Planet of the Dead

'. . . A sky like chipped ice, a wind to cut you to the body core. Too cold for snow, for most of the journey, but once for eleven days and nights it came, a blizzard over the field of ice we walked on, howling like an animal, with a bite like steel. The crystals of ice flowed like a single torrent over the hard and frozen land. You could not look into it or breath; even trying to stand was near impossible. We made a hole, shallow and cold, and lay in it until the skies cleared.'

- Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks

Back cover forConsider Phlebas, from the speculative book cover project. Again, not affiliated in any way to Banks or his publisher and purely a speculative university project.

O you who turn the wheel and look to windward...

...Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

The fleeing and unnamed Mind approaches Schar's World in hyperspace.

Mock-up for my project illustrating all 8 covers of Iain M. Banks 'Culture' novels.

All the work is purely speculative and in no way affiliated with Iain Banks or Orbit.