# PEACE cover art *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 May 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Adam Stephanides *09 May 2002, 18:20* > on 5/8/02 7:06 PM, Christopher Culver at christopher_culver at yahoo.com wrote: > Another question of early Wolfe: why did the cover "art" for the > original edition of PEACE suck? In his biographical sketch of Wolfe > before "The Death of Doctor Island" in MODERN CLASSIC SHORT NOVELS OF > SCIENCE FICTION, the editor (whose name I forget, I'm across the > Atlantic from my library at the moment) blames the plain cover art for > the poor sales of PEACE. I could see how that could happen, the cover > art looks like a generic bookcover a grade-school kid would put over a > textbook. Why would a publisher design a book so it wouldn't sell? I don't think the jacket design sucks; I much prefer it to Gahan Wilson's cover art for the tpb, which is completely out of keeping with the book's spirit and is a big fat spoiler, too. The book was originally published as a literary novel, and the jacket design reflects this. --Adam ---