Yup, Todd Lockwood has been listed as a Chelsey Award Finalist, to accompany his David Gemmell – Ravenheart Award shortlisting, for the excellent cover of The Ragged Man! Naturally I’m delighted for him and wish him the best, if memory serves this isn’t the first of his Twilight Reign covers to be shortlisted for the Chelsey award. I can’t look it up on their website, but I’m pretty sure he’s been there before so hopefully he’ll go one step better this time round! Looking at the gallery of images, it’s definitely my favourite even without my name attached to it!
Doesn’t look like it’s an open vote, so if you want to join me in applauding Todd’s work, hopefully you’ve already swung by the Gemmell award page and voted for it there since the voting’s now closed…
it is such a relief to be at the end, though I was struck at dinner that I have to move on and find new imaginary friends now. This saddened me…
it is such a relief to be at the end, though I was struck at dinner that I have to move on and find new imaginary friends now. This saddened me…
I’m sure you’re at least aware of the existence of Terry Pratchett, ha ha. His books set in Ankh-Morpork eventually develop the city as a distinctive sort of character, and it might be worth reading them if you haven’t if only to be aware of what you’ll almost certainly get compared to. You almost certainly have far more assiduous Discworld fans than I reading this, who can recommend specific books to you.
I haven’t read him but Fritz Leiber’s stories are rather famous, if a bit ‘old school.’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fafhrd_and_the_Gray_Mouser
Large parts of GRRM’s mammoth opus ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ are set in cities of some size. I’m still wading through it myself, but the second book, “A Clash of Kings,” has probably the largest amount of content. However, cities are recurring locations throughout.
I’m sure you’re at least aware of the existence of Terry Pratchett, ha ha. His books set in Ankh-Morpork eventually develop the city as a distinctive sort of character, and it might be worth reading them if you haven’t if only to be aware of what you’ll almost certainly get compared to. You almost certainly have far more assiduous Discworld fans than I reading this, who can recommend specific books to you.
I haven’t read him but Fritz Leiber’s stories are rather famous, if a bit ‘old school.’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fafhrd_and_the_Gray_Mouser
Large parts of GRRM’s mammoth opus ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ are set in cities of some size. I’m still wading through it myself, but the second book, “A Clash of Kings,” has probably the largest amount of content. However, cities are recurring locations throughout.
Douglas Hulick’s Among Thieves does a spectacular job of describing a fantasy city (and teasing the whole world) without ever losing its pace. On the Weird site, Jean-Christophe Valtat’s Aurorarama is also pretty lovely – a steampunkish Victorian polar city.
Douglas Hulick’s Among Thieves does a spectacular job of describing a fantasy city (and teasing the whole world) without ever losing its pace. On the Weird site, Jean-Christophe Valtat’s Aurorarama is also pretty lovely – a steampunkish Victorian polar city.