The font screams “fantasy”- as in Harry Potter- while the artwork yells “science fiction”. Competing like that, I think it fails to sell to either genre.
Choose a different font, get rid of the “blah meets blah” junk, learn to center your text, and you will have a much better cover. Don’t work about covering that galaxy in the top right- it ain’t that special. Right now it looks like it has cooties as the text flees from it.
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Gotta wonder what kind of rights he’s acquired for using Neil Gaiman’s and Mr. Wizard’s names.
None at all, I’m betting. Registered letters from lawyers coming soon!
Are those cacti sticking out of the galaxy? Wow.
Hey, if you can ride your bike on the Milky Way then there’s no reason cacti can’t take root in the stars.
Or, it’s a kid on a bicycle sucked up with cacti by a dust devil in the desert into outer space.
Dibs on “Galactic Cactus” as the name of my next one-gig EDM group.
Any time I see a “Famous Author meets Famous Author” tagline, I immediately walk the other direction.
No freaking kidding.
The black hole at the center of that galaxy is swallowing all of the clip art in the universe. Yay!
After it chows down all the small type on this cover, it will look much better (it = the cover).
My money is on Gaiman.
The font screams “fantasy”- as in Harry Potter- while the artwork yells “science fiction”. Competing like that, I think it fails to sell to either genre.
Choose a different font, get rid of the “blah meets blah” junk, learn to center your text, and you will have a much better cover. Don’t work about covering that galaxy in the top right- it ain’t that special. Right now it looks like it has cooties as the text flees from it.
The artwork is odd, but it does catch your eye.
You know, I actually like the font on this one, but the art needs revision, and that tagline definitely has to go.
Wasn’t Mr. Wizard, Don Herbert? I’m almost certain. Frank Herbert wrote “Dune”, didn’t he?
You’re correct, but I’m not sure a few baking soda volcanoes wouldn’t have helped this out. They surely couldn’t have hurt.
Yup. You’re right. DON Herbert was Mr. Wizard. My bad…
But not as bad as this cover!
Neil Gaiman meeting Mr. Wizard sounds like it could be a pretty fun read, actually.