THE SONGS OF DISTANT EARTH (1986)
Acrylic - 20" x 31"

After running through several preliminary concepts, I arrived at an approach to this book cover that felt perfect to me.

The scene I imagined would be some time before the events described in the book; somehow the bright demise of Earth witnessed from afar by the young heirs of human civilization seemed to capture the strange, sad feeling of the whole novel to me. 1/5

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