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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Book cover for 2034: A Cautionary Tale'

Book cover for 2034: A Cautionary Tale

a modern take on the themes of 1984

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Book Cover Design'

Book Cover Design

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'The Last Dawn - Apocalypse'

The Last Dawn - Apocalypse

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'The Last Dawn - After Midnight'

The Last Dawn - After Midnight

Book 2 of the Last Dawn series by author Richard C Hale.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Book Cover Design'

Book Cover Design

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Redesign of "Crown of Crowns" Book Cover'

Redesign of "Crown of Crowns" Book Cover

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Silent Destruction'

Silent Destruction

This a dystopian fiction novel by author Angela Silas.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Science fiction book cover - dystopian prison theme'

Science fiction book cover - dystopian prison theme

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Book Cover for Resilience -Book 1'

Book Cover for Resilience -Book 1

It is a post-apocalyptic/dystopian novel set in the year 2132 about the protagonist's and his family's survival in one of the last habitable plains of the world. Suffering heat, sandstorms, famine: the earth only houses vestiges of disappeared civilizations.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'ReINCEPTION'

ReINCEPTION

An adult science fiction novel by author Sarena Straus.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Chasing Time'

Chasing Time

A techno-thriller by USA Today Bestselling author Brandt Legg.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Oath - The Starlore Legacy, episode 4'

Oath - The Starlore Legacy, episode 4

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'The Last Dawn - Chaos'

The Last Dawn - Chaos

This is the prequel of the brand new post apocalyptic series The Last Dawn, by author Richard C Hale. Always a pleasure working with him :)

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'The Crossed by T.J. Rao'

The Crossed by T.J. Rao

In 2084, a teenage girl of mixed race, Violetta Akan, is destined to live out her days in a town behind one of fifteen circular walls that separates her and others like her from civilization. Hart Kang is the widely adored son of a Governor who finds himself curious to know what actually goes on inside the walls. The last thing he expects to find when he sneaks into the Teorrain is a Crossed girl who challenges his way of life.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'The Ring of Fire'

The Ring of Fire

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'The Rebels'

The Rebels

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'the Seed Vault '

the Seed Vault

Set in a near future when New Food is our only chance of survival, in a group of Nordic islands ruled by an advanced algorithm, this is the story of a girl who disappears from the nation’s digital records and of the cynical private detective tasked with finding her. All clues lead to a secret research project in the Svalbard seed vault. An immersive Scandi-noir, sci-fi mystery novel about the end of farming."

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Late Winter'

Late Winter

Late Winter is a new style of fiction which I call Dystopian-Magic-Dirty Realism which is aimed at anybody who enjoys these sort of themes. The settings are primarily dystopian, Orwellian, futuristic. There are some fantasy elements, other worldly characters that you would see in works such as Kafka. All seen through the eyes of gritty, degenerate, tough, dirty realist, underclass characters. Quite a bit of drugs, sex, crime, homelessness etc. You could say a dystopian, fantastical Bukowski from a UK perspective.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Archangel'

Archangel

Archangel is a YA dystopian novel set in Chicago and Detroit about 200 years in the future. It is a world of enormous technical and material inequality. The ruling are well educated and have electric-powered vehicles, the ruled have horses and carts and cannot read. The great human cities, like Chicago and Detroit, are largely ruins. Many of the tower blocks have no external walls or electricity but people live in them anyway. CH wanted the cover to be designed around a symbol, as in The Hunger Games, or Divergent, or Legend. The symbol should be Triskele.

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Dystopian book cover with the title '1-1 project book cover'

1-1 project book cover

Book cover I recently did for a client via 1-1 project

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Du Bois'

Du Bois

Cover design for book 1 in Frozen Apocalypse series. The book is set in the future. An apocalyptic event plunged the world into a new ice age. Seas have retreated and the polar caps cover more land then ever. Du Bois is town surrounded by barren, flat tundra. Around the town the people erected a four story high steel wall. There are guard towers at intervals and between them multiple automated guns on top of the wall. Outside the wall is a train station. I mixed important things from design brief and made design that convey frozen wasteland and emptiness in apocalyptic world.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'The Devil's Dictum'

The Devil's Dictum

Winning design for dystopian novel. This design is not by design brief, I decided to risk and follow my own instict. As opposed to design brief I choose simple grunge design with big typography And it was worth it.

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Dystopian book cover with the title ''Red siege' book cover'

'Red siege' book cover

Young adult SF fantasy book cover

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Lululand Ultraviolent'

Lululand Ultraviolent

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Dystopian book cover with the title ''Printed' book cover'

'Printed' book cover

The story is set in a time when "The State" created a social safety net that comprised of everything that they believed people could need. (Housing, Food, basic Amenities, Healthcare.) All were accessed by handprint. If you committed a crime, then you would be 'printed', which was a procedure of using a machine to remove your current handprint and replace it with one that didn't have access to the state-funded amenities.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Exclusion'

Exclusion

This was a design I created that mixed good, clean and sunny with decrepit and destroyed. It is a Dystopian, futuristic-style of novel for young adults.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Thriller book cover'

Thriller book cover

dark dystopian thriller

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Among the Ruins'

Among the Ruins

Dystopian police thriller

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Pyramidenspiel'

Pyramidenspiel

The book is a dystopic novel, takes place in the year 2084. It is about a society, in which every person has a chip implanted in their arm, which records all of his life for the sake of a social credit system. The Name „Pyramidenspiel“ means literally „game of pyramids“, which is the german word for ponzi scheme. This is, because in the book is said, that the whole society works like a pyramid.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Beginner's Luck - Aaron Jay'

Beginner's Luck - Aaron Jay

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Book cover design for novel "TRESPASSER"'

Book cover design for novel "TRESPASSER"

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Dystopian book cover with the title ''Wind Apocalypse' book cover'

'Wind Apocalypse' book cover

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'The Breeders'

The Breeders

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Dystopian book cover with the title '''Pendulum'' book cover'

''Pendulum'' book cover

Book description: With the ultimatum to humanity looming, Kim and her compatriots have to decide how to meet the conditions the aliens have imposed. With the UCSF and other agencies still looking for them, a political solution seems out of reach. Will humanity descend into a civil war over AI rights, or can further bloodshed be avoided? Target audience: Adult and YA readers that love character-driven hard-ish SF

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Sci-fi fantasy book cover'

Sci-fi fantasy book cover

Time travel fantasy illustration

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Pistolero'

Pistolero

A dystopic history about a little girl and her nightmares.

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Dystopian book cover with the title ''Lululand Infrarouge' book cover'

'Lululand Infrarouge' book cover

The Black Land, 2184. Mankind has been forced to hide an overly aggressive sun behind a thick mass of artificial cloud. The Old World was consumed, and from its ashes emerged a new authoritarian society: the Federation of Lululand, in which memory is now the primary tool of control. But among the Cerberus who ensure its sustainability, there is a watchdog who has broken the chain that held him back ... and who lives only to see his destruction.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Amrican Icarus'

Amrican Icarus

The Council (a confederacy of nations united with the task of achieving world peace) struggles to determine which nation should occupy Antarctica. The nations of the United States and Germany find themselves in a territory dispute, resulting in gridlock, but The Council is well-equipped to deal with such disagreements. The two nations agree to resolve their differences and decide the fate of Antarctica with the most effective and least costly means of conflict resolution-- war, of course! Nigel Acres, a burdened 28-year-old from California, struggles to maintain his relationship with his ex-girlfriend and daughter, additionally wrestling with angst, society, and his proclivity for making bad decisions. With his life in shambles and an eviction notice imminent, just as he is convinced it couldn’t get any worse, he receives a letter addressed from the Department of Defense with the worst three words imaginable… I Want You!

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Sci-fi / Superpowers / dystopia for young adults.'

Sci-fi / Superpowers / dystopia for young adults.

Seeing the brief the best thing for this cover was to make an elegant and powerful design, showing the "gold" and "blood" throughout the composition.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Breaking Point'

Breaking Point

Third book in the series. The entire scene was imagined by the author, so I used AI tools and advanced digital manipulation techniques to achieve the goal.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Dark sci-fi book cover design'

Dark sci-fi book cover design

Post apocalypse scene

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Dystopian book cover with the title ''Alpha Terror' '

'Alpha Terror'

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Dystopian book cover with the title '''Alpha Hunger'' book cover'

''Alpha Hunger'' book cover

Digital illustration for alien romance book series. Target audience - Mf Omegaverse romance readers - Sci-fi and fantasy romance readers who like their books with dominant Alphas and unique settings -women readers

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'De Laatste Dochter - book cover'

De Laatste Dochter - book cover

YA dystopian novel about last female on earth.

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Dystopian book cover with the title ''Sidone' book cover'

'Sidone' book cover

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Dystopian Fiction Cover'

Dystopian Fiction Cover

Original Artwork - Custom made by using Photoshop & 3D software. "Andrew and his brother are separated from their family in the chaos. Now, they must fight their way through a world gone mad, where the infected are everywhere and even their own friends and family could become the enemy. 1 character will have a bow and arrows, the other will have an ax (single sided, think of what you'd pull from breaking the glass as a fire ax in a building)."

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Dystopian 1984 type book!'

Dystopian 1984 type book!

A dystopian futuristic fiction book, client wanted something simple, basic of two colors and the feeling of always being watched.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Fantasy battle scene'

Fantasy battle scene

Fantasy warrior and boy face alien invasion

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'After the Flood'

After the Flood

Dystopian police thriller

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'When There's No Tomorrow'

When There's No Tomorrow

Winner of the contest for the book cover "When there's No Tomorrow by H.J. Stephens. This design is a combination of multiple images. First is the foreground element, the girl. The next one is the battered road. Then, I combined a few images of ruined buildings and structures to fill in the background. Lastly, the dark sky. I then finalized the design by placing a few adjustment layers to make the color consistent.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Dystopian novel book cover design'

Dystopian novel book cover design

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'CYCLE 54'

CYCLE 54

Cycle 54 is my first Science Fiction series about a group of teenagers determined to escape their abusive families at the worst possible time: during a worldwide pandemic. The Elektra-virus (name may be changed by the publishing date) is a mysterious and extremely efficient virus that strikes its victims with an unbreakable fever. Many who contract the illness are put into a coma to stop the fever from rising to brain-damaging levels, but what no one knows until it's too late is that the virus isn't even local, and by that I mean it's not from Earth. It was sent to Earth from another planet, and its aim is to wipe out all human life. Our young protagonists discover this as the pandemic unfolds and they fight to survive against all odds and multiple enemies on their heels.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Post-Apocalyptic Book cover design'

Post-Apocalyptic Book cover design

Print and ebook.

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Dystopian book cover with the title '"Rubble Born" Book Cover'

"Rubble Born" Book Cover

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Dystopian book cover with the title '"Habitat" book cover'

"Habitat" book cover

"Habitat" is first book in "The End" series. Author wanted beautiful Utopian cover that masks a sinister story world.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'New Earth book cover'

New Earth book cover

Second book in Freda Lewis Lombardo's dystopian science-fiction "The End" series.

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Dystopian book cover with the title '"Tearha: The Thirteen Elements" book cover'

"Tearha: The Thirteen Elements" book cover

Part two of The Chronicles of Tearha, The Thirteen Elements culminates the sum of our all our heroes' adventures. Included in this collection are: Queens of Camelot In a country that has lost its leader, knight Artura and her squire, Morganna, finds the return of the lizardkins that sided with the dark god during the First War. The pair must stand against a hidden saboteur controlling their country, and the genocide of a people. Frozen North Nadier has made it to the frozen continent. But instead of finding remnants of his people, he encounters the last surviving bastion of dwarfs under siege by dark monsters of a distant past. Burning South Adelaide is uneasy with her life and love in Katoki. A mystery draws her attention to the burning lands of the south. Travelling with the cyborg Shou and android Galia, the trio follow the clues a diseased enemy left to answer a question. What happened to the sentinel people? Also includes these short stories: The Burning Gypsy Requiem

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'E-book cover for hard fantasy novel'

E-book cover for hard fantasy novel

The story of "Keep Walking" takes place across the continent of Katoki where two countries have used massive creatures called Titans - of mechs and golems - to wage war for centuries. Following Luce, Josh, and Jacques, the main plot sees the trio attempting to make a journey across the war torn continent, facing dangers, and try to cross a dangerous waterway to get to the neighbouring continent in order to escape the war. The characters are escaping for numerous personal reasons. Josh to return home, and Luce and Jacques are deserting the army to escape the war, as the former is a pacifist.

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Dystopian book cover with the title '"Tearha: The Three Fates" book cover'

"Tearha: The Three Fates" book cover

Consisting of 3 books set across the hard fantasy world of Tearha, The Three Fates brings the first half of the epic chronicle together. Included in this collection are: Beastmaster In the frozen tundra of Devara, Nadier the dark elf travels north on a journey to find the last of his people. After being captured by slavers, he decides to fight in an underground gladiator arena in an attempt to regain the secrets to his lost past. Titan War Adelaide Wiltkins and Lucinda Baerrinska returns to the war-torn land of Katoki in search of a neurosurgeon from the cyberpunk country of Dogon. Dragged back into the centuries long war, can they usher in a new era of life from smouldering ruin of the continent? Deck of Clover A class of misfit students from the magitech city of Aleynonlia finds themselves the centre of an ominous prophecy. Seemingly manipulated by fate itself, the students of Class C makes a final stand against an interdimensional threat to change their destinies.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Dystopian fiction book cover artwork '

Dystopian fiction book cover artwork

The cover illustration portraying the main characters on the story. I made the scene with simple choice of color with dessert tone to gave the dystopian atmosphere

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Novel cover concept about friendship.'

Novel cover concept about friendship.

This is a first draft of a novel about friendship. The main protagonist is a nurse who has an online friend that never shows herself, only using rendered cgi image as profile video avatar. In this cover I portraying the main protagonist in front of large LCD screen while her 'friend' leaning toward her as if they both sitting together side by side.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'cover book about dystopian future'

cover book about dystopian future

To portraying post-apocalyptic dystopian land I choose desert landscape with abandoned settlement on the distance. I add vehicles to empasizing the abandoned atmosphere. To avoid retro impression with the yellow-redbrick color tone I choose font with modern look, with the word 'forgotten' gradually thinner to visualizing the word.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Book Cover Illustration'

Book Cover Illustration

Dystopian Sci-Fi meets Zombie Apocalypse book cover illustration

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Dystopian Book Cover Illustration'

Dystopian Book Cover Illustration

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Sci-Fi Book Cover Design for " The 2% "'

Sci-Fi Book Cover Design for " The 2% "

A novel about a scientist that takes discarded and forgotten members from society and turns them into cybernetic sex slaves :) very interesting!

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Rise Book Cover'

Rise Book Cover

Third book in Freda Lewis Lombardo's dystopian science-fiction "The End" series.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Sci-Fi Book Cover'

Sci-Fi Book Cover

I wished to conjure up an imposing atmosphere that would evoke acid rain and rust, gloom and darkness

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Book Cover for Dystopian Fiction Book'

Book Cover for Dystopian Fiction Book

This design focused on how the environment are contained with industrial buildings and smokes in the contained city placed near in the future, and how the landscape outside the city are desolated, and the main character, the girl, standing in the wall between them, seeing the scenery from afar.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Way of the Xaltan - Cinematic Fantasy Book Cover'

Way of the Xaltan - Cinematic Fantasy Book Cover

Book cover design for Cinematic Fantasy Book featuring Fractured Energy, Glowing Symbol and Ancient Glyphs for New Adult (NA) And Adult target audiences.

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Dystopian Fiction Book Cover'

Dystopian Fiction Book Cover

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'TRUTH: Book Cover for Sci-fi Post-Apocalyptic Thriller'

TRUTH: Book Cover for Sci-fi Post-Apocalyptic Thriller

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Book Cover for Zamyatin`s World Bestseller Book'

Book Cover for Zamyatin`s World Bestseller Book

I was very passionate about developing the design for the cover of Zamyatin's book "We". I reviewed all possible versions of the edition of this book in different languages and I wanted to make the cover in a fundamentally different style. I think it turned out well. But since the contest was won by another cover (very good, look at the work of the contestants on occasion), this cover can be sold

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'The Renounced'

The Renounced

To protect my family, the price they pay is ... me

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Dystopian book cover with the title 'Cinematic Book Cover Design for Forewarned'

Cinematic Book Cover Design for Forewarned

This book cover design was created for Forewarned: A Post Apocalyptic CME Thriller by Micah Gurley. The artwork combines dramatic lighting and hyper-realistic digital painting to capture the tension of a post-apocalyptic setting. Two powerful mastiffs stand guard before a weathered barn under a stormy sky, symbolizing loyalty and survival amid chaos. The bold, distressed typography in deep red enhances the sense of urgency and danger, while the composition evokes cinematic depth and mood. The final design balances realism, atmosphere, and storytelling to engage readers instantly.

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