Future Classics from Gollancz

[peteyoung]

Keen to experiment further with putting distinctly non-genre covers on science fiction novels, Gollancz are re-issuing eight modern SF classics with covers that deliberately say very little, not even the author's name or the title of the book. They are:

Richard Morgan, Altered Carbon
Greg Egan, Schild's Ladder
Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space

Comments

[abigail_n]

Most of those covers look like wallpaper. Deranged wallpaper, but still, there must be a midpoint between spaceship-and-busty-lady and a complete lack of visual focal points.

[despotliz]

I don't mind the concept, but these are very ... grey.

[buymeaclue]

I might be willing to go for "love" if not for the Altered Carbon cover, which is hideous.

Other than that one, I find 'em kind of appealing in their...basicness? Genericness? I'm not sure exactly, but I do.

Will author/title names be on the spine?

[peteyoung]

Yes. I still don't know if they're in the small pbk format or the slightly larger, like the SF Masterworks. I hope the latter.

[nmg]

I liked the others enough that I was willing to overlook the cover of Altered Carbon and go for 'love'.

[peteyoung]

I saw them today. They're in the larger format, and the authors' names and titles on the spines are in a typewriter font. Ugh!

[coffeeandink]

Can really boring covers sell books? Gollancz finds out for us! News at eleven!

[snowking]

Not as cool as the last lot with the lovely rounded corners.

[peteyoung]

Yep. Essentially these are nothing more than Clip Art.

[lil_shepherd]

I wondered how to describe them, but you have done so for me.