these are ones that came up when I searched under "fantasy series 2015" (Google Images).
Try "fantasy series book covers" - on Google UK at least you get a far more representative list.
these are ones that came up when I searched under "fantasy series 2015" (Google Images).
Is "fantasy" (except for game-related stuff) largely aimed at girls, and "science fiction" at boys?
The trend these days seems to be towards an illustration of a single character. Maybe this is related to the move to close third-person being the favoured POV - the books promise a 'climb into the skin' experience. By contrast, fantasy books from earlier eras often presented multiple characters on the cover. Many also featured landscapes. This suggests that the books today are less about fantastic settings and realms than about close personal connection with a character.
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The trend these days seems to be towards an illustration of a single character. Maybe this is related to the move to close third-person being the favoured POV - the books promise a 'climb into the skin' experience. By contrast, fantasy books from earlier eras often presented multiple characters on the cover. Many also featured landscapes. This suggests that the books today are less about fantastic settings and realms than about close personal connection with a character.
Hi,
Personally this is the cover of Lord Foul's Bane which was the first of Donaldson's books I saw and which blew me away.
It's still damned awesome!
Cheers, Greg.
It's still damned awesome!
The earlier covers are often not all about inviting the reader to fantasize about being someone.
Personally this is the cover of Lord Foul's Bane which was the first of Donaldson's books I saw and which blew me away.
Agreed. They were about journeying to another world, not about becoming another person. And that, in my opinion, is the biggest change in fantasy over the last 20 years.
Just to show my taste in fantasy art (again), the cover for A Wizard of Earthsea appeals to me far more than the other two.
Might have something to do with exploring in general shifted from outer world to innerself, and than to your other-self? Like avatars, be it in games, novels or onlineInteresting thought, and deserving of its own thread. Is it true, and if so, what has driven that change?