An email I sent to yhlee today...

[telophase]

[Somewhat edited, but almost verbatim. Using the Midjourney AI art generator.]

i have designed new book covers for when you re-release machineries

you have to rename some of them. sorry, i don't make the rules.

first up, ninefox gambit's four options.


i have chosen this one as being the most literally descriptive of what-all happens in the book.



next up we have raven stratagem.



i have chosen this one as being the least like a raven birding instruction manual, despite her nose starting to melt.



and next up revenant gun.



as tempting as it was to choose REVEINEANIT GUN ARTSTATN* as the new cover, i have chosen REIVENANT GUN 6UAN REVASTE7IUL because it had the best big gun, no, silhouette i meant silhouette.

*[editorial note: adding "Artstation" to the prompt tends to get you images more like concept art, but if you also ask for a book cover, Midjourney worries that "Artstation" is part of the title and sometimes helpfully adds it.]



you may be allowed to choose this one instead, REIVENANT GUN GUN by TSTATHN.



and finally the cover for the omnibus box set. i accidentally did 2 sets of the variations, because i clicked on #4 to make it bigger and hit the variations button instead.



i have chosen two covers for the omnibus. perhaps one is the book club edition.

first up we have THE MACHHINRES OF O EMPLEE, which appears to have contributing authors listed underneath the title.



and then we have MACHINIES OF EMIPICE, which i have chosen because....



...IT IS A PICTURE OF YOU IN POWER ARMOR.





Thanks to yhlee for always being such a good sport about me mangling the text or the covers of his books! :D

Comments

[trobadora]

DED! This is amazing.

[telophase]

I really love how asking it to do a book cover kind of adds that slight grungy yellowing feel from midcentury pulp paperbacks. XD

[sovay]

i have chosen this one as being the most literally descriptive of what-all happens in the book.

That's actually quite good. It almost even has enough eyes.

(This entire project is incredible. It's like watching a manuscript error teach itself to paint.)

[telophase]

I’d be tempted to take it and make it into an actual painting if I hadn’t already made 40 billion other images I really want to paint.

[helen_keeble]

A lot of these are only a logo away from being legit WH40k covers. :-D

[telophase]

REIVENANT GUN GUN is so close to some of my favorite W40K cover styles!

this icon is actually from Race for the Galaxy but hey

[yhlee]

I sometimes regret that I had to pull out of possibly writing a WH40k short story for health reasons. And these days I'm so booked up it's ridiculous.

IN THE GRIM DARK FUTURE THERE IS ONLY WAR AND DAKKA DAKKA!!!

Re: this icon is actually from Race for the Galaxy but hey

[telophase]

I dream of the glory that could have been!

[isis]

Oh, these are awesome. Thanks for sharing them all!

[telophase]

You’re welcome! I have far too much fun doing things like this.

[dcltdw]

Amazing <3

[telophase]

Haha, thanks!