PEACE cover art
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 May 2002
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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

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