• US$360

• 26 designs

• 9 designers

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Book Cover Design Brief

I need a book cover design for a sci-fi novel in the vein of Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, etc. It's called "Prophet Wacko" and it's flippant sfi-fi about a race of space aliens who seek to "domesticate" humans in order to harvest their melatonin (whose molecular makeup makes it a choice hallucinatory narcotic to the aliens, as well as a source of telepathic ability in certain predisposed aliens, which is a sort of subplot). But the aliens need humans to willingly accept the harvesting from living persons, so the aliens decide to manipulate the world's religions to snooker humans into thinking god is requesting their cooperation.

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Target Market(s)

Adults with interest in speculative fiction

Industry/Entity Type

Makeup

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Look and feel

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Requirements

Must have

• The design should include a forest or mountainous background (the setting is Oregon).

Nice to have

• The design would ideally include a bigfoot and/or an owl (as each feature in the story)... Natural feel is better than hardcore graphics... A starry sky might work...
  
  If you choose to include the aliens, here is a description of them: lizard-like, purple-ish in color, eight limbs (4 fore-claws and 4 hind-claws), wings like dragon flies, reptilian tail, about the size of a chameleon, with a big cantelope-shaped head, one large dominant eye in center of face, and two smaller lateral eyes set toward the back of their heads (so they see 360 degrees), sharp teeth...
  
  

Should not have

• I don't want this to be a stereotypical sci-fi cover. No big-breasted chicks in bikinis standing next to a rocketship. It's sci-fi and flippant, but addresses questions philosophically, and would want that to show in the cover...