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Edward Miller’s cover art for Ian R MacLeod’s Song of Time
Posted by Paul Raven on July 24th, 2008 at 6:33
We just got our hands on the finished jacket art for Ian R MacLeod's forthcoming PS Publishing novel, Song of Time. It's based on a striking painting by Edward Miller (a.k.a. Les Edwards):
It's an arresting image... which means it matches well with Ian MacLeod's writing. Those of you waiting patiently on your pre-ordered copies have only till the end of the year to wait - but don't forget that Fantasy Book Spot are exclusively hosting an extract from the start of Song of Time that you can read right now.
If you've not placed an order yet, click through below to reserve your copy ahead of the stampede:
- Song of Time (slipcased hardcover) : £50 (US$100 approx.) - 200 copies only
- Song of Time (hardcover) : £20 (US$40 approx.) - 500 copies only
Final cover for Postscripts #15
Posted by Paul Raven on June 26th, 2008 at 9:19
The title says it all, folks - here's the final front cover for Postscripts #15, based on Al Feldstein's lush painting:
Maybe it's just my inner five-year-old speaking, but I think everything goes better with dinosaurs.
This bumper-sized special issue (Worldcon 2008/all-sf/Paul McAuley - three specials in one!) is going to fly off the shelves, so click through below to add your name to the growing list of pre-orders:
- Postscripts #15 (multi-autograph slipcased hardcover) - £75 (US$150 approx) - 100 copies only
- Postscripts #15 (signed hardcover) - £30 (US$60 approx) - 300 copies only
- Postscripts #15 (hardcover) - £15 (US$30 approx) - 600 copies only
PS Showcase #3 - cover art for Robert T Jeschonek’s Mad Scientist Meets Cannibal collection
Posted by Paul Raven on June 17th, 2008 at 9:27
Ladies and gentlemen, PS Publishing are proud to present the complete jacket layout (based on Tomislav Tikulin's striking artwork) for our third Showcase collection featuring fiction maverick Robert T Jeschonek - Mad Scientist Meets Cannibal.
Pretty, ain't it? Here's the jacket blurb to whet your appetite further:
Welcome to the world of Mad Scientist Meets Cannibal. Where else can you come face to face with a giant rhinoporcupine? Dream the future in a jazz tune from Hell? Hunt down outlaws who commit the crime of love? Eat a walking, talking human feast? Find passion behind the lab coat of a smoking hot mad scientist?
Only in Mad Scientist Meets Cannibal.
In these pages, Robert T. Jeschonek will take you on a tour of the wildest places and people you've never imagined. You've never met anyone quite like Dr. Hildegarde Medici, the mad scientist worshipped from afar by her twisted assistant, Glugor...or the Genebillies of Best Virginia, rip-snortin' genetic engineers in the moonshiner tradition...or Manny the Ration, an edible man who feeds more than empty stomachs in an alien landscape gone berserk.
If you're looking for something mind-blowing, you've come to the right place. In Mad Scientist Meets Cannibal, gonzo fictioneer Robert T. Jeschonek sets his wild imagination loose in five free-for-alls that set a new standard for storytelling. It's all about a cutting edge mêlée style, an in-your-face storytelling for the 21st century that mashes up genres, tones, expectations, and the most fundamental rules of stories and language. At the core of this engine of big ideas, startling imagery, and unexpected connections, you'll always find a pounding heart of love and longing and wonder, its power amplified by the revolutionary matrix roaring around it.
Take your first step into this breakthrough literary mêlée and experience a convergence of science fiction and fantasy...thrills and theories...tears and laughter...truth and lies...insanity and enlightenment. Ask yourself "What if?" and "Why not?" and "What the hell was that?" Most of all, kiss your preconceptions goodbye.
You're standing at the door to a big new treasure house, waiting for a key. And Robert T. Jeschonek just handed you a stick of dynamite.
What more can we say? To get your hands on a copy of this explosive mixture of genre tropes as soon as it becomes available, click through below to pre-order your copies right away!
- Mad Scientist Meets Cannibal - jacketed hardcover - £25.00 ($50.00 approx.) - 100 copies only
- Mad Scientist Meets Cannibal - hardcover - £10.00 ($20.00 approx.) - 300 copies only
Finished cover: The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliot
Posted by Paul Raven on May 12th, 2008 at 7:12
Another piece of artwork from the PS Publishing intray to brighten your Monday! Or perhaps not - I notice that I've subconsciously put this one off for a few days, and I reckon it's probably more than a little to do with my not-so-latent coulrophobia.
But nonetheless, here's Chris Roberts' eye-catching artwork:
Doubtless it's that very phobia that Will Elliot plays on in The Pilo Family Circus, which has a plot seemingly tailor-made to creep me out:
"Somewhere just above the searing flames of hell, The Pilo Family Circus is playing at a town near you. This darkest of carnivals has preyed on the souls of its audience for centuries and young Jamie has unfortunately just come the attention of the star turns - the baddest, most psychotic clown troupe you could never hope to meet.
What's more, they want him to join up ... and these are not the kind of folks who take no for an answer."
That's nightmare-inducing stuff from where I'm sat. Of course, those of you less petrified by clowns than myself may well be quite tempted by Will Elliot's surreal conceit, not to mention Roberts' artwork - in which case you should click through below and pre-order your copies.
- Slipcased hardcover - £50.00 ($100.00 approx.) 200 copies
- Hardcover - £20.00 ($40.00 approx.) 500 copies
Finished cover: ‘Template’ by Matthew Hughes
Posted by Paul Raven on May 7th, 2008 at 7:13
I guess I got lucky and joined PS Publishing on a particularly good month, because I've seen more quality artwork pass through my inbox than I'd ever had expected in such a short space of time. Point in case: Chris Erkmann's simple yet striking cover image for Template by Matthew Hughes.
It's arresting, isn't it? In which case it matches Robert Sawyer's opinion of the novel itself:
"Matthew Hughes's Template is many things - including a template others should follow to produce outstanding writing. Hughes has been the best-kept secret in SF for far too long: he's a towering talent, and Template is his best work to date. Bravo!"
- Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids.
With an introduction by prolific maestro of the short story Jay Lake, what more could you wish for? Click through to pre-order your copy of Template right away in one of two formats:
- Slipcased hardcover - £50.00 ($100.00 approx.) 200 copies
- Hardcover - £20.00 ($40.00 approx.) 500 copies
Finished covers: Return of the Crimson Guard by Ian C. Esslemont
Posted by Paul Raven on May 6th, 2008 at 7:19
We've received the final versions of the cover art for the two-volume set of Ian C. Esslemont's Return of the Crimson Guard, and I think you'll agree that Edward Miller has done a spectacular job - read the blurb alongside, and you can see that he has really caught the atmosphere of Esslemont's Malazan Empire:
The return of the mercenary company the Crimson Guard could not have come at a worse time for the Malazan Empire; drained by warfare, weakened by betrayal and rivalries, many see the grip of Empress Laseen weakening.
Conquered kingdoms and principalities test their old independence. Into this gathering civil war on Quon Tali - the Empire's homeland - comes the Guard. And with their return comes the memory of their hundred year old vow: undying opposition to the existence of the Empire.
Yet rivalries and betrayal stalk the Guard as well; for elements of its elite, the Avowed, scheme to open paths to even greater power. Ancient potent entities, Ascendants, also lend a hand exploiting all sides to further their own arcane ends.
Meanwhile, a swordsman, Traveller, and his companion Ereko, move from one strange encounter to another in a mysterious dance meant ultimately to bring the swordsman to a final confrontation from which none have ever returned.
As the Crimson Guard gathers itself from around the globe, Empress Laseen faces more immediate threats.
To feed her wars she has bled dry provincial garrisons across Quon Tali and now regional nationalists see their chance. Behind their insurrections stand the veteran commanders of Laseen's predecessor, Emperor Kellanved.
These generals and powerful mages, the "Old Hands," have lost patience with what they see as Laseen's mismanagement and have selected their own replacement.
Yet there are hints that Laseen may be using the uprisings to draw out and finally eliminate these last irksome survivors of her predecessor's rule...
Return of the Crimson Guard will be out very soon as a luxurious slipcased two-volume set - click through to the PS Webstore to pre-order your copy.
- Slipcased two-volume hardcover - £75 ($150 approx.), 300 copies
Finished cover: ‘The Economy Of Light’ by Jack Dann
Posted by Paul Raven on April 29th, 2008 at 6:40
Vincent Chong is a rising star of the genre fiction jacket art scene, with a distinctive and eye-catching style of his own. So, while it's been on display over in the PS Webstore for a week or so already, when I found Vinnie's cover art for the forthcoming Jack Dann novella The Economy Of Light in my backlogged inbox, I thought I should share it with the world at large:
Striking, isn't it?
The Economy Of Light will be released later this year in two formats - click through below to pre-order your copy!
- Jacketed hardcover edition - £25 (approx. $50); 200 copies only
- Hardcover edition - £10 (approx. $20); 500 copies only
Finished Cover: ‘PS Showcase #2 - Conscientious Inconsistencies’ by Nancy Jane Moore
Posted by Darren on March 29th, 2008 at 17:15
Here's the artwork for Conscientious Inconsistencies by Nancy Jane Moore; the second volume in our 'PS Showcase' series of mini-collections of brand new short stories by some of the best and brightest new writers on the genre fiction scene.
The instantly-recognisable style will tell you that this piece is by PS favourite Edward Miller.
PS Showcase #2: Conscientious Inconsistencies will be published in the next month or so, in two editions:
- Signed, jacketed hardcover - £25.00 / $50 (approx.) 100 copies
- Hardcover - £10.00 / $20.00 (approx.) 300 copies
Finished Cover: ‘Shrike’ by Quentin S. Crisp
Posted by Darren on March 29th, 2008 at 17:12
Another gorgeous piece of work by Vincent Chong will be gracing our edition of Quentin S. Crisp's novella Shrike when we publish later in the year. Here it is in all its glory:
Two editions are available to pre-order from the PS Webstore:
- Signed, jacketed hardcover - £25.00 / $50 (approx.) 200 copies
- Hardcover - £10.00 / $20.00 (approx.) 500 copies
Finished Cover: ‘Postscripts #14′ ed. by Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers
Posted by Darren on March 29th, 2008 at 17:07
Here's the riotously colourful cover for the next edition of our award-winning Postscripts Magazine, which we're expecting to ship to subscribers and pre-order customers in early April. The artwork - a mind-bending blend of surrealism, cubism and probably a couple more -isms besides - is by PS regular James Hannah.
Our fourteenth issue contains brand new fiction from Rhys Hughes, Paul Jessup, Guy Immega, Sarah Monette, Barry Wood, Robert Reed, William Alexander, Jetse de Vries, Jeff VanderMeer and Robert Weston.
It's available in two editions:
- Signed, limited hardcover - £25.00 / $50 (approx.) 200 copies
- Paperback - £6.00 / $12.00 (approx.)
And don't forget that four issue subscriptions are also available and every current and paid-up subscriber will receive a copy of our seasonal chapbook, round about the end of the year.
Finished Cover: ‘The Last Book’ by Zoran Zivkovic
Posted by Darren on March 29th, 2008 at 17:03
A deceptively simple, minimalist cover for this brand new novel by one of Serbia's finest literary sons, Zoran Živkovic:
The Last Book is just back from the printers and will be shipping to pre-order customers in the next few days in two editions:
- Signed, limited, slipcased hardcover - £50 / $100.00 (approx.) 200 copies
- Hardcover - £20 / $40.00 (approx.) 500 copies
Finished Cover: ‘The Situation’ by Jeff Vandemeer
Posted by Darren on February 26th, 2008 at 17:02
Here's the finalised cover for Jeff VanderMeer's forthcoming chapbook / novelette, The Situation, showing Scott Eagle's fabulous artwork in all its wrap-around glory:
The Situation will be back from the printers round about the third week in March, and will be available in two editions:
- Signed, Jacketed Hardcover, priced £15.00 ($30.00 approx.)
- Hardcover, priced £7.50 ($15.00 approx.)
Finished Cover: ‘The Luminous Depths’ by David Herter
Posted by Darren on February 11th, 2008 at 14:14
Vladimir Verano has provided the atmospheric artwork for our forthcoming novella by David Herter, The Luminous Depths, the sequel to his 2006 PS novella, On the Overgrown Path.
Finished Cover: ‘Thieving Fear’ by Ramsey Campbell
Posted by Darren on January 23rd, 2008 at 15:36
British Fantasy Award-winning artist Vincent Chong has pulled out all the stops yet again to produce another stunning cover image for us, this time for British horror maestro Ramsey Campbell's brand new novel, Thieving Fear, which we'll be publishing later in the year.
Here's a quick taster from the novel:
As the papers arrived beside her Charlotte saw they were bordered in black. She was about to take them when the person whose bones were digging into her left side did, and she noticed that his hand was covered more with soil than flesh.
The lift was so crowded that she couldn't retreat even an inch. She could only watch as he transferred the papers to his other shrivelled hand so as to grasp her face and twist it towards him. When her eyes strained to look away he released her and gestured at the doors, scattering earth like black dandruff on the shoulders of the woman in front of him.
The lift shuddered to a halt and the doors staggered apart. Then earth piled in, flinging everyone helplessly together on its way to filling her eyes and nose and mouth. Her companion seemed quite at home in it, because his fingers wriggled wormlike through it to fasten on her hand and pull her deeper into the suffocating dark...
And here's that cover art in all its glory:
New Artwork by Edward Miller Ian R. MacLeod’s ‘Song of Time’
Posted by Darren on January 23rd, 2008 at 15:28
It's another beauty from the legendary Edward Miller, this time for the cover of our forthcoming Ian R. MacLeod novel Song of Time, in which he "tells the story of this century through the eyes of a great musician as she unravels the mysteries of her past, and contemplates making the ultimate leap into life beyond the body."
New Artwork by Edward Miller for Ian C. Esslemont’s ‘Return of the Crimson Guard’
Posted by Darren on December 14th, 2007 at 16:30
Mr Esslemont's second novel - which is once again set in the same milieu as Stephen Erikson's Malazan Books of the Fallen - is an absolute monster of a book, weighing in at over 250,000 words. Which is why, instead of trying to cram them all into a single volume, we're releasing our first edition of Return of the Crimson Guard in a special two-volume set, slipcased and signed and priced at just £75 ($150 approx.) and we're aiming to publish in spring next year.
Plus, you get to own these two fabulous pieces of artwork on the covers of the two volumes, which have been created for us by the one and only Edward Miller (who sometimes answers to Les Edwards, if pressed on the issue...)
Finished Cover: ‘The City in These Pages’ by John Grant
Posted by Darren on December 14th, 2007 at 16:11
Another piece of finished cover artwork for you to feat your eyes on: this time it's John Grant's novella-length homage to the late, great Ed McBain, The City in These Pages and the artwork in question is by Vincent Chong.
Finished Cover: ‘Tales from the White Hart’ by Arthur C. Clarke
Posted by Darren on December 14th, 2007 at 15:55
Here's J.K. Potter's finished front cover artwork for our forthcoming collection of Arthur C. Clarke's Tales From the White Hart, which also features a brand new 'White Hart' story by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter.
Finished Covers: ‘Hello Summer, Goodbye’ and ‘I Remember Pallahaxi’ by Michael Coney
Posted by Darren on November 27th, 2007 at 8:01
Towards the end of the year we'll be publishing two novels by British science fiction writer Michael Coney. The first is his classic sf novel Hello Summer, Goodbye which was first published in 1975. The second is I Remember Pallahaxi, the previously unpublished sequel.
The two novels are available to pre-order now, either as separate volumes priced £20 ($40 approx.) each (click previous links for more information), or together in a two-volume slipcased set, priced £50 ($100 approx.)
Here are the finished covers, both with wonderfully evocative artwork by Edward Miller:
Finished Cover: ‘Postscripts #13′ edited by Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers
Posted by Darren on November 23rd, 2007 at 17:54
Here's the finished cover for Postscripts Issue #13, with original artwork ('Harpy Christmas!') by the one and only Les Edwards.
Prints of this image are available from Les's website, on the off-chance you've got some children you need to traumatise this holiday season or something...
New cover art for Ray Bradbury’s ‘Dandelion Wine’, 50th Anniversary edition
Posted by Darren on November 20th, 2007 at 9:34
There's been a slight change of plan here at PS Towers regarding the forthcoming 50th Anniversary edition of Ray Bradbury's classic novel Dandelion Wine. Pete will explain how it happened:
Hi Folks -
It was out of the blue. That's how it happened. We were all geared up to print Dandelion Wine when, completely unannounced, one of our fave artists, Tomislav Tikulin, sent us a copy of his latest work... and wouldn't you know it - it was Dandelion Wine! Not only that, but it's absolutely wonderful! I checked with Tomislav to make sure it was for sale and then (having had the thumbs-up) set to trying to figure out how best to shoehorn the second piece of cover artwork into the project.
It was fairly straightforward, as it turned out - ALL copies of the book will have Tomislav's artwork printed onto the boards, while the slipcased and deluxe editions will additionally have the original artwork (as advertised on the website this past few months) on a dust-jacket ON TOP of the illustrated boards.
Prices remain the same except for the trade edition which, because it will not now have a dust-jacket, we're reducing from £25/$50 to £20/$40. If you've paid in advance for that book, you will receive a refund of the extra £5/$10; either that or get in touch and use the overspend as credit on another book. It's your choice - we're easy either way.
This, may mean that the book takes a little longer to finalise and print, but crumbs... Dandelion Wine is one of my all-time favourite books. And that artwork is just superb. I mean... what could I do?! Or, for that matter... what would YOU have done?! See for yourself:
Cheers, Pete!
So, just to confirm, here are the full details for each edition:
Hardcover edition - £20.00 ($40.00 approx.) - 500 copies
This 'standard' edition will now feature the new Tomislav Tikulin artwork on a PPC cover - the artwork will be printed directly onto the book cover - and the book will no longer be supplied with a dust jacket. The price of this edition will also be dropped to £20 ($40 approx.) to reflect the lower production costs involved, and to bring it in line with the rest of the forthcoming PS titles. As Pete said, appropriate refunds will be given to anyone who has already paid the earlier, higher price.
Slipcased edition - £50.00 ($100 approx.) - 200 copies
The slipcased edition will also have the Tomislav Tikulin artwork printed onto the cover, and in addition will feature a dust-jacket with the original Amos Sewell illustration (as per our previous 'Finished Cover...' post. In effect, two jackets for the price of one, and no alteration in the price.
Deluxe Two Volume Slipcased edition - £375.00 ($750.00 approx.) - 100 copies
Likewise, the copy of Dandelion Wine included in the deluxe edition will also have the Tomislav Tikulin artwork printed onto the cover, and the Amos Sewell dust-jacket. The companion volume, Summer Morning, Summer Night will remain unchanged, featuring front and back cover artwork by Ray Bradbury himself.
If you have any questions at all, please send them to the general enquiries email address on the Contact Page.
Finished Cover: ‘Postscripts #12′ edited by Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers
Posted by Darren on October 27th, 2007 at 8:28
Here's the finished cover design for out forthcoming 12th issue of our Postscripts magazine, with artwork by Britist artist Ben Baldwin (whose website, incidentally, is packed full of stunning digital art images, drawings and paintings - go take a look.)
New Artwork by Ben Baldwin for ‘Postscripts issue #14 (definitely) #12′. As you were, everyone…
Posted by Darren on October 22nd, 2007 at 20:01
A correction of our earlier, (as it turns out) incorrect correction
>Ahem< - Earlier today I said the following:
Apologies to all for the confusion but I inadvertently mixed up the cover art for two forthcoming issues of Postscripts Magazine.
It turns out that the Ben Baldwin artwork I posted on Friday will actually be used on the cover of Issue #14 of the mag, not Issue #12 as I incorrectly stated. Issue #12 will instead be graced by cover art from regular PS artist James Hannah.
This came at the end of a mini-saga which started with our having to cancel the hitherto-planned and announced 'Holiday' issue of Postscripts from the 2007 schedule for reasons of time pressure and all the usual things that afflict independent presses the world over, we're sure (subscribers will of course be unaffected and anyone who ordered a copy of that issue will still receive the correct issue number, just maybe a couple of months later than expected).
At that point, following a slight failure on my part to read the appropriate memo, I updated the website catalogue to show Ben Baldwin's lovely artwork (below) as the cover of issue #12. Only to then discover that this was actually going to be the artwork for #14, with James Hannah crafting the artwork for #12 (as above). So I swapped them over. Which was fine, except for the fact that James Hannah has specifically illustrated (as we asked him to) the Paul Jessup story from issue #14, 'The Ghosts We Have Become', which - in our defence - you have to admit does sound almost spookily like the Paul Jessup story we're publishing in issue #12, 'Ghost Technology From the Sun'.
Anyway, you can see how things got just a teensy bit topsy-turvy at the end of a long and very busy website re-launch week here at PS Towers. Oh, how we laughed...
So, to finally re-confirm, for definite: the twelfth, Autumn issue of Postscripts Magazine will feature the Ben Baldwin's wonderfully Autumnal 'Liminal Spaces':
Whilst James Hannah's artwork, which we do now have on file and will feature on the blog in the near future, will now proudly take its place on the cover of Postscripts Issue #14.
This bit of my earlier post still holds true, so I'll leave it in [with embellishments]:
Apologies [yet] again, particularly to Ben and James; my bad entirely, I clearly didn't read the relevant memo [or, indeed, and quite possibly, memos] properly. I can only plead the couple of hundred [and then some] memos-per-week that have been circulating PS Towers like a flock of starlings on amphetamines [and several other class-A substances banned by international treaty] recently, what with the re-launch of the website and all. No excuse really, of course... if anyone needs me, I'll be in the corner with the dunce's hat on [tapping myself repeatedly on the head with a parsnip]...
Yours, comically (or should that be comic-tragically?)
Ariel
PS Webguy
New Artwork by Scott Eagle for ‘The Situation’
Posted by Darren on October 19th, 2007 at 18:15
There's already quite a buzz building up around The Situation, the Jeff VanderMeer chapbook novelette that we'll be publishing in Spring next year. Jeff has been revealing various snippets of info over on his blog, including an early, sneak-peek of the cover art roughs, which was subsequently spotted and commented upon by uber-blog Boing Boing.
And now, for the viewing pleasure of our readers, customers and friends, we're delighted to be able to present the final wrap-around version of Scott Eagle's quite fabulous artwork, in all its surreal and truly Weird glory:
As one commenter on Jeff's blog suggested, this really should be available on a poster...
Finished Cover: ‘The Crystal Cosmos’ by Rhys Hughes
Posted by Darren on October 19th, 2007 at 18:03
I think our chief designer Robert Wexler Luis Rodrigues* has produced a very stylish and extremely effective final cover treatment for our forthcoming Rhys Hughes novella The Crystal Cosmos, keeping the typography elegantly simple and allowing Tomislav Tikulin's faboulous artwork to do the talking:
*Apologies to Luis...