This is the French cover of the Honorverse's anthology of short stories "More Than Honor" written by David Weber and his friends David Drake & S.M. Sterling, by courtesy of L'atalante Publishing.
Release : March 2013
Official website of L'atalante publishing :
[link]See you soon for a new one
Voici la couverture du recueil de nouvelles "Autour d'Honor" écrit par David Weber et ses amis David Drake et S.M.Stirling, avec l'aimable autorisation des éditions L'atalante.
Parution : Mars 2013
Site officiel des éditions l'Atalante :
[link]A bientôt pour la prochaine
Genkis
`anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
Sta.sh
As for the "artistic license" discussion earlier in the comment section: ultimately what an artist working on a comission tries to do is find the "sweet spot" between the wishes of the customer, the color composition, and the general setup of the piece he or she is working on. For example the piece Genkkis worked on for me [link] the female character in the front actually has rather short hair (and I never mention whether she smokes or not; though she might actually start smoking after what she goes through
In the same vein, going with a gray treecat would've seriously gone against the wintery, crisp background color scheme (you wouldn't have seen the 'cat ^^ ) and taken away from the focus the "warmer" colors achieve through the contrast here. A black furred hexapuma in that composition also would have been, well, too distracting from the 'cat and the girl. Sometimes adherence to canon simply isn't the be-all and end-all of everything. Or do you think the placement of stars on this piece [link] really represents their actual, real-life location? *shrugs*