Official Cover Art (most of it, anyway...)

The Centipede Editions.

Centipede is a boutique press out of Colorado which specializes in collectors' editions of genre titles (hey, if they're good enough for King and Gaiman, they're good enough for me). They are outstanding. When they rebooted Blindsight and Echopraxia they didn't just slap on a new coat of paint and recycle some essay that came out ten years before. They built actual frontispieces. They got Thomas Walker to do a series of interior illustrations. They produced a thing— two things, actually— of beauty.

Don't take my word for it. See for yourself.

Fan Art

Not so long ago that simple heading would have sufficed— back when those few people noodling around with my words in their heads were content to express themselves with conventional renderings in 2D. Back before they started building models out of metal or in AR. Before they started making trailers and plushies and tattoos and musical compositions, for chrissake. Before even the conventional 2D stuff started falling into reasonably hefty, standalone categories of their own.

So what we've got now is a series of small subheadings under the big one, for ease of navigation. Now, if vampires aren't your thing, you can just skip over 'em.

Conventional   (99% Vampire-Free)

Conventional   (100% Vampiric)

Turns out there's a disproportionate number of vampiphiles in the local fan art community— so many that I finally decided to break the vampire art out under its own subheading. And if this doesn't scratch your itch, keep scrolling: there are yet more vampire renderings in Rachell_redacted's and Dmitry SkoLzki's portfolios, just a little further down.

Still waiting for someone to 'ship Jukka and Valerie, though.

Dmitry SkoLzki

When a single artist's work fills up a whole row in the gallery, it's time to give them their own subsection.

This SkoLzki guy brings a unique perspective to the Blindopraxia universe. His art has an almost grunge/woodcut feel, and yet it captures some essence of character that no one else has quite managed. (His other stuff is outstanding too.)

I really hope he's okay with me posting these. I've reached out for permission, but haven't yet heard back. (Update: Now I have. He's cool with it.)

Rachell, Redacted

Алекс Трейс apparently translates as "Alex Trace". But she goes by "Rachell Redacted" on Tumblr and "QuantumField" over at Deviant Art. That latter handle may be a holdover from her daysnstudying nuclear physics at the National Research Nuclear University in Moscow. Her style's somewhat more whimsical than I expected from a nuclear physicist, but it's also pretty much unique in the the world of Wattsian fan art; saturated, impressionistic, almost mangaoid.

On the evil and pernicious Facebook, she describes herself as an artist "who has no idea what she's doing", but she clearly does.

Merch, Metal, and Miscellany.

Some stuff doesn't really fit in with the Deviant Art crowd. Some of it turns out to be wearable. Some of it can be listened to. Some of it literally gets under your skin. Maybe this new diversity of media means that I've "arrived".

If so, it took long enough.

Blindsight.space

A ragged, far-flung group of expat Russian VFX artists— spread out now, across the northern hemisphere— have lovingly crafted a Blindsight tribute over at blindsight.space. They have built concept art and wallpapers. They have built tactical animations. The 30-second cinematic teaser posted as of this writing, beautiful as it is, pales into insignificance next to the four-and-a-half minute trailer currently in the works. It's pretty much done except for the soundtrack. (Oh, how I wish I were allowed to share it with you— but I promise, it will be worth the wait.)

Here are a few of the treasures they've built. Really, though, you should check out the site.

This tactical animation of spaceship trajectories in the wake of Firefall is astronomically accurate:

The team accessed the IAU database for the positions and trajectories of hundreds of real solar-system objects, and cycled them ahead to 2082.

I'm not worthy.

As if that wasn't enough, they also built a virtual Theseus model for use in (iPhone/iPad) augmented-reality environments. You can download the file here.

I am even less worthy than I was before.

Blindsight— The Lost Covers.

Artist Thomas Pringle did some really nice cover art for the US release of Blindsight. Chances are, you never saw it.

I've taken the liberty of turning Pringle's original works into a collection of "Alternate Covers", for true connoisseurs to download. You can find them here.