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  "thread": {
    "id": 3245,
    "subject": "PEACE cover art",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-05-09T18:20:54+00:00",
    "last": "2002-05-09T18:20:54+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0205-941@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Adam Stephanides",
        "address": "adamsteph at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2002-05-09T18:20:54+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) PEACE cover art",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "on 5/8/02 7:06 PM, Christopher Culver at christopher_culver at yahoo.com wrote:\nAnother question of early Wolfe: why did the cover \"art\" for the\noriginal edition of PEACE suck? In his biographical sketch of Wolfe\nbefore \"The Death of Doctor Island\" in MODERN CLASSIC SHORT NOVELS OF\nSCIENCE FICTION, the editor (whose name I forget, I'm across the\nAtlantic from my library at the moment) blames the plain cover art for\nthe poor sales of PEACE. I could see how that could happen, the cover\nart looks like a generic bookcover a grade-school kid would put over a\ntextbook. Why would a publisher design a book so it wouldn't sell?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I don't think the jacket design sucks; I much prefer it to Gahan Wilson's\ncover art for the tpb, which is completely out of keeping with the book's\nspirit and is a big fat spoiler, too.  The book was originally published as\na literary novel, and the jacket design reflects this.\n\n--Adam"
        }
      ]
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