{"id":18717,"date":"2018-05-12T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18717"},"modified":"2018-05-12T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T00:01:00","slug":"daughters-of-forgotten-light-by-sean-grigsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2018\/05\/12\/daughters-of-forgotten-light-by-sean-grigsby\/","title":{"rendered":"Daughters of Forgotten Light by Sean Grigsby"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve spent most of the year so far working on more black-and-white illustrations for Editorial Alma\u201447 full-page pieces to date\u2014so this cover design made a welcome break, especially since all the black-and-white art has a late-Victorian setting. More about that later. Sean Grigsby’s second novel for Angry Robot Books<\/a> is previewed at the Barnes & Noble SF blog<\/a> as follows:<\/p>\n

A floating prison is home to Earth\u2019s unwanted people, where they are forgotten\u2026but not yet dead, in this wild science fiction adventure.<\/em><\/p>\n

Deep space penal colony Oubliette, population: scum. Lena \u201cHorror\u201d Horowitz leads the Daughters of Forgotten Light, one of three vicious gangs fighting for survival on Oubliette. Their fragile truce is shaken when a new shipment arrives from Earth carrying a fresh batch of prisoners and supplies to squabble over. But the delivery includes two new surprises: a drone, and a baby. Earth Senator Linda Dolfuse wants evidence of the bloodthirsty gangs to justify the government finally eradicating the wasters dumped on Oubliette. There\u2019s only one problem: the baby in the drone\u2019s video may be hers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The gangs are biker gangs, riding machines with wheels of light, so the brief was for a design as much reminiscent of a rock poster as a science-fiction cover. I don’t stray very often into the SF world so this again made a refreshing break from the 19th century and its heavy furnishings. There’s a touch of Syd Mead in the background, a reference suggested by the Tron<\/em>-style bikes, but he’s long been a favourite visual futurist of mine even before Blade Runner<\/em> (as I noted recently<\/a>). The side panels and parts of the halo are adapted from Art Deco designs, the panels being based on embellishments for a New York skyscraper. It doesn’t take much to push the aerodynamic qualities of Deco style into the Space Age (the Soviet Monument to the Conquerors of Space<\/a><\/em> could have been designed in 1930), a suggestion that William Gibson explored from a different angle in The Gernsback Continuum<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Barnes & Noble post linked above also has an extract from the beginning of the novel. The book itself will be out on 4th September, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent most of the year so far working on more black-and-white illustrations for Editorial Alma\u201447 full-page pieces to date\u2014so this cover design made a welcome break, especially since all the black-and-white art has a late-Victorian setting. More about that later. Sean Grigsby’s second novel for Angry Robot Books is previewed at the Barnes & … Continue reading “Daughters of Forgotten Light by Sean Grigsby”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4,20,23],"tags":[1754,277,1861,9502,1862,1757],"class_list":["post-18717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-science-fiction","category-work","tag-angry-robot","tag-art-deco","tag-blade-runner","tag-sean-grigsby","tag-syd-mead","tag-william-gibson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4RT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}