Del Rey / Ballantine covers from 1983 by Michael Whelan | |||
Del Rey / Ballantine covers from 1994 by Michael Whelan | |||
PAN 0330 303090 from 1988 Cover Artist Stephen Bradbury |
PAN 0330 327720 from 1993 Cover Artist Stephen Bradbury |
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PAN 0330 322990 from 1995 Cover Artist Stephen Bradbury |
PAN 0330 323059 from 1997 Cover Artist Stephen Bradbury |
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PAN 0330 269194 from
1983 Cover Artist Stephen Bradbury |
0330 282085 from 1984 Cover Artist Stephen Bradbury |
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PAN 0330 28052X from 1983 Cover Artist Stephen Bradbury |
PAN 0330 283707 from 1984 Cover Artist Stephen Bradbury |
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TOR Editions (PAN's SF/Fantasy
imprint) from 2013 In our initial discussions about the books we decided we wanted to create something bold and exciting, with a more fantasy-based background, and a single icon on each cover. Once we had confirmed our ideas with our in-house designer Neil Lang, Neil set about sourcing backgrounds and commissioning icons from illustrator Rob Hunter. We decided that a fiery author-name branding would perfectly capture the adventurous story, and Neil created the backgrounds from a selection of images, before colour-matching each one to fit the overall colour scheme of each cover. Neil Lang had this to say about designing the covers: ‘Back in the day I was a massive fan of Julian May’s Saga of the Exiles series and so I relished the task of creating covers that captured these amazing stories. I’m hoping these will attract a whole new generation of readers. My challenge was to capture the energy and excitement of the novels, so I chose a branding that I felt really captured this vibrancy and spirit of adventure. The trick was also to capture that balance between something that had a science fiction backstory, but felt like fantasy down to the new world the characters travelled to here. The books should also really stand out on the shelf (or internet!) and give the books a unique identity that is instantly recognisable.’ |