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Fevre Dream

Poseidon HC 1982 (US)

Gollancz HC 1983

Pocket PB 1983 (US)

Sphere PB
1984 (UK)

Gollancz PB
1989 (UK)

Vista PB
1996 (UK)

Millenium PB
2001 (UK)

Bantam PB
2004 (US)

Subterranean HC
2007 (US)

Foreign Language Editions

Chinese		Chinese (Taiwan)
Science Fiction World 2008		Gaea PB 2009

Estonian		French
Varrak HC 2009		Mnemos PB 2005

German			Israeli
Heyne PB 1991	FanPro HC 2006		Modan 2003

Italian			Japanese	Slovak
Fanucci Editore PB 1994	Gargoyle Books HC 2010		Sogensha PB 1990	Ikar Press HC 2007

Spanish				Polish		Russian
Acervo PB 1983	Acervo 2004	Gigamesh PB 2009		Zysk PB 2002		AST HC 2002

Comics

Avatar Comics
2006 (US)

Avatar Comics
2010 (US)

All the legendary steamboats of yore were sidewheelers: the Eclipse, the A.L. Shotwell, the J.M. White, the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee. So of course the Fevre Dream had to be a sidewheeler as well. Yet somehow I keep getting sternwheelers on my covers.

The Barron Storey art on the Poseidon HC is a case in point. Still, his ghostly white steamer and the half-seen face in the water evoke the novel splendidly. Storey's painting hangs on my living room wall, where it is often admired... though it's curious how many people see only the steamer, and never notice the face in the water. When the Storey art was reused for the inside cover of the original PB, the image was tinkered with to bring out the vampire more, but I prefer the subtlety of the original.

I also love the Paul Wright painting that adorns the Fantasy Masterworks trade PB from Millennium. Yes, it's another sternwheeler, damn it, but Wright's impressionistic rendering of the boat on the river is wonderfully moody, as lovely as a sunset. And the newest Fevre Dream cover, on the French edition from Mnemos, is evocative as well, and really puts you on the steamer's deck."

On the other hand, two Spanish editions of Fevre Dream have two of the ugliest covers ever stuck on one of my books (one is the original PB cover - we don't have the other up here yet, but it's coming, so be afraid, be very afraid). Hideous as they are, they do, however, correctly depict a sidewheeler... which goes to show that it's better to have a beautiful cover than an accurate one.