Vote for Goliath Reveal

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Okay, it’s time to reveal the first piece of art from Goliath, book three of the Leviathan trilogy. But I can’t choose which one is best to show, so I’ve thought of something more fun than deciding on my own.

YOU, dear readers, shall decide for me.

Below are three partially revealed images. Vote in the comments for the one you want me to show in its entirety. (To make vote counting easy, please use the chapter number to identify your favorite.) Feel free to explain your vote, thus persuading others to your cause! After all, a lively debate is the beating heart of democracy.

FROM CHAPTER ONE
“Two-Headed Messenger”
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FROM CHAPTER TWO
“Secrets in the Rookery”
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FROM CHAPTER THREE
“Hooking the Package”
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There you go. Let the vote-carnage begin!

273 thoughts on “Vote for Goliath Reveal”

  2. FROM CHAPTER TWO
    “Secrets in the Rookery”
    Please? I Can’t wait. This book is gonna be so LEGIT!

  7. Gahhhh. I take it you mean “more fun” in a “tantalize-the-readers-with-three-tidbits-of-Goliath-art-wonderfulness-but-hide-the-most-important-parts-of-the-art-and-force-them-to-chose” way. 🙂
    Cruel.
    ha.

    But I pick number 2. Looks promising. (Heck, they all do, but “secrets” are always intriguing.)
    Will we get to see the other two before October?

  9. OMJ AM I SERIOUSLY ONLY THE 2ND PERSON TO COMMENT?! I feel proud (:

    Definitely Chapter 3, Hooking the Package.

    WHY:
    [hypothesis, Scott, please don’t laugh if I am completely and totally wrong…] Well, the two-headed messenger is just going to be some beastie that we learn about later, and secrets in the rookery, lets face it, is just going to be Alek and Deryn togetherish. The hooking the package is the only one that might give us a snitchy clue to the plot of Goliath.

  10. While I do believe that all of them are equally FANTASTIC. I will go with CHAPTER 2! My reason being the title is just makes me WAY TOO CURIOUS. XD And I see Bovril. So that’s a BIG PLUS.

    I VOTE CHAPTER 2.

  12. TWO TWO TWO TWO!

    It’s title involves SECRETS, and everyone knows secrets are the best things ever. Plus, it has SHOES, which are the second best things ever, and Bovril, who is the most adorable thing ever!
    I am so excited i don’t even.. giejutie0tpoe4jtsd

  13. CHAPTER TWO!

    “Secrets in the Rookery”! Reveal the art, reveal the secrets! (well, sort of.)

  15. chapter two please!!!! i want to know some implicated secrets!! and the first one looks like barlow to me. i mean, i see a bowler hat and a wing! i hope deryn tells alek in this one! do u here me scott westerfeld!?!?! *but secretly i dont want them together from a fangirl point of view because alek is mine*

  20. Chapter two! I’m hoping it’s an Alek and Deryn scene. Definitely sounds like it could be. 😉

  22. I vote for the first one… can my vote count double because it’s my birthday and this is the ultimate present?

  25. I vote for #2

    number one is Dr. Barlow with a 2-headed bird fabrication & number 3 is most likely Daryn doing something dangerous involving beasties, but I can’t tell what 2 is.

  30. Ah, I’m completely torn between all three!!

    I have to choose for chapter two’s “Secrets in the Rookery.” The word “secret” is just too tempting to pass up.

  41. Erm… mine did not seem to appear. If it does, sorry. It’s not showing up for me.
    I vote for NUMBER TWO – SECRETS IN THE ROOKERY! Why?
    Number one is Dr. Barlow. She’s lovely and everything, but not my main focus.
    Number three is probably just a standard Deryn swinging around, etc. action scene. Also cool, but not the major thing.
    Number two… SECRETS? FEET! Perhaps Deryn finally spilling her secret. Alek with his jaw hanging open! It must be NUMBER TWO!!!

  43. Scott, please reveal one for me… Please… Everyone wants two, so I guess you’ll reveal two (it is fair, after all), but can’t we see one and two? I really want to see one…

  45. Chapter two! All of them look (from the bit I can see) to be amazing, but I’m most curious about that one; after all it has the word SECRETS in it! 😉

  50. PPPLLLLEEEEASSSSEEEE chapter one! Just let us see both! The people have spoken! One and two!

  51. I’m laughing so hard right now! Scott must’ve known how popular chapter two would’ve been, just because of the word “secrets”. But, regardless if it’s Deryn’s secret or not, I’m still super, super curious and excited for that picture to be revealed!

  53. Chapter three “Hooking the package”!! That’s because it looks the most exciting and action packed! 🙂

  57. Ooh, number two! It’s the most mysterious by far!!! Secret? I want to know the secret!!!!!!

  60. As much as I’m a total freak about goof in order I have to say 2, why??-

    A. That’s what’ll end up being anyway, so why waste my precious vote

    B. SECRET!!!

    C. Bovril is so adorable

    D. Chapter one will be all intro and face it lame, and three will be all battle war boom-boom stuff……

    E. I’m a sucker for good romance, which I’m hoping is happening with Mr Alek and the chick in chapter 2!!!

  63. Woohoho! *-* This book is going to be awsome!!
    I choose n.2, with no doubts! I mean, people, we all like secrects xD Plus it looks a bit like it’s going to be an Alek&Deryn image. Don’t you wanna see if I’m roght about that!?!? I do! *-*

  68. I am going with chapter 3, I don’t want to know any plot twists such as capter two.

  69. Chapter 2!

    I’m torn between that and Chapter 3, but I can’t resist a potential Alek and Derryn in the rookery image.

  70. I chose chapter 2 (1 was close behind) before I’d read everyone else’s votes, and I see my vote is practically superfluous 😉 Is it perspicacious, though? Well, I think I can more or less figure out #1 or at least imagine something, but to me #2 remains… elusive, and full of possibilities. Je croise les doigts !

  71. Chapter 2 “Secrets in the Rookery”!

    Hope it is someting about the main romance…

  73. Ahah I see that I’m not the only one looking forwards to see a romance in Goliath.

    I think the worst thing that could happen would be a cliffhanger ending with Deryn saying “I’m a girl” and then.. the End.

  78. Chapter 2, for the secrets, of course — what’s more intriguing than a secret? (Though the “two-headed messenger” caption for chapter 1 reminds me that the Hapsburg eagle is two-headed …)

  81. 3!
    As intresting as #2 sounds with the secrects and all #3 has a lot more going on! Besides I’m sure both will include our favorite charactors 😉

  83. OMG

    Secrets in the Rookery!!

    Guys.. SECRETS. SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECREETTTTSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

    What SECRET does Deryn have??? THAT SHE’S A GIRL!! Come on! Number two allll the way. I’m so excited for Deryn and Alek and i just want to know that Alek finds out, the rest of the plot i can wait until september!!!!

    Let’s go #2!!!!!!!

  85. Chapter 2, definitely, but if you want to reveal them all to your hungry audience – I won’t complain. 🙂

  86. Chapter 2!!!!
    First of all…. It has the word SECRETS in it which automatically means that we either learn or at least half-learn secrets… and we all know that the characters in these books have secrets!
    Pluse, it’s just looks mysterious and secretive… giving me and many other voters a desperate need to know who is behind that big white rectangle!!!!
    Come on everybody, CHAPTER 2: SECRETS IN THE ROOKERY!

    (If you totally hate Chapter 2… at least vote for Chapter 3, please, my fellow voters.)

  88. Chapter Two!! 😀 Definitely!! ((Though I certainly wouldn’t mind eventually seeing them all before the release.))

  89. I’m going to vote for #2, Secrets in the Rookery, mostly because I can’t figure it out as much as the others.

    The first one is pretty clearly Dr. Barlow with her loris, Tazza, and a winged beastie, and while that will probably be cool, it probably won’t give us that much (I could be totally wrong, but, I’m making my best guesses).

    The third looks like Deryn (but it could be Alek), and the beastie looks like one of the Russian Fighting Bears. I’m about 95% sure it’s a bear, with the shape of the paws and the short tail (and the ear and muzzle beneath the mesh or whatever looks right). This means that they will pass through Russia on the way to Japan, which makes perfect sense because it is another Darwinist power. The pine trees in the background support this. Therefor the third seems revealing, but I can’t think of all that more I could glean from the rest of the picture unless the “package” is something recognizable and significant. I suppose maybe Deryn (or Alek, or whoever it is) could be missing an arm or something, which would be an interesting but unlikely spoiler. As I said, I could be completely wrong, but I’m pretty darn sure about that bear.

    But number two provides next to nothing in the part that we can see. It would seem that the shoes are Alek’s (or at least that Alek is present), because we have a loris there, and Dr. Barlow would probably not be wearing shoes like that. Of course, Bovril does spend quite a lot of time with Deryn, so it could be her too, which only makes the image more difficult to figure out. It could be that there is absolutely nothing interesting in that one, just Alek standing there thinking or something, but the label of “Secrets” is intriguing, and its the only one that has not given me any clear information to work with so far.

  91. chapter two, chapter two!!!!!!!!!! i have been wanting to see the inside of the leviathan (plx show that in a picture, reveal it if you have it) since they first mentioned it, tho. can’t wait to see all!

  93. chapter two…definitely.

    It has the least amount of space covered but it looks as if it holds the greatest secret:]

  94. chapter two…definitely.

    It has the least amount of space covered but it looks as if it holds the greatest secret

  96. oh…… too many choices. they all sound great.
    so….. reluctlantly …….I pick one of them…… chapter 3.

  102. If I *must* choose one, I go with chapter 2, because secrets + Bovril = one happy fangirl. I can’t wait to see all three, though.

  104. THREE MAN!!! Just like some earlier comments, there is a guess as to what is going on in the first two, but the third is very mysterious.

  113. OMG, I cannot decide. But I am going to go with Chapter 2 because of the word “secrets”. There aren’t many secrets left to reveal, so hopefully this image means what I think it means. Plus Bovril is in it. 😀

  114. DUDE SHOW US THE SECOND ONE!!!!!!! cuz there’s CAGES and the caption has the word SECRETS. it WORRIES ME

  124. NUMBAH TWO PLEASE!
    IT’S GOT BOVRIL IN IT!
    WHAT’S COOLER THAN BOVRIL?
    NOTHING, THAT’S WHAT!

  126. I agree completely with comment 89, or Neo. I choose number two due to the insufficient facts and clues.

  143. Chapter 1 for sure for me. The title of the picture is just intriguing and since it’s from the first chapter of the book I won’t freak out over revealing things from the book itself.

  145. Chapter Two If You Please!!!! All of Keith’s art is super-fantastically-absolutely-breathtakingly-amazing! But all of the Art looks super. I supose I don’t really care as long as I get to see some of it!

  146. Chapter 3 for sure should be the one.
    Even though it may be showing a Russian Fighting Bear down below, what catches my eye are what seems like blades above. It seems like a clash or meshing of Clanker and Darwinist with most likely Deryn in the middle of it. I for one would like to see that… plus I really do love the action drawings.

    Chapter 1 is just, from what I can figure out, just Dr. Barlow with her creatures that we have all already seen or read about. Nothing new there that will exposed to us right now, and could be easily awaited for in October.

    Chapter 2… I’m really close to choosing this because of the “secret” part of it. Instantly, I thought of Deryn’s secret but I don’t see that being exposed in the 2nd chapter of the book. The space is big enough for two people to be, but my guess is that it would be similar to picture in Behemoth with the Messenger Lizard room where it’s tempting but they’re most likely standing and looking. But if Chapter 3 isn’t exposed, I wouldn’t mind this one to be the one that’s exposed.

  149. Ooh very tough choice. I think I would say the image from Chapter 1 because I don’t want to get too many hints at what happens in further parts of the book =P But I can’t wait to see all three (plus the many others) when the book comes out!

  150. Chapter 2! Secrets in the Rookery!!
    I really want to see all of these, since I love Dr. Barlow and number three looks tres interessants…but secrets must be revealed! Can’t wait for it to come out!!

  153. Chapter Three! Chapter Three!!!!! That looks like Deryn and she be my fav-oh-right characturrrrr :33 she be uber awesomeness -thumbs up- thought it may be a dissapointment if it;s not her….BUT I DON’T CARE I wanna see her [if it’s possibly her] to be KICKIN’ SOME ASS!!! [‘scuse my french]

  155. Chapter 2!!!! cause its a secret!!!!!! and i wanna see the picture so I can try to peice together the secret!!!!!

  158. Chapter three…because it looks the most exciting….:P
    But anything is good as long as it is revealed SOOOOOONNNN!

  161. Two. I like secrets xD And waiting for Behemoth was torture… and then Deryn didn’t tell him… and then I went through a stage of NO. THERE ARE MORE PAGES TO THIS BOOK, I JUST HAVE TO FIND THEM! *turns last page frantically* NOOOOO!

  163. mmm…mmm…MMM!!! Now I might wanna go with chap. 2….why?
    1)ALMOST EVERYONE CHOSE THAT
    2)I am somehow stupidly convinced it might have to do with Deryn’s secret…which is probably not the case…cause it’s early in the book but it’s not released yet so I wouldn’t know

    just gonna stick with three….cause since I doubt it’s Deryn’s secret, I don’t wanna get “shamed” (though if it is about her secret I’d probably still be “shamed” BUT OH WELL) :S

  165. I vote for chapter 3!
    I doubt chapter 2 is referring to a secret that can be inferred by looking at the picture, but chapter 3 sounds like it’ll be the first bit of action we get in this book,

  174. Though it looks like 2 is winning. I would have to say 1 because I love Barlow AND things with two heads (:

  179. Chapter 2.
    Chapter 1 and 3’s partially shown images gives us a few ideas of who/what is in the picture, but 2 shows Bovril, a foot, part of a arm, and this place filled with what looks like cages, making our imagination go wild!! without giving any particular clues…

  180. 2 seems like it’ll give the most away, so I would want to see it least, but it look’s like I’m outnumbered…

  181. Chapter 2!!!! Just like so many others, but hey it looks like its gonna be epic. I think its going to be somewhat like the picture in the last book where Alek and Deryn are together in the lizard room place thing and i loved that picture. Heck, i loved all the pictures
    (p.s. i wouldn’t mind if all of them were revealed, just sayin)

  182. I think number three looks amazing, but it looks like most people from what I can see are really excited for 2. They’re all so great, it really doesn’t matter that much, but my vote is cast for three!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 By the way, I’m a huge uglies fan, and I think you need to make another book to that series! I’m OBSESSED! Sorry, I’m probably being a pain with that comment, but i check this site out often to look for uglies updates! Please write more! I’ve read the entire series 3 times, going on 4! I need another! But back to the subject, I vote 3. OFTO

  183. I vote for chapter two. And I’m really looking forward to this book. My dad asked me the other day when it’s coming out, so he’s sure looking forward to it as well.

  185. Ah, you’re clever! #2 “Secrets in the Rookery” please.
    You’re so kind to share!
    Does Rookery mean we’ll find out where exactly all the beasties come from?
    Because since book one I’ve been wondering whether or not tigereques and hippoesques came from eggs like Bovril did.

  186. number 2

    I was going to vote for number one, but Neo (#87) and Madi-la (#60) convinced me not to.

    By the way here are the votes so far

    ( some were not counted because they weren’t done right)

    #1- 16
    #2- 93
    #3- 35

  187. Chapter 2 please, Scott-La! It has some boots, a perspicacious loris, and a message lizard. Those creepy things are everywhere eavesdropping.

  192. Definitely Chapter 1! It looks like Dr. Barlow is part of that picture. I’m definitely intrigued!

  193. I completely vote for Chapter Two! Whose boots are those? Is someone else there? What is happening? I wonder if it has something to do with Alek and Deryn? (hopeful face)
    Plus: Bovril is in it so you know at least one of them is there.
    Also: Secrets!
    If it’s a secret you know it’s gotta be good! Hmmm…What could possibly be going on? Don’t you guys want to find out?
    Vote for Chapter Two!
    Secrets!
    Hee hee hee (creepy giggle)!

  194. It looks like it’s winning anyways, but:

    Chapter 2!

    And Scott-la!!! You totally did this on purpose to make us more anxious to see the art in the book….not fair!!!! 🙂 Do we at least get to see the other two in later blog posts?

  195. Ooooh, why you make us choose Mr Westerfeld? I’d have to say Chapter 2. Such intrigue. SUCH SUSPENCE. IT’S KILLING ME MR WESTERFELD. I DO SO LOVE A GOOD SECRET.

    Intensely excited for the next book! C:

  199. I was googling Midnighters pictures and I saw something about Uglies getting a new cover design in May. Is it getting a new look, Scott?

  208. Chapter two, without a doubt. I’ve gotten to the point of having a neigh-Pavlovian reaction to the word “secret” in conjunction with this series. xD

  212. Chapter 2 “Secrets in the Rookery”!

    There are so many logical reasons to pic this chapter over the other.

    Neo (comment #88) totally dissects it all and give you the breakdown. 🙂
    I wonder if he’s right…

    I think Scott-la knew most everyone would pic #2. Look at how he blocked off the picture more than the others. Definitely intriguing.

  221. CHAPTER TWO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  237. TWO!

    Small blanks are more enticing, and I somehow feel I can deduce the least from it. One is our favorite Doctor receiving something important we won’t recognize from a neato beastie I can wait to see. That umbrella-thing looks intriguing, but I besides the cool tech it is likely to just be a shot of one of Deryn’s many crazy action escapades (which I love, don’t get me wrong). But I can hardly tell a thing from two at all! This curiosity will be the end of me. And I always love a good shot of one of our heroes.

  239. chapter two, secrets in the rookery! because, i mean, come on, who doesn’t love a good secret?

  261. Scoottt…hurrrryyyyy…can’t…hold on…much..longerrrrr…!

    [You would be impressed if you could see how dramatically I’m wringing my hands. I begin to think you use the word ‘mere’ too lightly!]

  262. I vote for Two-headed Messenger because it looks like a bird is in the picture — and I’m really into birds.

  264. ahhh…I see I have arrived late. How unfortunate. But there are still many questions left unanswered. First one that may be on a lot of people’s minds would have to be, when will Deryn tell Alek she’s a girl, or what more secrets are there about Bovril their little loris friend? Is there something more up Dr. Barlow’s sleeves? What about Count Volger’s? Questions can so very annoying and when one thinks about them too hard they get a throbbing headache. The only cure is Scott Westerfeld’s third book, Goliath. I do hope to get it soon. OOOOOOOOOHHHH I JUST CAN’T WAIT ANY LONGER!!!!!!! ……ahem, sorry lost my compsure there. I really can’t wait till the third book. Ah, I feel like I’m gonna die. To sustain myself I’ve been reading Behemoth and Leviathan over and over. Tis the only way I can stop myself from going balistic. Well, see you people later. Bye! 🙂

    Signed,
    IM.Q. Cline

  268. This vote is a little late, but I personally would have picked Chapter 3. I believe that it would show some sort of clue to the third book. By the way, these books are a personal favourite! I am a very picky reader. There are not many books that I like, but Scott, you’ve got me hooked on these books!

  272. chapter2!!!
    ohmygod!cruelty has its limits scott!you cut off the best part of the picture!!!
    and anyway its deffa #2 because #1 is dr barlow.and #3 should be deryn doing something dangerous…again 😀

  273. Chapter threeof course!SPOILER AHEAD-TOP SECRET** you can find the one in chapter two on keith thompsons website. Plus number three looks juicey and exciting-can’t wait for the book to come out XD!!

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