I loved Aliette de
Bodard’s “On a Red Station, Drifting”,
it is a wonderful and touching story, but I still hold a regret at the time of
my first reading of this short novel. I believed, and I still do, that the
cover artwork for the hardcover edition of “On a Red Station, Drifting” was no
match for the beauty of the novella. I felt that with more effort the cover
could have been better, as it is proved by the artwork of the ebook edition. A
far better choice and a more representative and engaging one. And since I do
like quite a bit the books in physical form, especially those volumes I loved
reading and cherish because of it, I do love them with beautiful cover
artworks. Even more so considering that the cover of an ebook is easily left
behind after opening the file, while that of a physical edition is met by the
eye each time the reader picks up the respective book. Well, it seems that Aliette
de Bodard’s “On a Red Station, Drifting” has the chance to have the beautiful
cover of the ebook edition on a printed volume as well. Aliette de Bodard is
publishing a new printed edition of “On a Red Station, Drifting” through Createspace
and this volume comes with the cover designed by Nhan Y Doanh for the ebook
edition. And since we are at this chapter, here is also the cover artwork for
the Spanish edition of “On a Red Station, Drifitng”, published by Fata Libelli
at the end of the year. The artist Omar Moreno went on a different road with
his cover, coming with a more simple approach, more suited for the publisher’s
line of book covers.
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