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seawasp ([personal profile] seawasp) wrote2011-03-29 03:47 pm

Hayakawa's neat...





I haven't yet seen or heard anything on GCA yet (why should I, it's only been a month or two since the deal was done, and I'd figure the translation alone will take several months), but while trying to figure my way around a site in a language I can't read, I DID come across Sarah Hoyt's Darkship Thieves/Dark Ship entry, and the cover certainly looks kickass.

ETA: The link I used got changed, so I found a hard-link to the actual cover JPG.

So I'm keeping my fingers crossed for both an excellent translation and a buttkicking cover. I love the original cover for GCA, make no mistake, but I look forward to seeing what the Japanese decide to do for it; I'm hoping for an anime-manga style translation of the imagery, sort of the way Weber's Honor Harrington novels ended up (here's the one for Honor Among Enemies).
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Re: Why do *none* of these artists read the description of treecats?

[identity profile] leecetheartist.livejournal.com 2011-03-30 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, my brain's just wired that way, I pay close attention to descriptions of creatures, because that's what I draw, and I just hate it when it seems like the cover artist hasn't read the guidelines. Even if I don't intend drawing the creature.

Calling something a treecat will naturally predispose people to think cat shaped, but that's how we tend to name stuff, to try and make it familiar and understandable. I think mini-bintarong or treefisher or arboreal weaselbadger just doesn't have the same ring somehow. :-)

First paragraph...http://honorverse.wikia.com/wiki/Treecat

I will have to re-read the series (oh what a hardship) but I seem to recall that the ears are rounded.

This head bearing a striking resemblance to a Terran cat doesn't really wash with me, though. Sea Lions' head bear striking resemblance to labrador dogs, and lamas, of all things, are remarkably similar head wise to kangaroos!