I had my first sneak peak at the Orbit UK covers for Milkweed #2 and #3, THE COLDEST WAR and NECESSARY EVIL, last week. And I’ve been bubbling over with excitement ever since. It feels like it was a terribly long wait until the covers were officially revealed, even though it was only a few days.
But anyway! Yes! The entire Milkweed Triptych has cover art for its Orbit editions. And it’s all incredibly awesome. As can be seen here, here, and in close-up here. Man alive, I love these covers.
I think this new art for The Coldest War and Necessary Evil do a fantastic job of representing each book while making it clear that they’re all part of the same series — a series that began with this cover. Don’t all three go perfectly swell together? I especially love the progression of uniforms across the books of the series: German, Soviet, British.
Those do all go very nicely together. Congrats on some more good covers!
Man, if Orbit was putting out hardcover editions, I would be in serious danger of picking them up so I would have a matched set.
Okay, I admit I might be a little in danger of doing that anyway.
Those UK covers are awesome. I guess you can get these framed and put them up in the living room now, hey?
Thanks very much, everybody! Yes, I think they’re really swell. They make a nice set when put together.