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: Time – time waits for no one.
This was an easy theme, and there were plenty of books to choose from. I decided to go way back in time (ha ha) and feature The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers, which is an Egypt-centric time travel fantasy. There are a TON of covers and a lot of them are really good! Bonus: several have clocks on the cover which fits in with the “time” theme. Here we go:
Ace Books edition 1997 | Mark V. Ziesing edition 1990 | Ace Books edition 1983
Harper Collins edition 1993 | Dutch edition 2013 | French edition 1986
Russian edition 2018 | Croatian edition 2012 | Legend edition 1997
Polish edition 1997 | Serbian edition 2011 | Czech edition 2019
For me, it’s a toss-up among the Russian, Polish and Serbian editions, and they are all so different! But ultimately, I’m drawn to the Polish edition the most:
I love the cover you chose, it looks like a movie poster – as does the Ace cover on the first row which is also really good, but my favourite is the Czech.
Lynn
Cool choice this week! I like the cover you picked, too.
I haven’t read this book, but it sounds good. I like the Dutch edition because it looks sinister.
It’s a difficult choice this week: these covers are all beautiful!
I absolutely love this book! I weirdly don’t like any of these covers. So I will go with the Ace cover since that was on the copy I read. Arrr!
What a great choice for this week! I haven’t read this one, and I need to get hold of it as I’m a sucker for time travel stories AND I like Powers’ writing. I found this a difficult decision – I’m torn between your favourite, the Polish cover which immediately caught my eye and the Harper Collins offering.
Lots of intriguing ones here but I like the 2018 Russian edition…something about it…
I like the Czech one. I think maybe because of the colors. And the balance. The Polish one is so different that it stands out. Caught my eye too
I’m leaning toward the 2013 Dutch edition.
That’s a lot of covers! Your winner is the one my attention was drawn to as well!
Great set of covers! I’ve not read this one, and I don’t think I’ve tried anything yet by Tim Powers. I think my favorite cover is the Ace 1983 edition. I like the sinister mystery of it.
Never heard of this book, but those covers are giving me some massive Stargate vibes (which makes sense if it’s Egypt-centric haha). I love how different all the covers are for this one, but I think this time I’m going to have to go with the Russian cover! I’m not even sure what it is about it, but it just grabs my attention!
What a cool selection of covers. I love the one you picked and I also really like the Russian one.
I love this book! Though my favorite cover is the very sombre one from Fantasy Masterworks