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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/567",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 567,
    "subject": "Book Covers",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-05-06T22:49:17+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-06T22:49:17+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0010-0101@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "J. Schultz",
        "address": "jschultz at wcnet.org"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-06T22:49:17+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Book Covers",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I'm intrigued.  I've never seen the British covers for the Urth cycle.\nTony, if you would be so kind, send those scans my way too.\n\nI will say that the greatest fault of the Maitz covers can also be seen as\none of its good points.  When I first read the Urth cycle, at the tender age\nof 19, I had nothing to tell me that this wasn't the run of the mill sword\nand socerey stories I was used to.  Besides the praise of critics covering\nits back cover, I thought I was in for a traditional, well told story set in\nyour basic pseudo-middle age fantasy backdrop.  Imagine my surprise when I\nrealized that the citadel was and ancient spaceship now in disrepair!\n\nAs to bringing Wolfe to the people..  : )\nFantasy and Science Fiction alike have taken a wrong turn somewhere.  Much\nlike Hollywood, their are cranking out books using the same formula over and\nover again.  To even get Wolfe's books I have to go to a huge Barnes and\nNoble bookstore, because in smaller stores the SF/F shelves are cramed full\nof garbage.  Case in point:  Let's see a show of hands...  How many of you\nhave been in bookstores where the STAR TREK, STAR WARS, and DUNGEONS AND\nDRAGONS novels out number all the other SF/F books?  (Don't get me wrong,\nthere's nothing wrong with a good mindless fantasy book every now and then\nbut the trend is becoming an epidemic)  Good authors are turning to these\nseries to make money, and I can't really blame them.  The rewards for\nliterary SF/F are slim.\n\nSpeaking of this, anyone have any suggestions for further reading.  I'm\nhungry for a good story and I can get lost in a bookstore for hours without\never making a decision.  Any help in the right direction would be\nappreciated."
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