What with all the trailer hoopla, I forgot to post a new illustration at the beginning of the month! So it’s time for more Leviathan art!
You may have notices that the first three images were all from the Darwinist side of things. (That is, weird beasties.) This was an oversight on my part, because the Clanker side of the war (weird machines) is equally cool.
So I give you . . . the Cyklop Stormwalker!
One of the main reasons I chose Keith Thompson is his equal facility with strange creatures and fantastical machines. That’s the whole point of the series, after all, to see two distinct technologies (or ideologies, or aesthetics, or world views) at war with each other—one biological, the other mechanical. So to make the contest fair, neither one can look better than the other. I think you’ll agree, both are slathered with awesome sauce.
Again, this is only one of fifty pieces of interior art. Two percent!
Click here to see the other three images I’ve revealed.
And if none of this made sense to you, click here to see the Leviathan trailer, WICKED BIG-STYLE.
Update: Forgot to mention that Justine and I will be appearing at Teen Author Reading Night in NYC this Wednesday!
September 9, 6:00-7:30PM
Jefferson Market Branch of NYPL
425 6th Ave, at 10th St.
Gordon Korman, Pop
Justine Larbalestier, Liar
David Levithan, Love is the Higher Law
E. Lockhart, The Treasure Map of Boys
Lauren McLaughlin, Recycler
Bennett Madison, The Blonde of the Joke
Dan Poblocki, The Stone Child
Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan
September 6th, 2009 20:08
that is MOST defrinitly
SLATHEED in awsome sauce.
so coolll….=]
first comment!
September 6th, 2009 20:13
Cool
September 6th, 2009 20:17
Wow! your right, smothered in awesome sauce!
September 6th, 2009 20:33
awesome sauce, I MUST START USING THAT IN MY EVERYDAY SPEECH.
ack! I’m so excited.
September 6th, 2009 21:41
Awesome sauce…. Sounds like a tasty brand of hamburger topping!
Great art Scott-la! Looks somewhat terrifingly real… well c ya! 
September 6th, 2009 21:59
Wicked. Nothing like Robots vs. Monsters.
September 6th, 2009 22:16
Ahhh, seeing all the awesome artwork is torture!!! I really want to read Leviathan, and all the amazing artwork only makes me want it more!!!
I need Leviathan!
Is there any way I could get an ARC?
September 6th, 2009 22:19
yay…I cant wait for it to come out
there are so many books out and coming out right now
there is just to many
September 6th, 2009 22:38
Thanks for the picture, it does look great. Finally we get to see a war machine that PETA would approve of.
September 7th, 2009 00:34
Wow I’m so excited for the books! The cool pictures are just the icing on the cake, well more like sauce.
September 7th, 2009 04:00
OMG!!!!!! Keith Tompson can DRAW!!!!!!!!!!! Those pics are totally fool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 7th, 2009 04:51
Now my parents will know what I want for my birthday. A Stormwalker.
September 7th, 2009 05:43
i could probably just go back to another blog or look somewhere, but im to lazy…whens the exact date leviathon comes out again?
octoberr…
September 7th, 2009 05:47
Wow. thats an Ocean of awesomness! i can Not wait for The book to come Out!
September 7th, 2009 05:59
oooooh! prettyful!!!
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
September 7th, 2009 06:51
YAY!!!! I can’t wait for October 6th! I have one more month to wait.
PS (I ask again) Anything on the Uglies Movie?
September 7th, 2009 06:59
Here at Dragon*Con & wishing you’d come back!
September 7th, 2009 07:03
w00t!
i will ad awesome sauce to my slanguage vocab
the pics are utterly slathered with awesome sauce~~~~
ping @ Jessica-la,
i agree, it is fool
hehehe
September 7th, 2009 08:35
I cannot wait for this book. It sounds so completely amazing! Attempting to describe it to someone makes it sound really lame… but I just know it’ll be awesome. It’s history completely mixed up, and the scifi factor added to historical fiction has rarely been done before. Plus, it has illustrations. A picture book for teenagers. It’s just… indescribable, at the moment. The illustrations look amazing from what you’ve revealed so far, and I’m so glad I’ve preordered this so I can get it the moment it arrives. I’M SO EXCITED! (and I just can’t hide it)
September 7th, 2009 12:40
When I get this book the first thing I’m going to do is run through the shopping centre yelling, ‘It’s a book with pictures! For people my age – and it’s OK!’
And then I shall take it home and read it, because that’s what normal people do. You know. Awesome picture as always.
September 7th, 2009 18:58
Isn’t ‘stormwalker’ a starwars word? idk but i’ve heard it somewhere…
September 7th, 2009 20:26
oooo!
one month away….
&&when is the boxed Uglies set coming out? I could’ve sworn… or maybe I’m wrong.
September 7th, 2009 23:16
lol
ping @ Julie-wa,
Uglies boxed set has been out for months!
Well at least in Canada…
I even have it!!
yay!!
though I had to throw out the box because a few ants got attracted to it
September 8th, 2009 02:16
ping@Beli-wa
oh?
I thought one was coming out that would include Extras… I guess I was misinformed.
Thanks!
September 8th, 2009 03:03
Ping @ Julie-wa,
OH!
i thought you meant the Uglies trilogy boxed set, cause that one already cam out.
as for the Uglies, Pretties, Specials, Extras boxed set ill check up on that.
September 8th, 2009 03:39
That thing is INTENSE! Can’t wait to read this book
September 8th, 2009 03:41
hey scott no offense nut why do you always post Leviathan things?
is there any news on MIDNIGHTERS?
September 8th, 2009 04:52
Yes, there’s a *full* boxed set of Uglies coming out, with Extras too. It comes out October 28. See here:
http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/?p=875
-scott
September 8th, 2009 08:05
oh, yay!
I got Uglies from a good friend, purchased Pretties… but when I heard about a full boxed set… I refrained form purchasing Specials and Extras… although I have bought Bogus to Bubbly
I am saving up for the full boxed set… then I’ll give away my extra copies of Uglies and Pretties so the genius of Scott Westerfeld will spread farther ^_^
then I still need Mind-Rain…
September 9th, 2009 01:31
i don’t have mind-rain either, they don’t it at my book store, sigh, i wish i had it.
September 9th, 2009 01:47
ewwww first day of school…lame!
September 9th, 2009 02:37
LOTS of awesome sauce!!! very cool, i cannot WAIT until this book comes out. even as a poor college student, i’ll be spending my money on leviathan.
September 9th, 2009 03:20
Kristina-la, I know what you mean!!!
dude, all the kids i hate are in my class this year!! Waaa…
i only have 2 friends in there too… sighhhhh
September 9th, 2009 05:18
These pictures just keep getting better … i literally cant wait for this book.!!!
September 9th, 2009 08:57
Anyone here know if Scott reads these comments/if there’s a way I can get into contact with Scott? I can understand if it’ll be a while before he gets back to me, but I have a few extremely important questions I need to ask him, and I need to make sure they at least get through to him.
September 9th, 2009 16:37
@ Maldeus: on the side bar it says ‘contact Scott’ and you can click on that and email him.
Scott: That is so awesome. Like, really. You should have the illustrations on special shiny paper set into the book.
One thing–just in case you DO read all these comments (if so, bravo to you!)… do you really get to choose your own illustrator? I thought the publishers chose it for you.
September 9th, 2009 17:20
That is fan-freaking-tastic.
*is at school*
*sigh*
: D
September 9th, 2009 19:28
I havn’t been to all my classes yet(we only go to the first one on day 1)
so i dont know yet, but our school has changed everything, and it really sucks
our school is currently painted half poop yellow, a bit grey-purple, and a bit blue
they are just so welfare that they can’t aford to paint the whole thing one colour
September 10th, 2009 04:03
Yay!!
Scott-la actually reads the comments!
Very happy-making!!
September 10th, 2009 05:12
gaaah!! this stinks! now I want to read the book even more!! come on october hurry up, your making me feel bogus!
September 10th, 2009 07:34
Ping to ximena. I know what you mean! Waiting totally sucks!!!! OCTOBER YOUR BEING BOGUS!!
September 11th, 2009 05:34
oh poop….I just herd about a writers conference in my city…..which excited me…but none of the kool authers will be there
Scott….you should come to Surrey sometime…or vancouver
September 11th, 2009 20:15
That was so FAWESOME! Can’t wait can’t wait can’t wait! Totally happy-making!
September 12th, 2009 06:57
less than a month until leviathan!!!!!!
September 12th, 2009 22:20
http://keithwormwood.deviantart.com/art/Alek-and-his-Stormwalker-136696011 Gasp! There is already fanart on devart about Leviathan! Or is that from the Artist? Because the machine and Alek look perfect
September 13th, 2009 06:06
i luv it scott la! and i just made a twitter so i can follow u on it
September 13th, 2009 08:43
This looks awesome!!! I’m so excited about Leviathan!!! Partly because I fly (airplanes not beasties) and reading the “Darwinist†section got me really excited! I’ve had it on pre-order for months… I think my dad will go crazy if I bring it up one more time, lol.
(PS sorry for posting in the wrong place earlier
)
September 13th, 2009 17:02
It’s amazing ! :0 I can’t say anything else !
October 27th, 2009 01:07
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Is this tragedy true?
February 4th, 2010 15:45
Awesome I adore examples of articles which were written, and especially the comments posted! I’ll come back!
March 2nd, 2010 07:10
Lots of Great information in your posting, I bookmarked your blog so I can visit again in the near future, Thanks, Anamaria Hurston
March 10th, 2010 21:49
Now that I am thinking…Fawful DOES need some Clanker parts….
February 13th, 2011 13:46
I just started reading the Leviathan, and I’m already captivated! The art and the story really compliment each other well. Somebody built a really decent Stormwalker in Lego:
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/239210
And another worth looking at:
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/250766
April 19th, 2011 22:07
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