The Cover Battle of 2012: Phase 1, Round 1

		Written by Stephan on Dec 1, 2012 \| 6 comments \| Forum Discussion
		Filed under: Adam Christopher, Anthony Huso, Brandon Sanderson, China Miéville, Cover Battle of 2012, Cover Battles, Dave Swavely, Deborah Coates, Fantasy News, Gary Gibson, Gini Koch, Jesse Bullington, John Joseph Adams, Sergey Dyachenko, W.G. Marshall

This December, The Ranting Dragon is trying something new: an epic cover battle! We will pitch sixty of the best covers of the year against each other—half of these selected by our team, the other half submitted by you—and our readers get to decide which of them wins the ultimate title of best cover of 2012. Any book released in 2012 is eligible—all it needs is a gorgeous cover!

Want to know more or look at other rounds? Check out the big introduction post here.

Here are the covers in the first group:
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Click the cover images above to zoom; click the links below to view on Amazon.

Black Bottle by Anthony Huso, Enormity by W.G. Marshall, Other Worlds Than These ed. by John Joseph Adams, Railsea by China Miéville.

Seven Wonders by Adam Christopher, Silhouette by Dave Swavely, Alexander Outland: Space Pirate by G.J. Koch, The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson.

The Folly of the World by Jesse Bullington, The Scar by Sergey and Marina Dyachenko, The Thousand Emperors by Gary Gibson, Wide Open by Deborah Coates.


		Which covers are your favorites?
You may select up to four covers.

		The Emperor’s Soul (67%, 648 Votes)
		Wide Open (34%, 331 Votes)
		The Scar (33%, 315 Votes)
		Seven Wonders (21%, 206 Votes)
		Railsea (21%, 203 Votes)
		Black Bottle (20%, 198 Votes)
		The Folly of the World (15%, 148 Votes)
		The Thousand Emperors (11%, 107 Votes)
		Enormity (7%, 71 Votes)
		Silhouette (7%, 67 Votes)
		Other Worlds Than These (7%, 64 Votes)
		Alexander Outland: Space Pirate (5%, 51 Votes)
		
Total Voters: 967


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http://www.facebook.com/matakos Antonis Matakos

That was a really difficult decision!! Most of the covers above are way too good to be left out but one can only vote four!! I’m eagerly awaiting for the next set to see if they can match the ones above!!

http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephan-van-Velzen/100000499757880 Stephan van Velzen

I know! So many good covers. We chose the first thirty covers (and thirty back up covers, in case we don’t get enough write-ins), and while all of them are amazing, I do think these first twelve are the best set. They were sorted randomly, though.

http://twitter.com/BearMntBooks Maria E. Schneider

Honestly? I don’t like any of them. They’re all edgy. I would pick silhouette if I had to pick one. I’ll go see if I can find some good covers. I have a huge list of books I loved this year so I’m sure some of them have great covers!
http://twitter.com/BearMntBooks Maria E. Schneider

Harder than I thought it would be. I’m still on the Fence on the Cold Days by Dresden. It is one of the better ones for this year. I submitted a couple of my favorites. I’ll do some more looking on my shelf. I can’t remember when the Del Marco was published. Shoot, I can’t even remember whether it was the first or second in the series that I liked for the cover!
http://twitter.com/Chi_Red_Dragon RiseoftheRedDragon

yeah kinda of a bookstore thing with only Amazon books, a little over the whole B&N – Amazon hype that all good books are only in these two bookstores, and they’re Maccas books stores at that

http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephan-van-Velzen/100000499757880 Stephan van Velzen

How do you mean? These books are obviously in all the bookstores. I simply choose to link to the Amazon page, because it’s the most popular online bookstore.