the merchant and the alchemist's gate: Ted Chiang

2007

A Hugo and Nebula award-winning time travel novelette by Ted Chiang of being haunted by the past and trapped by the future.

Ted Chiang and publisher Subterranean Press commissioned Jacob McMurray to create cover and interior illustrations for The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate. Book design by John Berry. Each image is comprised of many collaged found images and textures and they symbolically illustrate the events of the story. The front cover is full color and the interior relegated to 2 colors, and tints thereof.

Winner of the 2007 Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novelette.

Scope: book illustration