Latest Cover: A Planet's Ransom

Sunday was a good day for covers. This is the third cover completed that day. It's for A Planet's Ransom, the second book in Carlie Simonsen's Space Adventures series, and it features art and photography from Forplayday (the planets); kikujungboy (girl with gun); and Syda Productions (young soldier), all of whom can be found at Dreamstime.com.

I used the neon edge distortion in GIMP to make the people shiny, and also played with opacity, darkness, contrast, colour and hue, so any weirdness is all my fault.

Made hostages for a world whose international leaders didn’t know how to behave, we ended up on a new world, one we have to make our own, where every step of civilisation has to be earned, all over again. It’s meant to be a world to hide the secret of our survival—but not all the aliens believe we have a right to survive. Torn between two rival factions of an alien race, we have to save our keepers, defeat our hunters, and get a message to the stars.

And that’s just if we want to live.

Making a place for humanity, is another task altogether.

A Planet’s Ransom is the second book in the Space Adventures series, a series of science fiction adventures set in space, or on the colonies of newly discovered worlds. Each book is a stand-alone story that can be read without needing to read other books in the series.