A Dance with Dragons Cover Art Released

[Werthead]

Only the American one so far. Expect the British one to follow soon-ish.



Still, a great sign that Bantam hope to have the book out ASAP.

[Culhwch]

How... underwhelming.

[KiwiBird]

Not really, it looks very much the same as A Feast for Crows cover for america (same style), i always liked the british one better.

The dragon is totally not like i envision them though. I think the more lizard like, longer neck, less strong feet, more impressing wings, ...

[MrWright]

I'm rather disappointed...

I first picked up AGOT blindly because I recognized the author and the cover art (with a Black Brother, I'm assuming its Waymar Royce) looked awesome.

[Werthead]

The dragon is also wrong. As GRRM has pointed out, six-limbed creatures are pretty rare in nature. It's either four or eight. Four-limbed creatures usually have legs and wings, but no forearms/forelegs (think of birds or bats).

OTOH, he's also pointed out that six-limbed dragons are a very popular misrepresentation of the creatures in Westeros (even moreso given that it's 150-odd years since anyone's seen one) as well as in real life. The Targaryen flag shows the correct four limbs but a lot of other pictures have them with six.

[devilsgrin]

the american cover art is so... meh!... So little to grap attention. Simplicity is all well and good, but this is a fantasy novel... its got to be not-quite-but-nearly OTT.

[KiwiBird]

On the flag they have six limbs, only the front paws are tiny

[TK-421]

Ho-hum. My first 3 books have a different cover than AFFC, which is the newer and simpler cover.

AGOT has the Black Brother and Winterfell (Jon? Benjen? Royce?)
ACOK has Davos kneeling before Stannis and Mel
ASOS has the death of Hoster Tully with Cat and Edmure.

[the smiling weirwood]

Same here, Tk.

I rather liked the illustrated covers, I wish they would do one for AFFC so all of mine would match...

[Evey]

There is hope anyway...

[Lady of Winterfell]

Well, I have started the series somewhat recently so all of mine will match. But I will have to look for the older covers, to see what they look like.

[Overread]

I get the feeling that the inspiration for this cover was not ASOIAF but Wales!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...flag_large.png

[Lady of Winterfell]

Wow, they really are quite similar.

[The Curious Orange]

I'm as excited about this as I was about the Jim Burns/Titan of Braavos cover art for AFFC...

Seriously though, I hate having a fantasy series change cover style half way through. I understand the publishing "need" to do it, but they should print a small limited run with "old style" covers too.

Still, on the bright side, it's green. Which is better than black. (The current UK paperback of the first half of ASOS is green, so the UK paperback may well change colour - we haven't had blue yet...)

[Adasunshine]

Originally Posted by Overread

I get the feeling that the inspiration for this cover was not ASOIAF but Wales!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...flag_large.png

I was going to say the exact same thing!!!

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