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30.5.06 I've been meaning to post this for some time...

Here's a mostly-final cover for Book 1 of Messiah Complex, my multi-volume sci-fi epic beginning early next year from Humanoids. Still messing with the typography as there are some clarity issues, but this is the general idea:

Yes, gentle stranger. I don't just write films noir! ...I write sci-noir too.

Art by the ever-wonderful Eduardo Ocaña. Hopefully someone will pick up the US rights to the series, but until then it will only be available in French. The Banal Hollywood Pitch is "It's Leon the Professional meets I, Claudius, in space." But it's really more about the thin line between healthy idealism and dangerous fanaticism, about growing up with the whole universe watching you, and how far people will go just to survive. Oh yeah, and gratuitous spaceship battles. Lots of those.

The girl on the cover is Miranda, who in the first book accidentally becomes part of a huge political power struggle... when all she really wanted to do was stay out past curfew and get in trouble with boys.

( 6:31 PM )

3 Comments:

Seems nice! I hope some books reach the french bookstores here in Portugal.

By the way, Ms. de Campi would you recommend the french edition of Smoke? It is WAY cheaper (and, of course, has much higher production values) than the american one, so I'm inclined to buy it. Is the french translation faithful?

Thanks!
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

By Anonymous, at 9:58 PM

Hi Pedro - Yes, I would recommend the Delcourt version. We were able to correct a couple mistakes in the American version, and also I oversaw the translation myself. My French is not perfect, but it's good enough...

By Alex de Campi, at 10:50 AM

Thanks, Ms. de Campi. I bought the book today. Quite a nice edition, by the way!
Now I just have to read it...

I'm a bit busy (besides my day job, I'm also the translator of the brazilian
edition of Blueberry), but I intend to
get to it as soon as possible!

Thanks!
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

By Anonymous, at 10:45 PM