Client
M.W.Bodewes
Medium : Digital
image manipulation :
Original art :177.77cm by 150cm @300dpi
Prrint ready artwork: Faux paperback Cover Art as advert for scifi short story. 12.9cm by 19.8cm : dimensions for B-format paperbacks which are associated with "literary authors" and prestigious lists such as Picador and Faber, and authors who wish to be taken seriously by critics. The look of the artwork is more of a mass-market pulp 80's style paperback, inexpensively bound and printed on low quality paper, which discolors and disintegrates over a period of decades (as at least half my Stephen King collection can attest to). Created in Adobe Photoshop 2018 A.D.
Design Notes
: Genre fiction, also known as popular fiction, is plot-driven fictional work written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary catagory, in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with said genre. Genre fiction is generally distinguished from literary fiction.
Some writing may be considered both literary and genre, such as the science fiction writing of Nobel laureate Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood. Georges Simenon, the creator of the Maigret detective novels, has been described by André Gide as 'the most novelistic of novelists in French literature'. The main genres are crime, fantasy, romance, science fiction, western, inspirational and horror. More commercially oriented genre fiction has been dismissed by literary critics as poorly written or escapist..
Science fiction concerns things that could conceivably be possible, a genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas". It usually eschews the supernatural, and unlike the related genre of fantasy, historically science fiction stories were intended to have at least a faint grounding in science-based fact or theory at the time the story was created, but this connection has become tenuous or non-existent in much of science fiction.
Here are some of sci-fi's possible sub-genres….
Hard Science Fiction. Novels and short stories that are characterized by a rigorous attention to scientific detail, or accurately depicting worlds and dimesions that scientific discoveries might make possible. the science is just as important, or more important, than the storytelling.
Soft Science Fiction. Not based on science so much as the social sciences, such as psychology and sociology. There is a big emphasis, therefore, on character and emotion.
Cyberpunk. These are set in the near-future and depict a high-tech, data-driven mech-future world. In movie terms, think of films like The Matrix and Blade Runner.
Alternate History. As the name suggests, these novels are based on the premise that historical events might have turned out differently. Time travel is often used to change the past.
Apocalyptic Science Fiction. Another easy one to guess from the name. These novels focus on the end of the world as we know it and/or on what the world is like after the end.
First Contact. Contact with aliens, that is. Whereas alien contact has traditionally been adversarial (as in The War Of the Worlds), today it is more likely to be anthropological or sociological in nature.
Space Opera. Yup, we’re talking Star Wars! Space operas are a kind of romantic adventure featuring good guys against bad guys in spaceships. Everything in them – the settings, the themes, the battles, the characters – tend to be on a very LARGE scale.
Soundtrack (music to draw
starfields to) : Cowboy Bebop -
all of them
