#SciFiMonth Friday Face-Off: Futuristic
Welcome to The Friday Face-Off, a weekly meme created by Books by Proxy! Each Friday, we will pit cover against cover while also taking the opportunity to showcase gorgeous artwork and feature some of our favorite book covers. If you want to join the fun, simply choose a book each Friday that fits that week’s predetermined theme, post and compare two or more different covers available for that book, then name your favorite. A list of future weeks’ themes are available at Lynn’s Book Blog.
This week’s theme is:
~ a cover featuring that is FUTURISTIC
Mogsy’s Pick:
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
It’s Sci-Fi November! To celebrate, I’ll be featuring science fiction titles on Friday Face-Off for the full month. Up next, we’re shining the spotlight on Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, a novel I can appreciate for its originality and imaginative ideas. The book follows Breq, a soldier who is more (and, I suppose, also less) than she seems. An “Ancillary”, Breq was formerly one of many corpse soldiers all linked up with an artificial intelligence as part of a massive starship called the Justice of Toren. So in a sense, she is the Justice of Toren. Breq as well as all the other corpse soldier “segments” who were treated as appendages connected to the Justice of Toren were collectively considered part of the ship. It’s an incredibly elaborate concept that’s a bit to hard to wrap your head around, but man, was it cool to read about.
But we’re here to talk about covers today, so let’s take a look at them now!
From left to right:
Orbit (2013) – Subterranean Press (2015) – Portuguese Edition (2018)
Russian Edition (2015) – Polish Edition (2015) – French Edition (2015)
Estonian Edition (2015) – Greek Edition (2019) – German Edition (2015)
Korean Edition (2016) – Japanese Edition (2015) – Arabic Edition (2016)
Winner:
I thought for sure I’d be picking the Orbit edition today, but as I was looking through the available covers while I was drafting this post, another one snuck in unexpectedly and stole my heart! I am of course talking about the Polish edition, which just has a je ne sais quoi quality to it that I find very appealing.
But what do you think? Which one is your favorite?
Orbit! 😉 Though it’s nice to see the Polish cover stealing your heart 😀
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I think I like that Subterranean Press edition the most, although I love the German edition too!
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I like the Japanese edition. It reminds me, a lot, of Robotech!
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Yes I definitely love the colour in this one!
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I’ve only heard good things about this series. I really like the Polish edition and the one by Subterranean Press. Great book choice this week!
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I totally agree with your choice. And my second favorite is the Arabic edition, although I have no idea what’s going on😁
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The Polish and Russian edition offer the best visual experience so… great pick! 🙂
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I totally agree with you Mogsy!
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I do lean towards the Orbit edition here, though perhaps that’s because it’s the one I read. I SO enjoyed this book. The next 2 in the series have been moving up in my TBR, I almost started the 2nd one but decided to read the 2nd in the Murderbot series first. But soon, very soon, I’ll start Ancillary Sword. Great collection of covers, thanks for bringing them together!
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There’s so many covers! Great choice this week.
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Ooh I had the same thoughts as you as I was scrolling down. I was convinced the first one was going to be my favourite then I spotted the one you picked. I think it’s the colours again!
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I like the subt one but it does not really suit
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I agree with your favorite! I really like that color scheme ❤
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I like your favourite and also the Orbit cover.
Lynn 😀
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