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Top 10 Book Covers Featuring Futuristic Cities

Hey bookworm friends, get excited because it’s #scifimonth2024! This is the first year I’m participating in this blogging event, and I’m hoping to soak up some scintillating sci-fi stories. Today’s TTTopic is Books with *Insert Item* on the Cover. Luckily (or cleverly), it lends itself perfectly to sci-fi month’s prompt of “Future Cities” so I’ll be sharing book covers featuring futuristic cities or buildings. I’ll divide them into two categories: those I’ve read and those on my TBR.

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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Don’t forget to check out her post and link up!

Book Covers Featuring Futuristic Cities

Moon Soul – Nathaniel Luscombe │Cover Artist: Effie Joe Stock
Giant towers on a purple desert planet.
My Review

Predator’s Gold (Mortal Engines Quartet #2) – Philip Reeve │Cover Artist: Ian McQue
Moving cities compete with each other for resources in a steampunk dystopian world.

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport – Samit Basu│Cover Artist: Sparth
Shantiport is an Indian-inspired sinking city. This cover is focused on the details of a street but I still think it counts.

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy – Becky Chambers│Cover Artist: Feifei Ruan
A solar punk city & A robot & monk journey together through rural areas.
My Series Review

Lost Ark Dreaming – Suyi Davies Okungbowa │ Cover Artist: Raphael Lacoste
A few sinking towers are left in this post-climate disaster novella.
My Review

Book Covers Featuring Futuristic Cities

Service Model – Adrian Tchaikovsky│Cover Artist: Could not find.
Humanity is a dying breed reliant on artificial labour and service.

Mushroom Blues – Adrian M. Gibson │ Cover Artist: Felix Ortiz
Cyberpunk mystery of the Fungal variety.

Gogmagog – Jeff Noon & Steve Beard│ Cover Artist: Ian McQue & Alice Claire Coleman
A Sci-Fi Fantasy where an old woman, a young girl, and a mechanical man journey through a vast estuary toward the city of Ludwich.

The Way Up Is Death – Dan Hanks │ Cover Artist: Sarah O’Flaherty
A giant tower suddenly appears in the skies over England. Above the doorway is one word: Ascend.

The Great When – Alan Moore │ Cover Artist: Nico Delort
Imagine a world where ‘The Great When’, another London which is beyond time, exists. Sci-fi Fantasy.

43 Comments on “Top 10 Book Covers Featuring Futuristic Cities

    1. Thanks for visiting my blog, Lindsey! And I agree they’re all so pretty and Moon Soul was such a cozy sci-fi that I loved too!

  1. Ooh enjoy Sci fi month. It’s a genre I really want to try and get into so hopefully I’ll try it out one year. Either next year or the one after depending on how my readings going. I hope you have a lovely time and maybe your posts will help me discover more sci fi to add to my list.

    I do want to try the Mortal Engines one day having enjoyed the movie. The cover of Moonsoul has caught my eye so ill have to check the blurb out later (and your review too) what did you think of Jinn Bot I remember seeing it around?

    Gogmagog is another I’m definitely going to have to look into. I’ve got the last two on my list as well although I think the tower one intrigues me most out of those two. It sounds so unusual. That and Service Model are also my favourite covers so apparently the colour scheme works for me 😂

    1. Thank you! I can certainly recommend some that you might like if you ever wantto try any. I just finished a 5 star middle-grade sci-fi called The Last Cuentista and my heart is so full! I certainly hope you experiment with the genre if you see anything that sparks your interest.

      Yes Moon Soul is such a cozy sci-fi and I loved it too, it really spoke to me. It’s not hard sci-fi at all if that helps. Jinn-Bot was one that I didn’t love sadly because I felt it tried to do too much.
      Yeah to be fair that colour scheme is really pretty!! ♥

      1. Ooh thank you. I definitely want to try sometime. I wouldn’t have thought of trying a MG but your review for that one really convinced me to check it out. Plus dystopian novels are one of the sci fi sub genres that I adore. I always tend to forget that they count 😂

        It does sound like a really nice, comfy book to kind of ease yourself into the genre with. And I can kind of see that from the blurb. It is one that you kind of go back and reread to wrap your head around everything.

    1. Thank you 😁 Oh yes, Lost Ark Dreaming was a great read. It was heavily compared to The Deep which I adored so it’s a bit tough to compete with that for me but still a great book in its own right!

    1. Well if you ever feel like testing out the sci-fi waters I’d recommend most of the books in my ‘read’ section 🙂 Sci-fi really gets my imagination going too! Thanks for visiting my blog, Susan. ☺

    1. I love these covers too and I am in such a sci-fi mood right now! I hope if you do, you’ll find some that you like 😀

  2. Science Fiction books always seem to have beautiful and intriguing covers. I’ve just got the audiobook of Service Model and am really looking forward to delving into it.

    1. Yes so many sci-fi covers are so eye-catching! Oh nice, that sounds like a fun one to listen on audiobook, I hope you love it!

    1. The level of detail on the cover is so much fun I could stare at the cityscape for a long time! & Oh cool I hope you love it!

  3. OOh fun topic choice! These are all new to me picks! This would be an interesting one for me to do and challenging as there usually aren’t any defining things to mark a location on my covers. Usually it’s people or things! Lol.

    Thanks for visiting my TTT!

    1. Thank you and I’m glad to be able to pick books that might be new to someone! 🙂 oh that would be fun to try to see what kind of locations you can find among your covers! My pleasure thanks for visiting my blog 🙂

  4. Love this take! And those are some gorgeous covers. I completely forgot about the Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, but I remember being intrigued by that one when it was announced. There are a few others on here that sound intriguing and I’ll definitely be checking them out 🙂

    1. Thanks, Becky! 😊 Some of these covers are truly so stunning! Jinn-Bot was fun but ultimately didn’t work for me but it’s certainly unique and memorable! Cool, well I hope you like any if you try them out! 🙂

    1. Thanks so much, Jane! I’m glad you liked it and oh that’s exciting you’re welcome and I’m sorry about growing your tbr 😜 hahaa

    1. I don’t read a lot of sci-fi either but I want to read a lot more! & I agree those covers are particularly striking! Thanks for visiting my blog, I’ll pop over to yours ♥

    1. Thanks, Jaime! ☺ I tend to try to include the cover artist especially on posts where the purpose is to discuss the cover but I wish the info was easier to find in some cases! lol

  5. I love this theme! (And I’m annoyed now that I didn’t think to link my TTTs this month up with SciFiMonth at all.) I’ve only read one book from your list so far (the Monk & Robot book) but several of the others are on my TBR. Also, thank you for including the cover artist’s name!

    1. Thank you ♥!! Well there will be other weeks to combine TTT with Sci-Fi week so start thinking of ideas? 😉 heheh. Oh yes nice! I hope you like any others that you try. My pleasure. I really like knowing who does the art for covers.

    1. Thank you 🙂 Yes I think the Becky Chambers one is the one most of the commenters have read too ♥ Oh good idea, I hope you find something you might like! 🙂

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