The cover art for Servant of the Underworld:

Isn’t it full of awesome? (some stuff might shift around a bit, but overall it’s meant to be pretty much final)

For the curious, the central design is lifted from the Calendar Stone. It represents the Sun God along with the Four Ages of the World, which makes it pretty appropriate for the book (I won’t say why because of spoilers). You can find explanations on the symbols here (scroll down a bit for the first ring).

Now I’ll go and have that much delayed dinner…

-“After the Fire” is now available as a podcast on StarShip Sofa, thanks to the concerted efforts of Tony C. Smith and Kate Baker. It sounds awesome, so I urge you to pop over and give it a quick listen. Also, check out the Wild Wild West retrospective, and the science news.

-Via Mark Pexton, the artist who did the awesomely creepy art for “Ys” in Interzone, another version of his illustration:

Dark Goddess by ~Superego-Necropolis on deviantART
I think this one is even creepier than the first.