lost. His search for answers has led him up an alley so blind even his sense of self has become uncertain. Before he can save the galaxy from ruin, he must find the strength to carry on and reclaim his ultimate purpose.

But more than two million years in our future, the fight has changed. Former allies are now enemies, and enemies have taken on entirely new forms. Chased from the very edge of humanity's vast empire into the heart of an ancient conspiracy, he must finally come face to face with Himself, for without the truth of his past humanity's future will never be secured.

And here's the US cover, if you want to compare.

Meanwhile Mark Chitty Hub reviewed Saturn Returns in its latest issue, concluding: "a great Space Opera novel... Highly recommended."

BBC Focus thought Earth Ascendant "admirably rich and baroque, bringing to mind Iain M. Banks's Culture novels."

And Bookspot Central recommended Saturn Returns to "anyone who likes dark, epic-scale space opera, stories with intense action, or science fiction about subjects such as slower-than-light interstellar societies and the technological transformation of the human mind. ...an excellent combination of atmospheric power, thoughtful speculation, and visceral excitement that I recommend highly."

No need to comment, unless you're moved to by the awesomeness of my lovely Lunatic trio. :-) I post reviews and stuff here for my own record, mainly. Much easier to search LJ than my hard drive.

Comments

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Whoever does your covers has a thig for orbs.....

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Glad you like it. I guess the orb thing comes from the astrology references. Also 'cos they're cool. :-)

[sithmagician.livejournal.com]

That's a really nice cover, it stirs the heart of this inner 10 year old ELITE player :)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

[derekcfpegritz.livejournal.com]

I hope it aims with Imre Bergamasc kneeling in the sands of a scorched, burnt, and lifeless earth mumbling incessantly, "Me, I eat dust....We're all so run down...."

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Nice image. Except it would be Render saying those words, 'cos he's the Numanoid. :-)

This line is in the final scene: "Heroes always get the best girl, and then die."

[derekcfpegritz.livejournal.com]

Certainly...but I could see Bergamasc reciting it based on something he'd heard Render say before Render falls in the Ultimate Battle. But, then again, I tend to plot things very BIG and VIOLENT.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

I tend to plot things very BIG and VIOLENT

With you all the way. Have I mentioned that the collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda is a plot-point in this novel?

[derekcfpegritz.livejournal.com]

Oh, snap. OK, you've prettymuch outdone me there.

Until I finish my sequence of stories set in the future of Lovecraft's various tales, in which the Fungi from Yuggoth team up with Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep to battle the Other Gods...and end up fighting chaotic monsters whose very neurons are entire universes connected and communicating by endless wormholes. Beat that.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Whoa. Get writing. I want to read that!

[derekcfpegritz.livejournal.com]

I got a thousand things on deck right now, but it'll happen, believe me....

[derekcfpegritz.livejournal.com]

Also, Sean, I just sent you an email concerning...well, "M.E." and some other Numanoid-related stuff. I sent it to the mail link from your website, so hopefully you get it! You might get a kick out of it. :) Or not. Regardless, I suggest you give Numan's Replicas a listen in the next few days. I've been obsessing over that album lately....

[snorefish.livejournal.com]

love the cover,


If the star is behind the eclipsing moon, how do we get the light in front of the front moon, and the light behind the far moon?


hehehe


Still looks great though!

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Artistic licence.

[snorefish.livejournal.com]

lol,

yeah - I have a dog licence, a drive licence, even a few other licences.

I keep trying to buy an artistic licence and poetic licence.


Reminds me of the film, "Nothing Lasts Forever" (Kind of a 1984 world, where New York is run by the Transit authority) but the main character wants to be an artist, and needs to sit this bizarre test to get his artistic licence.

But seriously, great set of covers!

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

This is exactly what you need:
http://evolution-control.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=117:artistic-license&catid=44:blog&Itemid=79

:-)

[stevewilson.livejournal.com]

So from an astronomical persepective, how does that image work? I mean the shadows relative to the position of the sun? ;-)

[stevewilson.livejournal.com]

Oops didn't read the earlier comment on this :P

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

That's why it's a *grand* conjunction. :-)

[gloripebbles.livejournal.com]

I like how the green seems to be the one used for those toys/stars/moons that glow in the dark on the ceilings of rooms.

Though everytime you talk about this series I end up thinking of my mother :o (she does Eastern & Western astrology...grew up hearing all about conjunctions, squares, trines *lol*).

The Grand Conjunction Audiobook

[hellwise.livejournal.com]

Hey

Any news on when The Grand Conjunction will be released on Audiobook

Re: The Grand Conjunction Audiobook

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

None, I'm afraid. Which makes me think it might not happen. :-(