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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp last week

#PennedPossibilities 934 — Do you have a book cover for your WIP?

No.

I'm 100% trad published and cover design/art is the publisher's job. That would currently be Tor in the USA and Orbit in the UK. (They sometimes remember to ask me if I like it before it's frozen …!)

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Dammitjanet
Dammitjanet
@dammitjanet@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

@cstross have there been any covers you actively hated, or loved. My favourite is probably the original Rule 34 and halting state

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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp last week

@dammitjanet Yes! I absolutely hated the original version of the US cover for "Halting State" and managed to get it changed. Then Ace horked up an EVEN WORSE cover for "Saturn's Children" the following year and wouldn't budge on it, hence:

The original US cover wrap-around for "Saturn's Children" by Charles Stross. Main cover illustration is a recumbent purple-haired sex android in a skin-tight cat suit that's unzipped low enough to show that she doesn't have a navel … style is bad 2005 Poser animation, with added crimes against typography.

Despite this it made the Hugo shortlist.
The original US cover wrap-around for "Saturn's Children" by Charles Stross. Main cover illustration is a recumbent purple-haired sex android in a skin-tight cat suit that's unzipped low enough to show that she doesn't have a navel … style is bad 2005 Poser animation, with added crimes against typography. Despite this it made the Hugo shortlist.
The original US cover wrap-around for "Saturn's Children" by Charles Stross. Main cover illustration is a recumbent purple-haired sex android in a skin-tight cat suit that's unzipped low enough to show that she doesn't have a navel … style is bad 2005 Poser animation, with added crimes against typography. Despite this it made the Hugo shortlist.
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Dammitjanet
Dammitjanet
@dammitjanet@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

@cstross Lordy! There'sa marked difference lol

The cover of the uk version of Charles Stross's Saturns Children showing what looks like a gallon being held aloft by lighter than air balloons as part of the hull
The cover of the uk version of Charles Stross's Saturns Children showing what looks like a gallon being held aloft by lighter than air balloons as part of the hull
The cover of the uk version of Charles Stross's Saturns Children showing what looks like a gallon being held aloft by lighter than air balloons as part of the hull
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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp last week

@dammitjanet Yeah. I don't *love* the Orbit cover, but it's not as uniquely terrible as the Ace one!

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