My inbox just received this boo-ti-ful image. It’s the painting for the Chinese cover of Leviathan. The artist is Li Tao. (Li is the surname, and the artist is male, just so you know.)
Click here for the bigness, because the bigness is bigger.
Needless to say, I love this cover image. It has a wonderfully exuberant forward motion to it, not unlike this Chinese propaganda poster. Or this one! (I mean, it’s just dying to be remixed into a poster, IF THAT SHOULD OCCUR TO ANYONE.) I also really love the styling of the Leviathan overhead, and the Hapsberg seal. So much heraldry!
Can’t wait to see the final version with text and my name in Chinese on it. (Just to be clear, this is the simplified Chinese version, for the mainland.)
Dr. Barlow portrait from The Manual of Aeronautics coming soon!
August 12th, 2012 04:34
Oh good gravy. This is probably one of the most gorgeous things I have ever seen. *drools upon it*
I desire it for myself.
…
*tears self away, mournfully*
August 12th, 2012 04:37
Oh man, I’d love a poster of this to hang on my wall. Gorgeous colors, composition, everything!
August 12th, 2012 04:57
Wow! I really LOVE the Chinese cover. The artwork is pretty epic in a completely awesome!!
August 12th, 2012 04:59
I would buy that poster. Fosho.
August 12th, 2012 05:29
WOW WOW WOW! Its fantastic, the colors are beautiful!
p.s. Sharp is my hero
August 12th, 2012 05:33
That is absolutely gorgeous, it needs to be a poster now!
August 12th, 2012 06:03
This is completely stunning. I don’t know what else to say about it.
August 12th, 2012 06:31
1) I’m gone for two weeks on vacation and this is all you have?!?!?!?!?! Sad! (faf).
2) MM: You knocked me out?
2b) By Newkirk, I mean, it was a cheap blow, but still!
2c) NEWKIRK STOLE ZEUS! How dare you.
3) Rigger uniform= awesome possum!
4) Come on, all foreign covers are awesome!
That is all.
August 12th, 2012 06:48
Mind blowing.
August 12th, 2012 07:05
Hohohoho I’ll be seeing this soon in local bookstores in Hong Kong~~ And don’t worry Scott, I’ll recommend this to all my friends who refuse to read English books!!! But seriously. This cover alone is enough to attract readers
August 12th, 2012 10:59
That is BEAUTIFUL. I would buy that as a poster in a heartbeat.
August 12th, 2012 13:22
omygoodness can i buy a chinese leviathan now please??
August 12th, 2012 16:52
wow. and ‘simplified’ chinese is Mandarian.
August 12th, 2012 17:43
That picture just made my day! I love it!
August 12th, 2012 18:45
Wow!
I can’t wait to add this to the Books of Scott Westerfeld site. I’ll have to create a new Chinese (Simplified) section now that there will be more than one title in that language.
August 12th, 2012 19:18
Woah… That was… Woah.
August 12th, 2012 19:56
omg deryn’s face XD XD
August 12th, 2012 20:22
WOW WOW WOW!!! totally awesome! i hope Keith isn’t jealous…
August 12th, 2012 22:05
This is amazing! I love how Deryn’s pose reflects her energy and personality and Alek’s pose reflects his nobleness. …Amazingness…
August 12th, 2012 22:33
I LOVE THIS COVER! It is gorgeous! I love all the colors and everything. I would absolutely love a poster of this, how do you get one?
(Although, can I just say Alek kinda looks like a girl?)
August 13th, 2012 03:29
It’s super pretty but I have to agree with Roxanne on the Alek looking like a girl part. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought this lol.
At least now he is literally the “boy” he always wanted to be xD
August 13th, 2012 03:33
This is just…. EPIC! Not nearly as epic as the Russian cover(s), but pretty darn close. Go foreign covers!!!
August 13th, 2012 04:09
i’m just asking the foreign Leviathan fans here, why do you have to be so awesomely epicly amazing/
August 13th, 2012 06:12
@20/21: You get that Alek’s on the roof, not in the door right?
August 13th, 2012 06:23
Meh…this is okay. But it’s still better than us Anerican’s measly, boring covers. I agree with Scorpio-Ferret; all the foreign covers are so AMAZING!!!
August 13th, 2012 09:02
WOO! my first comment, and I’m doing this to say that I went to Shared Worlds, and met Naomi Novik because I first herd about it here, so thanks Scott Westerfeld, for being the reason I went to Shared Worlds and wrote a story that got reviewed by Karen Lowachee!
August 13th, 2012 16:06
Ginny-la, i think the American cover and the Australian cover are the same thing. don’t be mean to Scott. our covers are still good, right?…just not as good.
August 13th, 2012 16:08
by the way it’s good to know at least one fellow isolated, hard-to-come-by American fan!
August 13th, 2012 16:54
Why does the walker have a head and “eye”? Why is the cannon on the left instead of the right? Why does the walker have arms and hands?… :/
Anyway’s good drawing.
August 14th, 2012 02:07
Awesome cover. Love it. Thanks for sharing Scott!!
August 14th, 2012 04:50
omg awesome cover! if that was a poster i would sooooo buy it
great job Li Tao
August 14th, 2012 05:39
So this is where everyone dissapeared to! I was getting lonely over at art reveal 5a. Anyway… Awesome cover. Makes me feel sad to be stuck with these unbreathtaking american covers. The french cover, or at least the french-canadian cover, is the same as the american one. Though the french canadian cover for City of Bones is waaayyy awesomer than the american one.
August 14th, 2012 07:09
I have
August 14th, 2012 07:11
Gah! I accidentally posted that PAY NO MIND TO IT!!!
I meant to say:
I have a MAJOR sunburn and it’s KILLING ME……ugh….
August 14th, 2012 08:38
PWH! Finaly, someone I’ve comunicated with before on here!
Anyway, Scorpio-ferret, at one time American posts dominated this blog. We’d usually post over 500 comments a week, but after a year we’ve started to slow down. Not that the book isn’t still awesome, we’ve just shared our thoughts so much on the book that anymore would make it creepy. One creepy thing I know is that there used to be at least three other Iowa citizens who were regulars, one californian, and someone else from the central time zone.
August 14th, 2012 08:40
And so the old share with the new a dimond in the rough left for others to enjoy, may you have as many laughs, crazy arguments, and great conversations as we have had.
August 14th, 2012 08:41
Not that we’re actually all that old, just that we’ve been doing this for a while.
August 14th, 2012 08:58
Awesome! But the Stormwalker looks a bit more golden and futuristic than I’d remembered. I think it’s the smashed up scene (or maybe the Stormwalker grew graspers and an eye), but it looks more shiny even that way. A few creative liberties to create a completely epic cover are wholly acceptable, though. Why can’t our covers look like this?
Li Tao did a wonderful job!
August 14th, 2012 16:28
@35- And I’m from New Hampshire!
August 14th, 2012 18:41
I would buy this if it was a poster. That’s how much I love it. I’d hang it in my dorm room. I’m sure my roomies wouldn’t mind a bit.
August 14th, 2012 19:12
I’m from California!
August 15th, 2012 00:53
Nice to see some of us are still here PWH and Jedi. Where’d everyone else go?
August 15th, 2012 06:23
Is anybody here from Nebraska????
August 15th, 2012 06:30
@42: I’m actually relatively new to this blog (if half a year is short). I think everyone not here has just lost interest.
Oh, and I’m from Coruscant.
(That wink means I’m joking, by the way. In case you were wondering how I hacked the Internet from Coruscant.)
August 15th, 2012 06:36
@44- yeah, I’ve only been on the blog since March or April or something. So about half a year.
August 15th, 2012 06:38
Well, to clarify, I’ve been reading the blog since last October but being the scared little person I am, I didn’t comment for another half year.
August 15th, 2012 08:54
@PWH: I think I just read for a while too, then I accidentally insulted the first person I tried to chat with on this blog, in January. Not a good start, but now I just try to avoid that by being relevant to the subject(s) at hand (if I can be, of course
).
August 16th, 2012 07:28
I’ve been on since about the beginning of this year…maybe. ?-? I remember the good ol’ days when I was still Midshipman Joseph…
August 17th, 2012 06:08
I’ve been on since before Goliath came out. Back the I was “angry but dedicated.” (I was angry the book was taking so long to come out, then it came out and I became M@X.)
August 17th, 2012 08:06
@49: That was about the time I first came across this blog. I think I was quite lucky to read the Leviathan series after all the books were out. Only just after, but that was nice to not have to wait. I have done that with other series (Series’?) as well. It helps keep some anger from forming, I think. I was lucky, though.
August 17th, 2012 18:23
I first came on the blog by accident. It was the day after christmas and my cousin and I were trying to lable my map of Europe clanker and darwinist. I think we decided to do a google search for a leviathan map so it would be easier and we somehow came across the goliath bonus chapter. Best day of my life. I think I read the series about 5 times total in the month of November. And that is my little story for you all today.
August 18th, 2012 13:21
Greetings from China! So surprised to learn that it’s gonna be Chinese version, WOW!!! Barking spiders, this cover is totally awesome!
August 22nd, 2012 02:28
Awesome cover, I love it! One of my favorite foreign ones.
Though er… Did anyone else notice that the Hapsburg double-eage is now holding a hammer & sickle? When did the Hapsburgs become communists o_O ?
August 25th, 2012 02:20
Looks like the cover of a Final Fantasy version of Leviathan…LIKE!
August 29th, 2012 22:19
i’m frantically trying to get in the last bits of freedom i can before school starts ominously soon, so i’m just reading all the comments. i’m glad not to be too different from the rest of you, SteampunkJedi and PWH and Ginny-la and M@X. little bit of discovery, i just had.
August 29th, 2012 22:20
and good point, Alex, since when was Austria communist???
August 31st, 2012 20:26
okay, i guess i’m the only one still looking at this page. too far in the past, i guess.
September 24th, 2012 10:37
I just LOVE this cover!
December 9th, 2012 02:12
LOVE the series mr. westerfeld. please make more! I REALLY LOVE SHARP, and the story’s perfect!