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: “Big badda boom.” – A cover that features an explosion
This week was tougher than I thought it would be, but I did find a couple of “explosion” covers for Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, an oldy but goody. Take a look:
Century (U.S.) edition 1985 | Polish edition 2001 | French edition 2001
U.S. edition 1985 | Spanish edition 2013 | Vietnamese edition 2014
Portuguese edition 2006 | Georgian edition 2014 | Latvian edition 2012
Japanese edition 2013 | Greek edition 1996 | Lithuanian edition 2007
Polish edition 2012 | Centipede Press edition 2014 | Hungarian edition 1991
As you can imagine, there are hundreds of editions of this book. I tried to pick ones that really caught my eye, and I do love several of these! But my very favorite is the Vietnamese cover:
I agree 100%. The second I seen that one it was over.
I think the US edition may be the one I read, or close to it. But I completely agree with you, that Vietnamese cover is fantastic. I do wish, though, the text didn’t completely cover the artwork.
So I’m not fulfilling my role as a Portuguese librarian today because like you, I like the Vietnamese cover the best. Some of them are just too busy for me though.
As a side note, today’s topic made me miss The Big Bang Theory!
I’m torn between the Spanish and the Centipede covers!
Good choice! That and the Polish edition are my favorites.
And this is one of those rare instances when I can say that the movie was better than the book… đŸ™‚
Tough one to choose my favorite actually.I think my preference goes to your choice and the Spanish edition 2013.
I almost picked Ender’s game this week! I’ve already done it, but there are so many covers I could have done it again with minimal overlap haha. I think I like the Lithuanian edition 2007 best, but there are a lot of good covers here!
Great choice and I do like your favourite. Especially because you can zoom in and look at the astronauts expression.
Lynn
I think I like the Polish edition actually, for some reason. and I kinda gravitate towards the US edition as well, but probably just because I’ve seen that one so much.
This is a great choice for this week’s theme, Tammy – I am enjoying the fact that everyone seems to have chosen very different books this week… My favourite is the first cover – a spacescape featuring an explosion takes a lot of beating. While I love the figure in the Vietnamese cover, I don’t like the way the title just merges into it – it took me a while to even register that was the name of the book.
Your winner was the preview image that showed up on my feed, and I knew as soon as I saw it that it would be my favorite too!
The Vietnamese edition is my favorite too!
Ooh, I had never seen some of these covers. I really like the one you picked!