IT HAZ SPOILERS! So I hid the image way down there below the text. One piece of advice, don’t look at Keith’s lovely illustration until you get to the end.
And yet: By my authorial authority, I DECLARE IT CANONICAL.) It’s full of fan service and cross-dressing and all sorts of shippy stuff. (Well, it’s really more fan fic than a long-lost chapter. And early next week, I’ll be posting the winners of the concluded Show Us Your Steampunk contest that’s been happening over on FaceBook.īut for now, at long last, here is the secret last chapter of Goliath. But there’s some really awesome fan art (by real fans!) coming up then. I am sorry to say, though, that this chapter and Keith’s piece are bumping Fan Art Friday till next week. This turned out to be more than 3,000 words, longer than most of the chapters in the series, because writing those characters again was a total blast. So I decided to write a piece of fan fiction to go with it.
On top of that, Keith’s new illustration was quite evocative, and made me wonder exactly what was going on. And yet this still didn’t seem like enough to repay all your enthusiasm for the series. I have read your comments and run them through a complex algorithm, and Keith came up with a wonderful piece of bonus art. A bit more than 1200 comments’ worth of enthusiasm, in fact. So I decided to hold a vote, here on this post called “One Last Piece of Art”, and there was much enthusiasm. Deryn at last wearing a dress? A close-up version of the final kiss? Bovril doing pretty much anything? Of course, what image Keith should draw was a matter of debate. But that’s not the same as the characters doing stuff. Yes, The Manual of Aeronautics comes out next year (August 21), full of deck plans, cutaways, beasties, uniforms, etc.
So I thought it would be fun to commission one last piece of art from Keith, as a sort of Hanukwanzamas present to you all. Many of you felt as though there was just one more illustration you wanted to see.Īfter all, we’ve all spent a quarter-million words and 160 illustrations with the crew of the Leviathan. While reading a multitude of fan reviews of Goliath, the last book in the Leviathan trilogy, I noted a common theme.
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