The Friday Face-Off: Abandoned Buildings

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: “Woe, destruction, ruin and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.” – A cover featuring abandoned buildings.

My first thought was to search post apocalyptic novels that I’ve read, because where are you going to find abandoned buildings, right? My searching turned up a little-known book that only has three different covers, but because I love this book so much, I decided to feature it. Emergence by David R. Palmer is available on Kindle, but it’s out of print in paperback, and so you’ll have to pay extra to get a physical copy. I found mine years ago in a used book store, but these days it’s being sold on Ebay for big bucks. In any case, I highly recommend it. With only three covers today, my favorite is pretty obvious:

U.S. paperback, Bantam Books 1984

Kindle edition 2018 from Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire Press

Serbian edition 2009

I really only like the Bantam Books cover, I think the Serbian cover is just weird and looks like some kind of animé. And the Kindle version, while I’m grateful that this book is now available to new readers, doesn’t quite capture the wonder and joy of this story.

But let me know which cover you like best! Have you read Emergence?

Posted February 22, 2019 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 15 Comments

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15 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Abandoned Buildings

  1. What an interesting choice, Tammy:). I love the look of this book! And your favourite is a no-brainer – I do like the artwork for the Serbian cover – my granddaughter is heavily into anime – but I do wonder if it’s appropriate for this particular story…

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