Sci-fi Cover Art

I saw something on twitter yesterday with someone suggesting that no one would read a sci-fi ebook that didn’t have a noir dude with a hat, preferably a fedora, in an urban hell-scape staring into the distance, exemplified by Dekkard in Blade Runner. While certainly the film noir genre has had a lot of influence over cyberpunk print and film, and certainly bleak cityscapes are an almost necessary backdrop, I contend that the genre does not have to be so limited. Cyberpunk in particular, amongst other things, contrasts futuristic, dystopian themes with a lost, more idyllic time, even if the latter is not formally addressed.

I also will occasionally use my own amateur nature photographs as cover art because I can.