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Spoiler on new cover?
Post by olin   » Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:57 am

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Anyone note the cover of HFQ showing on Amazon? A skimmer/assault craft firing on a sailing ship?
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Re: Spoiler on new cover?
Post by Duckk   » Tue Mar 31, 2015 12:40 pm

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Cover artists rarely get the input from the author as to what the cover should be. Granted, the last cover also blew a major plot point, but I think that's an exception.
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Re: Spoiler on new cover?
Post by DennisLee   » Tue Mar 31, 2015 2:49 pm

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This was already discussed in this topic http://forums.davidweber.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6842&hilit=hfq+cover
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Re: Spoiler on new cover?
Post by AClone   » Tue Mar 31, 2015 2:51 pm

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The covers have showed a great many things that never appear in the books. Why would anyone expect them to change now?
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Re: Spoiler on new cover?
Post by McGuiness   » Thu Apr 02, 2015 5:26 am

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We also discussed the cover of HFQ and all the covers in the series in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6749&p=182624

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Re: Spoiler on new cover?
Post by evilauthor   » Thu Apr 02, 2015 9:50 am

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Duckk wrote:Cover artists rarely get the input from the author as to what the cover should be. Granted, the last cover also blew a major plot point, but I think that's an exception.


It might have blown a plot point, but the actual scene depicted (Merlin and Nimue studying a hologram of a warship) never actually appeared in the book itself.

Likewise, odds are that a skimmer actually firing on a wooden ship (in front of witnesses no less) won't appear anywhere in HFQ at all.
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Re: Spoiler on new cover?
Post by McGuiness   » Thu Apr 02, 2015 7:16 pm

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evilauthor wrote:
Duckk wrote:Cover artists rarely get the input from the author as to what the cover should be. Granted, the last cover also blew a major plot point, but I think that's an exception.
It might have blown a plot point, but the actual scene depicted (Merlin and Nimue studying a hologram of a warship) never actually appeared in the book itself.

Likewise, odds are that a skimmer actually firing on a wooden ship (in front of witnesses no less) won't appear anywhere in HFQ at all.
The fact that a scene that violates the textev so drastically pretty much guarantees that it won't! :lol:

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