The Friday Face-Off – Seeds/Spores

The Friday Face-Off was created by Books by Proxy, where each week bloggers can showcase books with covers centered around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for a list of upcoming themes. Join in the fun each Friday by finding a book whose cover is based on the theme!

This week’s theme:  “A little soil to make it grow.” – A cover featuring seeds/spores.

This week was tough, but I found a great example after a lot of searching. Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation has just been made into a movie (which I have yet to see), but it all started with this book, a strange and suspenseful tale of a group of scientists who are trying to figure out why previous groups of explorers to Area X have disappeared. This was one of my favorite books of 2014, and if you haven’t read VanderMeer, I highly recommend you check out his large body of work. Take a look at the AMAZING covers (some of which actually have spores on them!):

Farrar, Straus & Giroux (US) | Varrak (Estonian)

Indonesian 2018 | Korean 2017

Fourth Estate 2015 | Fourth Estate Kindle Edition

Chinese 2015 | Chinese 2016

So many great covers, and they are all so DIFFERENT. Ultimately, the cover that keeps catching my eye is:

Which is your favorite?

Posted March 30, 2018 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 31 Comments

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31 responses to “The Friday Face-Off – Seeds/Spores

  1. Wow… wow, wow, wow. Just… wow! WHAT stupendously fabulous covers! I’ve seen the one featured by Proxy, but I had no idea that lucky old Jeff has such wonderful book covers for allll the editions. There isn’t a single dud amongst this lot! And yes – I’m with you. It makes my set of covers look REALLY tired and very average.

  2. Wow – I’ve not seen that cover before. It’s brilliant. This was the first book that sprung to mind with this week’s theme but I’ve already used this book so wanted to come up with something different. It’s a great book for this topic though and there are such a lot of covers. It was more difficult that I thought this week – I had a couple of books in mind but sometimes when you go to look there’s only one cover.
    Lynn 😀

    • Tammy

      That happened to me too, where I think of a perfect book but it’s just too new to have a lot of covers already.

    • Tammy

      Oooh Borne has some great covers as well! I’m hoping I can use it in a future Face-Off:-)

  3. Ooh so many good covers for this one! I actually like the first one (it’s grown on me as I wasn’t crazy about it at first?), but I like the Indonesian one too. I like how it looks like she’s breaking through something. I kinda like the Estonian one, I keep going back and forth on that. 🙂
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    • Tammy

      I honestly couldn’t think of anything else for this week, although other bloggers came up with some great ideas! But this book definitely has a bunch of cool covers!

    • Tammy

      I really like the Asian ones as well. I love when books get cool and different covers from all over the world!

    • Tammy

      VanderMeer definitely isn’t for everyone, he’s got that “new weird” thing going on, I just happen to love his style:-)

  4. Cam

    I don’t know ANYTHING about this book nor have I heard of it, but if I saw the US cover I would immediately have picked it up! This is gorgeous work.

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