Cover post: ECHO CITY artwork
- - January 25th, 2011
We’ve now received the shiny new cover flat for Tim Lebbon’s Echo City from our production department, so there was much excitement on the 
Orbit bench. It’s always seems so much more real and nearly-there than when you just print it on regular paper, but here’s the next best thing here on the interweb …
I think Lee Gibbon’s illustration is terrifically atmospheric and designer Peter Cotton has done a great job putting this together for us. It really portrays the desolate feel of a city stranded in a hosile desert, its dwellers believing there is no other life in their world – until a stranger arrives from across the toxic wastes …
Steven Erikson had this to say about this darkly fantastical novel — so look out for it in July if you’re after something to read on the beach. Or maybe not the beach, if you’ve a particularly vivid imagination:
Brilliantly conceived and exquisitely well written by one of the genre’s most original and inventive writers. Tim Lebbon is one of the few fantasy authors whose new works I eagerly antcipate’ Steven Erikson
Tags: Echo City, Tim Lebbon
Gareth P
January 25, 2011
at 3:19 pm
Is it a deliberate policy of Orbit not to credit cover artists and designers? Not for the first time, and I suspect not for the last, you’ve promoted a lovely piece of art… with no thanks at all to the creator(s). Shame on you.
Bella Pagan
January 26, 2011
at 5:44 am
Hi Gareth, thanks for your positive comments on the great visual for ECHO CITY. And you make a good point about crediting cover artists and designers, as this is important if this good work is to be recognised. If you look back over my previous posts, and other posts on the Orbit site, you’ll see that we do try to ensure that we credit artists and designers. But sometimes this does slip, so a reminder is always useful to make sure artist crediting remains firmly on the radar. Lee Gibbons (illustrator) and Peter Cotton (designer) have now been appropriately credited for their work.
Thanks
Bella