Today, we are thrilled to host a cover reveal for one of our very favorite people, Phoebe North – you may know her as an avid reviewer and blogger (in addition to running her own blog, she’s one of the intrepid duo behind The Intergalactic Academy), but she’s also an author whose YA science fiction novel Starglass debuts next year! We are beyond honored and thrilled to host Phoebe’s cover reveal for Starglass, an epic tale of rebellion set on a generation spaceship. Without further ado, BEHOLD! The Smugglerific Cover!
THE SMUGGLERIFIC COVER:
Front Cover
Full Jacket
THE SUMMARY:
Terra has never known anything but life aboard the Asherah, a city-within-a-spaceship that left Earth five hundred years ago in search of refuge. At sixteen, working a job that doesn’t interest her, and living with a grieving father who only notices her when he’s yelling at her, Terra is sure that there has to be more to life than what she’s got.
But when she inadvertently witnesses the captain’s guard murdering an innocent man, Terra is suddenly thrust into the dark world beneath the Asherah’s idyllic surface. As she’s drawn into a secret rebellion determined to restore power to the people, Terra discovers that her choices may determine life or death for the people she cares most about. With mere months to go before landing on the long-promised planet, Terra has to make the choice of a lifetime–one that will determine the fate of her people.
THOUGHTS FROM PHOEBE:
An author’s first cover is a scary thing–I was having nightmares for weeks about covers that featured whitewashed characters; my heroine, Terra, wedged into a pretty dress and dead; or cover elements that completely obscured the fact that Starglass is a steamy helping of science fiction. My hands shook as I opened the email from my editor, the inimitable Navah Wolfe. My first reaction was stunned silence. I liked it. In fact, I LOVED it. I didn’t know that was really allowed. I thought nightmare first cover experiences were required!
I love how the cover designer, Lucy Ruth Cummins, so perfectly captured many elements of the story. We have Terra, a botanist, surrounded by curling vines, staring out of one of the ship’s windows and down onto Zehava, the goldilocks planet her people have traveled five hundred years to reach. She’s dressed in the heavy winter coat and boots that she wears throughout the book (I can’t be the only one who wants her coat!), her long, unruly hair whipping about in the ship’s artificial wind. All of these cover elements are accurate and pretty striking!
But what I love most about the cover is how clearly science fictional it is. The font choices evoke classic sci-fi movie posters. The purple planet is a sure sign that this is a story that’s not set on Earth. It reminds me of the book covers I loved as a kid–illustrated covers by Michael Whelan and the Hildebrandt brothers that promised to take me to another world. I hope this cover does the same for readers–and that the story inside lives up to that promise for them!
THE GIVEAWAY:
We are giving away one ARC of Starglass to a lucky winner! The giveaway is open to ALL and to enter, use the form below. The contest will run until Sunday September 30 at 12:01AM (EST). Good luck!
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Wow, wow, wow! I love the Starglass cover! (And also that coat. I need that coat!)
Favorite YA sci-fi novel? Maybe a popular answer, but Across the Universe by Beth Revis! I don’t know if I’ve ever read another book that made me feel so panicky and claustrophobic (but in a good way!).
Another commenter mentioned the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate – and that would have to be a runner-up for me too. There was one glorious childhood summer spent reading the entire series from beginning to end. (And I loved the little flip-book animations in the bottom right corners of the pages.)
Hmmm, Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is up there, even though I’ve discovered that the author is kind of a terrible person. Oh well, I still like the book.
Oh, I also loved A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan to pieces. So GOOD.
I’m sure there are others, but I’ll roll with those.
I’m a big fan of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I absolutely adored the Animorphs series (except for, obviously, the abysmal ending). So it’s a hands down favorite for YA sci-fi.
Beautiful cover! Am looking forward to reading this one.
As to favorite YA SciFi, I was obsessed with the Tripod trilogy when I was younger.
Argh! Rafflecopter is failing me — won’t let me type anything. Sorry for the blank entry; my favorite YA SF is (and I had to think about this for awhile) Eva, by Peter Dickinson.
And I love the cover!
Thanks for the chance! Favorite YA would have to be His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pulman.
It has to be ACROSS THE UNIVERSE by Beth Revis.
I’m thinking Cinder my Marissa Meyer
If we’re talking Science Fiction per se, Dune. Also Ender’s Game and its sequels since they could be considered more YA oriented since the main characters are young. But if we’re talking about more recent YA science fiction, I just finished Beth Revis’ Across the Universe & A Million Suns and loved them!
I can’t just pick one, so I’m going to go with “Anything by Andre Norton”. She’s one of the reasons I took to reading with a passion as a young’un.
Thanks for the giveaway!
For Darkness Shows the Stars. Amanda Allen
Lots of people already mentioned “Ender’s Game”, but I really do love it, so I had to mention it again. I also just finished reading “Insignia”, which was pretty good.
Also, I LOVE Catherine Fisher’s “Incarceron”, but that might count as Fantasy, not SciFi…
Can I cheat and vote for a series? I grew up on Animorphs, and I’m pretty sure they’ll stay at the top of my list for a very long time.
I’m so excited about STARGLASS. Can’t WAIT to read it. <3
Across the Universe Series by Beth Revis
Thansk for the chance to win
-Dannielle
The Hitchhiker’s Guide, but does that count as YA? I don’t think so. I also really, really liked A Long, Long Sleep.
Phoebe North, yay, that’s awesome! The whole weather-in-space thing with her coat and the wind is kind of pleasantly double-take inducing. And the glowing purple! awesome! I sense some neat thematic things are going to happen with the whole glass/vacuum/green house/biosphere/inside/outside thing?
Anyway, it has been a while, but I thought certain aspects of M.T. Anderson’s Feed were really delightful.
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Woaaaah. What a cover. Congrats to Phoebe! Awesome to get cover-lucky
My favourite sci-fi YA novel would be Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. I loved how a seemingly ordinary astronomic phenomenon throws the entire world into chaos. Terrifying, yes.
Thanks so much for the giveaway!
I haven’t read many YA sci-fi novels but I started reading For Darkness Shows the Stars so..I’ll have to go with that for now.
And how great that on the first try, Phoebe’s cover came out so stunning! I love that coat too–it actually made me think of Amy from Dr. Who for some reason. Maybe it’s the hair? Anyway, thanks for the amazing giveaway!
My favorite YA Sci-Fi novel is LEGEND, though it can be more dystopian.
My favorite YA science fiction novel has to be Feed by M.T. Anderson. Haunting. Or–and it’s more adult than YA, but its main character is a teenager so I’ll count it–I also love Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.
I’m super excited for Starglass! I’ve followed Phoebe’s blog for a while and she seems way cool and so wise.
As for my favorite YA sf book… I’m going to cheat and narrow it down to two: The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee and Wyrms by OS Card. I think both were probably published as straight up SF originally but today they’d definitely be YA, and they’re among my all time faves.
For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund!
My favorite YA Scifi is Cinder by Marissa Meyer.
I would have to go with Beth Revis’s Across the Universe!
Across the Universe by Beth Revis !
I loved Exiled (inmmortal esscence series)is a great book.
thanks for the giveaway:)
I definitely love Unwind by Neal Shusterman.
That is one fantastic cover. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I LOVE the Leviathan books by Scott Westerfield! It’s all steampunky and fantasy-ish, hopefully that counts as Sci-fi..
eros, philia agape which is a short story and strictly speaking not ya
in its stead i have a backup: across the universe
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Probably Ender’s Game!
I’m very fond of Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies books.
That is such a cruel question! I did love, however, how Cinder was thoroughly sci fi in setup and world and yet used a common fantasy inspiration–fairy tale–to be the base of the plot. And I can’t wait for Scarlet!
Rafflecopter wouldn’t let me write an answer, but my favourite YA sci-fi is probably Animorphs. It’s the series that got me into sci-fi in the first place.
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