{"id":28101,"date":"2015-02-12T06:30:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=28101"},"modified":"2015-02-11T15:07:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T02:07:51","slug":"sff-cover-art-love-more-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/02\/12\/sff-cover-art-love-more-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"SFF Cover Art Love: More Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks back I posted on some of my favourite SFF covers <\/a>and shared some reflections on why they drew me in as a reader.<\/p>\n

Then I realized I had missed some really important “covers of all-time awesome.” Oh no!<\/p>\n

For example, like this cover, created by Michael Whelan<\/a>, for Joan Vinge’s The Snow Queen<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\"Snow<\/a><\/p>\n

And it’s companion jacket for The Summer Queen<\/em><\/strong> sequel:<\/p>\n

\"Summer<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking of Summer themes, I have always really liked artist Martin Springett’s<\/a> Celtic style covers to Guy Gavriel Kay’s Fionavar trilogy: The Summer Tree<\/em><\/strong>, The Wandering Fire<\/strong><\/em>, and The Darkest Road<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>\"The<\/a>\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nAnd then there’s the latest cover (by artist Adam S Doyle<\/a>) in Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Boys<\/strong> series, which also generated an “Oooh, yes please!”<\/em> moment when I first saw the book—because it is awesome!<\/p>\n

\"Blue<\/a><\/p>\n

I love the richness of all these covers, but also the way they create a sense of myth, and magic, and mystery—which makes me want to know so much more<\/em> about the story!<\/p>\n

Which is exactly what jacket art is meant to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks back I posted on some of my favourite SFF covers and shared some reflections on why they drew me in as a reader. Then I realized I had missed some really important “covers of all-time awesome.” Oh no! For example, like this cover, created by Michael Whelan, for Joan Vinge’s The Snow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28101"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28132,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28101\/revisions\/28132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}