So the voting on my last post seems to be overwhelmingly in favor of the Leviathan bridge as the first art reveal. Well, it turns out I don’t have a hi-res file for anything in the Manual!
HAH!
So yes, I’ve sent off to Keith, and it should be here soon. In the meantime, please enjoy the Russian cover of Behemoth:
That’s pretty bad-ass. I love the giant Sahmeran sneaking up on Alek from behind.
Okay the BRIDGE ART WILL BE HERE SOON.
Also, don’t forget that tomorrow is my thing at the Sydney Writers Festival:
A Neverending Story: Fantasy Worlds
Sunday, May 20
11:30AM-12:30PM
Scott Westerfeld, Isobelle Carmody, Justine Larbalestier, and Joy Lawn (facilitator)
Sydney Dance 4, Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
May 19th, 2012 06:03
FIRST COMMENT.
As always….
May 19th, 2012 06:14
\O/ first time commenting! THIS IS SOOOO EPIC. All that detail!
May 19th, 2012 07:12
Yeah your thing tomorrow. Very excited.
May 19th, 2012 08:10
I have never wanted to be Russian more in my entire life.
*sigh*
May 19th, 2012 09:32
OH…MY…GOD… That Russian cover is all kinds of epic! I agree with Hannah-la.
I knew the bridge would win, I could sense it. I think the fléchette bat was a close second, though.
I didn’t know your name was spelled differently in Russian. I thought names were spelled pretty much however the owner decided they should be spelled.
May 19th, 2012 13:00
Actually there are pretty solid rules about spelling foreign names.
And as for Scott’s name in particular, it sounds almost the same as in English, even if it may not look like it to you. It’s just Cyrillic messing up with you 
Hey all, did you see new Russian covers to other Scott’s books?
These are for Midnighters 1 (in two editions) and 2: http://fantlab.ru/images/editions/big/32842
http://fantlab.ru/images/editions/big/77255
http://fantlab.ru/images/editions/big/80665
This is Extras: http://fantlab.ru/images/editions/big/68179
Couldn’t find the bigger resolution, sorry.
And these are nice and big Peeps and The Last Days:
http://fantlab.ru/images/editions/plus/big/71767_1
http://fantlab.ru/images/editions/plus/big/76877_1
http://fantlab.ru/images/editions/big/76877 (small version of Last Days with the book title)
May 19th, 2012 15:13
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
May 19th, 2012 17:01
Holy Crap!! I LOVE that cover!!!
May 19th, 2012 17:21
Scott, you troll. I’m kidding, I’m kidding. Love that cover.
May 19th, 2012 18:17
Why do the Russians always have the best covers of all of your books?
May 19th, 2012 18:38
Alek looks like a cowboy spy with a sword XD
May 19th, 2012 18:40
Okay, maybe not cowboy (What was I thinking), more like a british pirate from Pirates in the Carribean. Whatever they’re called.
May 19th, 2012 19:41
Why are the Russian covers so coll and BA?!?!?!?!?!
May 19th, 2012 20:48
Why are the Russian covers so much better than ours? We should print these out and tape them over the covers of our books.
May 19th, 2012 22:18
quick question, Scott–who designed the Russian cover?? you? Keith? that’s totally rockin’ !
May 19th, 2012 23:25
Why, oh why are the foreign covers for any book I have ever seen always so much cool than the ones here?
May 19th, 2012 23:37
Also, has anyone else noticed that on the US LBG covers, the people who I must assume are meant to be Alek and Deryn have the wrong eye and hair colors to be either of them? I mean, really, they used a total of four different people on three covers, and all of them have brown eyes and brown hair. Did the people who picked the models even read the books enough to know what the models were supposed to look like?
May 20th, 2012 01:13
It’s not as cool as the Japanese cover of Leviathan, but at least he doesn’t look twelve (again).
I am in love with Scrivener…. I watch tutorials over and over…. I wish I could get it….
By the way, Rose, I totally agree with you (as an owner of all three US copies). Sigh…. Although I’m not completely fond of this Russian Alek because he doesn’t look like Alek. There were very people who actually had common sense when it came to the covers. (Meaning: Why don’t they just use an illustration from inside the book? I don’t know. Maybe because that would be entirely too logical.)
May 20th, 2012 03:42
*Sigh* I guess we’ll be waiting a while for some Clanker tech reveals. But the bridge will still be awesome. WILL be. No high-res, hmm?
I’ll never understand why foreign covers are always way more awesome than the U.S. covers.
May 20th, 2012 08:50
@16 acrually, they use the same 2 models for all three books. And you dont see Deryn’s hair so you can’t say it’s the wrong color. The photos are also in sepia so, even though the model for Alek DOES have brown hair, it could possibly be reddish brown.Though I do find it funny how Alek is tall on the Goliath cover. Him and his box.
May 20th, 2012 09:21
Wow, I jusy realized Sahmeran is cross-eyed.
May 20th, 2012 13:29
I actually think the Russian covers are better than the American ones. But to me the British ones suck the most. Just what have they done to the Percy Jackson series!!!!???? -______________-
May 20th, 2012 18:09
Curses no art reveal! Why do US covers always suck and Russian ones always rock? Tis not fair.
May 20th, 2012 20:48
@19, actually, if you look at the credits for the photos, and do some basic internet research, you’ll find that thet did use different models. And, unless the model for Deryn dyed her eyebrows, her hair is brown, too.
May 20th, 2012 21:55
Let me verify: I love the covers for the US. As a proud owner of all three, I think they are beautiful. BUT the Russian covers do look really kick butt. And Alek is hunky on this cover. Don’t get me wrong: he wasn’t bad on the US covers…. :O
But lets dissect this a little more. The lightning in the background is a nice touch, really. The Sahmeran is really cool too. The hands. The weapons of doom on the back. It’d be totally terrifying if it were following me through the city!
May 21st, 2012 00:40
It’s times like these that I wish I was Russian.
May 21st, 2012 01:40
There are always two things that America can’t get right.
Book covers and movie posters. xD
May 21st, 2012 11:08
your name in Russian is hilarious
May 22nd, 2012 03:07
@Carol. I was just about to point that out! Ckott. I’m going to start spelling my brother’s name that way (he’s a Scott, too.)
May 22nd, 2012 03:09
@20. So you saw that FanArt, too?
May 22nd, 2012 03:12
@19. NO CLANKERS EVER. Because the MoA is BRITISH and therefore DARWINIST. Ha.
May 24th, 2012 06:25
I love your name in Russian, Scott.
May 25th, 2012 20:39
That’s cool… I guess.
May 25th, 2012 20:40
Alek, is WAY off though.
May 26th, 2012 02:14
@6- I would totally read Midnighters, just for the covers.
May 26th, 2012 11:03
WHY DON’T WE GET COVERS LIKE THIS?!?!?!?!?!? That is wicked!
I really need to learn Russian now. Is there a Russian here who wouldn’t mind doing a mass clearance of all of his books in the stores and shipping them to us Americans just so we can have the covers?
June 9th, 2012 21:36
This makes me so happy… Sahmeran TOTALLY deserves to be on the cover. Yanno, ‘cuz Zaven and Alek are my favorite characters.