Friday Face-Off: Steampunk
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:
“Gadgets and airships”
~ a cover that is STEAMPUNK
Be My Enemy by Ian McDonald
Iverness was my first introduction to Ian McDonald’s work and it’s still one of my favorite YA series; I just wish he’d continued it! I think I’ve already featured the first book for a past Friday Face-Off so today I’m going to use the second.
Let’s take a look at the covers:
From left to right:
Pyr (2012) – Jo Fletcher Books (2013) – JABberwocky Literary Agency (2018)
Bulgarian Edition (2016) – Italian Edition (2018) – Russian Edition (2013)
Winner:
Tough one this week, because I really like several of these. While the Jo Fletcher UK covers for this series are all very lovely, I think I’m going to have to go with the Pyr edition for this one, because that art is just too damn cool.
What do you think? Which one is your favorite?
The BiblioSanctum 
Oh many very different covers
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The cover you chose, man, that is weird looking 😀
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I think that’s why I like it so much! It’s like, can’t look away…
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I love both the Pyr and the Jo Fletcher. I’m not familiar with this series at all!
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It’s one of my favorites from Pyr! It’s just too bad it didn’t continue.
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Hmmm… if the Italian edition were designed more like the Jo Fletcher Books one with a full cover painting I’d probably choose that one.
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I agree, I love that image, it’s a shame we only get to see so little of it.
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I need more steampunk. I like the Bulgarian edition a lot.
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I think the Jo Fletcher on is by far the most polished, though the art of the Bulgarian edition evokes a vibe I’d love to read.
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I really like the Bulgarian and Italian covers.
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I think i need to go with Jo Fletcher books
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I like the Jo Fletcher cover and also the Bulgarian – which is just crazy.
Lynn 😀
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