Congrats to all John W. Campbell Award Finalists (Jay, Lou, Ian….great to see your works in there, fellas). There are two awards in science fiction that are called “the Campbell Awards”, and this one is the juried award for Best SF Novel, presented at the Campbell Awards Conference in Lawrence, Kansas (not to be confused…
World Fantasy Award nomination ballots are due June 30 (voting info/ballots here, if you click “Nominations Ballot” in the sidebar). John Klima has a nice rundown of his choices, and he’s got some terrific ones in all categories, including Life Achievement. His post inspired me to type up a specific one about the Life Achievement…
First the Mind-Melding….(thus, the appropriate Spock cover by yours truly pictured left). SFSignal has posted the following Mind Meld question: What do you feel is the primary purpose of a book cover: To accurately reflect the story or to visually ‘sell’ the book? How do you balance these two ideas when creating a cover? Responses…
Cool! Look what I just received — advance copies of Pyr‘s spiffy new edition of Robert Silverberg’s classic SON OF MAN! Wraparound cover illustration by me (see the full image here). Here’s the summary copy on the book’s back cover: “Clay is a man from the twentieth century who is somehow caught up in a…
Here’s my cover illustration for the September issue of ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION. The illustration is based on the issue’s lead story, “The Ice War” by Stephen Baxter. Imagine a War-of-the-Worlds cataclysm colliding with England in the 1720s. However, the alien ships in this story are a different take from the usual tentacled, flexible tripods of…
Recently arrived — Maecenas, a first-rate Hungarian publishing house who also happens to be the exclusive Hungarian publisher for heavyweights like Kurt Vonnegut, has just released their edition of Walter M. Miller, Jr’s classic A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ. They bought the Hungarian rights for my cover illustration (first appeared on the HarperCollins/Eos American trade edition)…
Recently arrived — Marco Palmieri and the Pocket Books team were kind enough to send me my copies of the STAR TREK: TEROK NOR trilogy. The first two debuted in March and April, respectively, and the third book should be in bookstores now. As mentioned here previously, I illustrated the three covers as a triptych…
Been working round-the-clock on two covers these last several days. One of them is the cover for Michael Moorcock’s ELRIC: THE SLEEPING SORCERESS, which will be the third of Del Rey‘s six-volume Elric series. Right now, I’m working on the final color version, but here’s a look at the final pencil underdrawing. Pencil on Crescent…
Looks like my cover art for two STAR TREK: MYRIAD UNIVERSE books has leaked into cyberspace this week. So I guess it’s OK to post it here. The top picture is the cover illo for a July release called STAR TREK: MYRIAD UNIVERSES — INFINITY’S PRISM, which features alternate universe TREK stories by Christopher L.…
Swell photo here of 2008 SFWA Grandmaster Michael Moorcock, courtesy of Del Rey‘s editor-in-chief Betsy Mitchell. This morning, GalleyCat posted Betsy’s photo, along with a sizable article about Mike’s honors and my collaboration with him on ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS. Pretty solid piece by Ron Hogan…..check it out!