Hey, gang. We promised you some more cover goodness imminently, and cover goodness is what you shall have! Click each thumbnail to see heartstopping levels of detail.

The cover to vN by Madeline Ashby is by the remarkable Martin Bland, aka Spyroteknik. You really should click to get a better look at this, because the poor fellow almost sent himself blind working all of the detail in those robotic components that are surrounding poor Amy.

Night’s Engines is the second of Trent Jamieson‘s explorations into the apocalyptically storm-damaged Nightbound Land, and as with Roil the cover is by Angelo Rinaldi. Less in your face than Margaret, the first book’s kick-ass heroine, David as seen here is a feckless wastrel forced into action by destiny. I know, happens to us all. He’s scrubbed up rather well for the climax to this two-volume adventure.

Jo Anderton‘s disgraced pion-controller Tanyana is fully Suited on the cover of Debris‘ sequel. The first book in the defiantly science fantasy Veiled Worlds series has been getting rave reviews everywhere, along with plenty of “Is it SF, is it fantasy?” deliberation from the worthies of the SF/F blogosphere. All we know is that she looks damn mean in that suit. You’ll have someone’s eye out with that!

And ultimately, Steve Stone‘s none-more-noir cover to the collected Matt Richter tales by the redoubtable Tim Waggoner. The Nekropolis Archives has all three wonderfully entertaining novels featuring the undead detective and his half-vampire sweetheart Devona, along with a swathe of short stories. All in a paperback so chunky it really should come with health & safety warnings.

In July we’re publishing the first in Paul S Kemp’s exciting new fantasy series, The Hammer & the Blade. It tells of renowned treasure hunters and adventurers Egil (he’s the burly bastard priest with an uncanny way of getting believers to fall in line) and Nix (no lock unpicked, no treasure unsnaffled, no serving wench unfondled) and lo, here they are.

This stunning art is by the ever-lovely Richard Jones of Artist Partners. We were going to wait until it had some lettering on but frankly, we couldn’t contain ourselves.

You can read a great interview/live chat with Paul about the novel, plus an insight into his many bestselling Star Wars novels (skweeee!) over at Reddit.com.

PS, Lots more upcoming art to wonder over shortly.

As is traditional, we’ve listed below all the works we have published that are eligible for consideration. If you have read any of them, and if you consider those that you have read to be Hugo-worthy, the instructions for nominating can be found here.

Eligible Novels:

• Zoo City by Lauren Beukes*
• Death’s Disciples by J. Robert King
• Point by Thomas Blackthorne (John Meaney)
• Amortals by Matt Forbeck*
• Vegas Knights by Matt Forbeck
• City of Hope and Despair by Ian Whates
• Embedded by Dan Abnett
• Camera Obscura by Lavie Tidhar
• The Damned Busters by Matthew Hughes
• Vampire Warlords by Andy Remic
• Dead Streets by Tim Waggoner*
• Dark War by Tim Waggoner
• Walking the Tree by Kaaron Warren*
• Mistification by Kaaron Warren
• The World House by Guy Adams*
• The World House: Restoration by Guy Adams
• Hard Spell by Justin Gustainis
• Reality 36 by Guy Haley
• The Crown of the Conqueror by Gav Thorpe*
• Pretty Little Dead Things by Gary McMahon*
• Dead Bad Things by Gary McMahon
• Roil by Trent Jamieson
• Debris by Jo Anderton
• Darkness Falling by Peter Crowther
• Harbinger of the Storm by Aliette de Bodard
• Master of the House of Darts by Aliette de Bodard
• King’s Justice by Maurice Broaddus
• King’s War by Maurice Broaddus

Here’s what the matching series will look like:

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Sixty-One Nails and The Road to Bedlam will be available in their smart, new jackets from June 2012 as well.

And that’s not all. We’ve also gone back to Lauren Beukes‘ paradigm-shattering debut novel Moxyland and given it the Zoo City-matching, kick-ass Joey Hi-Fi treatment, like this:

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The new-look Moxyland will be going in to circulation in early March.

Truly mouthwatering, no?

Well, the fine folk at Amazing 15 have put together a great blog post about their experiences when creating the awesome covers, below:

Head on over to Amazing 15 to read all about the birth and delivery of a cover.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Joey HiFi. You are amazing.

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So, how do you like these babies, Joe?

You see, the new urban fantasy series from the inimitable Chris F. Holm is a touch, shall we say, noir. OK, not so much a touch, more double-dipped, with an extra crunchy topping of NOIRRRRR. Just take a look at those titles for starters. Looks like somebody has been soaking up the Hammett and Chandler, and then twisting them for their own diabolically devious purposes.

So what’s a publisher to do? Well, what we chose to do was dive in with both feet, BLAM! You want noir, with a classic feel? Oh yeah, these new covers from Amazing15, with art direction by yours truly, reference all that’s great in mid-70s crime paperback design. Well sometimes, you know, genius just… steals. And we Robots wouldn’t have it any other way.

The first of these books featuring soul collector Sam Thornton, Dead Harvest, will be in stores in March next year, with The Wrong Goodbye following in November.

Click image to see giant version (see what we did there?)

Meet Easie Demasco. That’s him at the front. You’ll often see him running. He’s a rogue, you see – a thieving swine and a total charmer.

Behind him? Oh, we’re glad you asked – that’s Saltlick. He’s a giant. Simple, some might say, but perhaps not to his face. And why’s he with Easie? Because he’s been stolen – and he’s none too pleased about it.

You see, Easie has somehow managed to make off not only with the treasure belonging to the local warlord, but also the special stone that controls the giants. Which means he now has an entire army on his tail, intent on his capture. And probably death, if we’re being honest.

So, yeah – that’s Easie. You’ll meet him in February. Watch your purse.

That there is the US cover for Adam Christopher‘s superlative Empire State, due from us in January 2012. The novel, as you may well recall, is a mix of superheroes and gumshoe detectives, in an alternative New York – which means this totally nails it. Incidentally, you can read Adam’s own thoughts on the creation of the cover over at Floor-to-Ceiling Books blog.

I’d say “ta-daaa!” and whip back the curtain with a flourish, but at least some of you have been all over this already, as our lovely chums over at Amazon.com managed to post it before we do. Gives an exciting little glimpse behind the emerald curtain, I guess. Unseen by the world at large, the race is always on to get a cover out to our suppliers in time for certain marketing deadlines, in as finished a state as possible, while not revealing it till the design is definitively complete and we (that is, the US sales team, UK sales team, various key bookstore people, and all us editorial and marketing types… not to mention that most valued opinion of all, namely the author) are all happy with it.

In this case, we were holding back on showing it off, because… well, we have a potential alternative design for the UK too, and we are waiting on some feedback that will help us decide whether we go with this one or the (really rather different) design we have under wraps. Depending on what the word is, you may never see that variant. Wooh, the suspense, etc etc. Buuuuut anyway, since the US cover is out there and getting kudos, let us stand proud and show it to the world too.

Art and design is by the peerless Will Staehle. We love him, in a gruff manly fashion.

PS: The lovely folks over at the web’s best SF/F news blog, SF Signal, are now featuring this cover as part of a Cover Smackdown. Go vote for your favourite!