Ah, EOS, Book One of Dawn of the Atlantis Grail — or as the cover whispers in an oddly confident tone, “I am a Dan Brown novel’s secret society emblem… but in space.”
Let’s break this masterpiece down. Front and center we have a golden Eye of Horus — fine, ancient Egyptian symbols are always dramatic — except here, it appears to have been welded to a wine goblet that’s actively orbiting a black hole. Is this a prophecy? A logo for an Atlantean luxury vineyard? The official seal of an intergalactic bartender’s guild? No one knows.
The whole affair is framed in a gear-like circle, because nothing says mythic science fantasy like implying your sacred relic can be dismantled at a Jiffy Lube. Behind it, a stock NASA nebula photo smolders in deep-space reds, because of course the universe is blushing at the sheer audacity of this design.
And then the typography — oh, the typography. The author’s name is in a dainty serif font, the title in massive gold block letters that shout “movie poster from 2007,” and the subtitle in a much smaller gold serif, just in case you weren’t confused about the visual hierarchy already. The final flourish is a giant gold badge at the bottom declaring BOOK ONE, in case you thought this cover was a standalone hallucination.
Some covers intrigue you. Some covers repel you. This one… somehow manages to do both while convincing you it’s a high-end perfume ad for “Eau de Atlantis.”
Unfortunately, the author is using this type of callosal mashing on multiple publications.