Foreign covers for western books

[Elsa Bibat]

Japanese Edition covers for the Honor Harrington series
and Tinker by Wen Spencer I just love the art. Anyone have anymore?





Edit: Finally got them to work. Rawr.

[Kokuten]

NOM NOM NOM
That EZBoard, it eats your pictures good!
email the pics to me and I can host 'em.
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[Evil Midnight Lurker]

Manga Honor = yum.
But treecats shouldn't be anywhere near that chibi...
And is it my imagination or are the Japanese titles completely different?
--Sam
"Oh, there's crime here. I can smell it."

[Valles]

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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."

[Bob Schroeck]

Is it just me, or does HH look like she's about 15 in all of those covers?

-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.

[Foxboy]

Well, allowing for the anti-agathics detailed in the stories...
But I digress. Mang-style illustration tends to simultaneously youthen older women and age young girls. {Reference the figures possessed by nominally 14-year-old Asuka Sohryu Langley and Rei Ayanami, and the surprisingly youthful 28-year-old Misato Katsuragi or 36+ Nodoka Saotome}
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[Herr Bad Moon]

Rawr!
That is all.---------------
-Jon
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
The population density of Wyoming is very low, but that doesn't mean the people there aren't also out to kill you.
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Jon
"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"

[ECSNorway]

Yeah. Honor was /supposed/ to look about 15 when the series started.
But, oh, my, great art. *saves pics*--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

[Bob Schroeck]

Ah. Never having gotten around the the HH books, I didn't know that.

-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.

[ECSNorway]

Yeah.
There's a bit in one of the later books where a new Academy graduate has issues dealing with an outside military, because they /don't/ have the anti-agathics (called "Prolong") there, and despite being 22 she looks like a ten-year-old.--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

[Kokuten]

Nimitz appears to be insufficiently badass. Anything describable as seven kilos of carnivorous buzzsaw..
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[Elsa Bibat]

Yeah, Nimitz is sort of small, but hey, Japan needs its cute animal sidekick. lol

[robkelk]

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Anyone have anymore?

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Have you tried looking on Amazon Japan? Search on "Japanese Books" for whichever author you want, and enjoy... although you might only get front covers.

-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Rod.H]

www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obi...id%20Weber
Well, you do only see front covers and the occational paper wapper thingy that shouts out loud price and "buy me please!" - obi, I think it is. Still price, translator and publisher details might be of interest to some. Running Babblefish over the reviews might be worth something of a laught.
--Rod.H

[VladimirTherin]

Is it just me or does this one have a certain robotech feeling to it? :-D

[Star Ranger4]

Its the peaked cap that creates that robotech feel. If it'd been a black beret as mentioned in the actual text it wouldnt have sparked that."I was an Otaku before those kids came along and changed the meaning of the word."
-- HM "Howling Mad" Wilson to more than one team-mate.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[katreus]

Awesome.
I don't know where the yellow on red came from but it looks very spiffy.
Makes me go want to read Honor Harrington again...--