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It's time for #BeyondTheCover, where we show you the amazing art behind our gorgeous book covers!
Today we are showcasing the art created by @ Larry Elmore for 1632 by @EricFlint.
Larry Elmore has been creating fantasy and science fiction art for more than 40 years. After obtaining a BFA from Western Kentucky University in 1971, the draft forced Elmore into military service for two years; he then did artwork for the American government, National Lampoon, and Heavy Metal before accepting a position with TSR in 1981 to create and supervise their game-related art. During the next six years, along with many paintings for TSR books and games, Elmore produced a serialized Comic for Dragon Magazine, Snarfquest, which was later published as a graphic novel. Since 1987, while still undertaking assignments for TSR, he has painted book covers for Baen Books and others, produced artwork for comic books and toys, and co-written one fantasy novel, Runes of Autumn.
Given his background in fantasy art, it is not surprising that Elmore has focused almost exclusively on illustrating works of Heroic Fantasy, although he has done occasional covers for sf books. His style is described as decorous and dignified.
1632 by Eric Flint
The Ultimate Y2K Glitch....
1632 In the year 1632 in northern Germany a reasonable person might conclude that things couldn't get much worse. There was no food. Disease was rampant. For over a decade religious war had ravaged the land and the people. Catholic and Protestant armies marched and countermarched across the northern plains, laying waste the cities and slaughtering everywhere. In many rural areas population plummeted toward zero. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy.
2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia. The mines are working, the buck are plentiful (it's deer season) and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire membership of the local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time.
THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED....
When the dust settles, Mike leads a small group of armed miners to find out what's going on. Out past the edge of town Grantville's asphalt road is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell; a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter Iying screaming in muck at the center of a ring of attentive men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot.
At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of The Thirty Years War.
To see more of the artist’s work, go to: larryelmore.com/store
To learn more, go to: simonandschuster.com/books/1632/Eric-Flint/Ring-of-Fire/9781668073407
To get the ebook, go to: baen.com/1632.html
#BaenBooks #1632 #BeyondTheCover
It's time for #BeyondTheCover, where we show you the amazing art behind our gorgeous book covers!
Today we are showcasing the art created by @ Larry Elmore for 1632 by @EricFlint.
Larry Elmore has been creating fantasy and science fiction art for more than 40 years. After obtaining a BFA from Western Kentucky University in 1971, the draft forced Elmore into military service for two years; he then did artwork for the American government, National Lampoon, and Heavy Metal before accepting a position with TSR in 1981 to create and supervise their game-related art. During the next six years, along with many paintings for TSR books and games, Elmore produced a serialized Comic for Dragon Magazine, Snarfquest, which was later published as a graphic novel. Since 1987, while still undertaking assignments for TSR, he has painted book covers for Baen Books and others, produced artwork for comic books and toys, and co-written one fantasy novel, Runes of Autumn.
Given his background in fantasy art, it is not surprising that Elmore has focused almost exclusively on illustrating works of Heroic Fantasy, although he has done occasional covers for sf books. His style is described as decorous and dignified.
1632 by Eric Flint
The Ultimate Y2K Glitch....
1632 In the year 1632 in northern Germany a reasonable person might conclude that things couldn't get much worse. There was no food. Disease was rampant. For over a decade religious war had ravaged the land and the people. Catholic and Protestant armies marched and countermarched across the northern plains, laying waste the cities and slaughtering everywhere. In many rural areas population plummeted toward zero. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy.
2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia. The mines are working, the buck are plentiful (it's deer season) and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire membership of the local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time.
THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED....
When the dust settles, Mike leads a small group of armed miners to find out what's going on. Out past the edge of town Grantville's asphalt road is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell; a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter Iying screaming in muck at the center of a ring of attentive men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot.
At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of The Thirty Years War.
To see more of the artist’s work, go to: larryelmore.com/store
To learn more, go to: simonandschuster.com/books/1632/Eric-Flint/Ring-of-Fire/9781668073407
To get the ebook, go to: baen.com/1632.html
#BaenBooks #1632 #BeyondTheCover
