Sci-fi buffs - Try me! Your own 'analog' cover for free! (dial-up warning)

[Call Me Wesley]

Here's how it works: The first five who reply to this, providing me with a title/author's name and any additional info will get an original and free cover of their own 'analog' novel.

Here's the 'analog' cover layout:



So, if you want to play along, provide me with a title, your author's name ('Trout Kilgore' is always a winner,) and other input if you like, given I can come up with something. Give me some time to finish it, and I'll reply with it to you in this thread. Image size will be 1024 x 768 px.

Sample here:



I won't reply tonight, but I'll get started at the requests tomorrow. Shoot me your best.

[AsahinaKimi]

1. Jurassic Park / Michael Crichton

Paleontologists Allan Grant and paleobotanist graduate student Ellie Sattler are invited to a mysterious game preserve to sign off on the park not knowing that billionaire John Hammond has had his own scientists come up
with a way to clone dinosaurs for entertainment purposes.

[Call Me Wesley]

11. And the last one:

[AsahinaKimi]

13. Nicely done!

indeed, nicely done!

[EndersDame]

2. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

[Call Me Wesley]

7. Here it is:

[arcadian]

3. I Can't Hear You With All This Tin-foil / by Laurel Rankin

[Call Me Wesley]

9. Here you go, hope you like:

[arcadian]

15. That is pretty sweet.

:D

[cowcommander]

4. Dune

[Call Me Wesley]

6. Okay, although I was expecting some made up titles/authors,

but that's fine. I went the very, very simplistic way with this one, since the novels are this rich, it's hard to choose a dominant topic.

[Frank Cannon]

5. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

A brute by the name of Gully Foyle has sworn blood revenge on the occupants of a spaceship that left him for dead on another ship in deep space. Complicating his intricate plot for vengeance is that he's been given an elaborate blood-red facial tattoo like a Maori warrior, including the word "NOMAD" (the "O" actually being the symbol for Mars) on his forehead.



See what you can do with that.

[Call Me Wesley]

10. Tough choice ...

This novel has quite some stuff to choose from, and no, no tattooed faces in this one but you'll get it what or who it's about:

[Frank Cannon]

16. Wow! Very nice! Thanks for that.

I chose that book because it's a hard one. There is, like you said, a lot of stuff going on in it!

I wouldn't even have thought to include the young Ms. Presteign in it, though she plays a pretty significant role in the story. Well done.

[Call Me Wesley]

8. Last batch tomorrow. (nt)

[Capn Sunshine]

12. dude those were ABSOLUTELY FUCKING AWESOME!!!

You are very talented. Don't just waste this on us, although I appreciate it...

[Call Me Wesley]

19. Thank you!

:hi:

[arcadian]

14. Were we supposed to make one up?

Or just pick some random already sci-fi book/movie? Because I just made up some silly sounding title. :rofl:

[Call Me Wesley]

18. You did fine, and I wasn't really clear,

but yeah, I wanted made-up stuff. :hi:

[Richardo]

17. "I, Beagle" by Isaac Richardomov

I was a big analog fan in my junior high days :thumbsup:

[Call Me Wesley]

30. How can I resist this one?

[Richardo]

33. That. is. AWESOME!!

+ :applause: + :yourock:

[Call Me Wesley]

35. Thank you!

Now you just have to write the novel ... ;)

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. "Armegeddon for Andromeda" by Rabrrrrrr

[Call Me Wesley]

31. Having a J. J. Abrams moment?

Here, create havoc and have fun!

[velvet]

21. awesome stuff! I've got one

Survival of the Hippest - by H.P. Laughcraft

I'd so love to see my favourite sigline on the cover of a book, this might be my only chance.

Great idea, good times, thank you. :thumbsup:

[Call Me Wesley]

32. Let's hope it's not your only chance, but here's my attempt:

[velvet]

37. Is beautiful! And hip!

And so very 1966. Thank you CMW, you got fine skills.

Funny little coincidence, I was sitting on a train yesterday next to a guy who'd just got back to Oz from a trip to Paris. He fell in love while he was there, pulled out his camera to show me her picture, and apart from having hair she's the spitting image of your coverwoman.

[Call Me Wesley]

22. Thanks all for playing.

I'll do the last requests, since it's fun, but no more. :hi:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

23. ok

it's not sci-fi but it is a book I'm working on. Main character is a two time loser named Dickie Pickles who has a spider monkey side-kick and they are pick pockets. Time frame, 1934.

[Call Me Wesley]

24. I said I'll do the latest requests upthread. ;)

But I'll make an exception for you, which will be the last one. Just tell me what a spider monkey is?

On edit: Now I know what a spider monkey is ...

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

25. I'm sorry...but thank you for making an exception for me :)

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2007/11/crazy_monkeys_w.html&h=324&w=470&sz=29&tbnid=b61MH5BWNmOEhM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dspider%2Bmonkey&hl=en&usg=__XEIRFIuIYlU35XFylltjLGoddWc=&ei=bwoUS5-EPJT4mgPRofjUAg&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=3&ct=image&ved=0CA8Q9QEwAg

[Call Me Wesley]

26. I think I have to leave him out,

since I have no such 3D model. But I'll come up with something. ;)

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

28. my hero!

[Call Me Wesley]

34. Look what I found!

Sorry about the blending of the main cover titles, got a bit lost with the pic. But hope you'll like it:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

36. That is wonderful!

I'm sending it to the real life Dickie Pickles right now! Thanks Call Me Wesley

[Forkboy]

27. This thread makes me weep.

You've shown more creativity in a single thread than I've had in four months. :cry:

[Call Me Wesley]

29. Perhaps you need to start taking requests?

NO. DON'T!!!111!!!! :rofl:

I haven't done anything in a long time, so I was brave. From tomorrow morning on, this stuff will be sweet memories until next year, so I thought I give it a last try so far. ;)

Do not weep!

I'm getting ready to put up the last batch in around half an hour or so.

[velvet]

38. "until next year"?

Why? Were you caught driving Photoshop drunk and had your licence suspended?

[Call Me Wesley]

39. LOL! I wish.

Nope, simple work schedule that interferes with the fun stuff.

[guitar man]

40. Analog?

Now THIS is analog :D

[Call Me Wesley]

41. Uh, really nice!

Yours I guess? Bring quality back into life! :hi:

[guitar man]

42. oh no

It's not mine, I really wish it was, I gave up the ghost and went digital back in the mid '90s. But if I ever won the lottery I'd have a couple of those in my studio in a heartbeat ;)

[Dr. Strange]

43. I'm totally ripping off your idea!

[Call Me Wesley]

44. LOL! Nice!