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 book with a futuristic vista
I think I found the perfect book for this week’s prompt: Central Station by Lavie Tidhar, a book I read several years ago and loved. I was pleased to find eight different covers for this book, and most of them are very futuristic! Let’s take a look:
Tachyon Publications, U.S. paperback edition 2016 | Tachyon Publications, U.S. Kindle edition 2016
Romanian edition 2018 | Russian edition 2018
Polish edition 2017 | Czech edition 2018
German edition 2018 | Chinese edition 2020
I love a lot of these! But for my favorite I’m leaning toward the Russian edition:
Oh hey this is the first time I’ve noticed a Romanian edition! And it’s not half bad! (pls note my memory is actual crap so if there were ones before and I’ve made this exact comment pls excuse)
I’ve shown some other Romanian editions I think, and they are usually really good:-)
I don’t think the Chinese version gives off the futuristic vibe, but I think the others do. I like the Russian edition too. The main sky scraper is rather ominous!
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Yes! It makes you want to read the book, I think.
Great pick for this week! I think I agree, the Russian edition really stands out to me. It feels very epic!
Thanks! I agree, the Russian cover is really epic:-)
Hard to pick a favorite this week. I actually like all of these covers. My preference is between the Czech and Russian edition. I really can’t choose!
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I think it’s a great bunch of covers too, hard to pick!
Spot on pick with some really impressive covers. I love your choice and also the Polish edition. Something about the perspective.
Lynn 😀
Yes, I like that one a lot too:-)
I love the Russian edition too, and the Polish cover comes close second 🙂
The Polish cover is really good too:-)
Ordinarily I think I’d also pick the Russian edition. I love its darker more realistic feel. And yet I keep going back to the US Paperback edition. There’s just something about that simpler monochromatic layout that I really like.
I like it too, it’s almost a classic SF cover.
Lots of nice ones here! My favorite is probably the German 2018 edition!
Yes! I love that one too.
I love futuristic covers. I like the US PB and Romanian editions a lot!
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I do too, especially futuristic cities:-)
Lovely futuristic covers! I like the first one, the US paperback, the best.
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I like it as well:-)
I like the same cover that you do! 🙂
It’s such a good cover, right?