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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/573",
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 573,
    "subject": "Pennington covers",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-05-07T17:08:42+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-09T12:22:22+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0010-0107@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-07T17:08:42+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Pennington covers",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "                                                                      \n07/05/98\n                                                                      17:27\n RE>Pennington covers"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "alga wrote:\nWhat about -Urth-? That had a plain\nbrown cover here (Hartwell, and with him Wolfe, having changed houses), but\nI would assume they all came out from one house in the UK and would have\nmatching covers. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I wish. Sadly by the time Urth came out here it was with a non-\nPennington - and quite naff - cover. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I would love to see even a part of an artist's conception\nof that ship sailing the stars!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "You and me both. Severian looks nothing like you would imagine, and\nthe \"ship\" is a normal sailing ship hanging in mid-air behind him! It looks\nas ridiculous as it sounds.\n\nBack when TBOTNS first came out Arrow re-released a number of older\nWolfe books, such as Cerberus, The Devil in a Forest, and The Death\nof Doctor Island and Other Stories and Other Stories, and they all\nhad Pennington covers. They aren't as good as the New Sun ones, but\nthey still have that certain something. That Urth came out without a \nPennington cover is one of the crowning injustices of life."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0010-0119@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Gordon Brain",
        "address": "gobrain at netcomuk.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-09T12:22:22+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Pennington covers",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0010-0107@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "I was interested to read the recent correspondence about cover art. I too\nhave always liked the Bruce Pennington covers for TBOTNS – to my mind they\nseem to capture the atmosphere of the books.\n\nMr. Wolfe himself once told me that he considered the Pennington cover for\nShadow to be \"the finest jacket art I've ever had\".\n\nIndeed, that particular cover even inspired a passage in TUOTNS. In Chapter\nXXVI 'Gunnie And Burgundofora', Severian recalls himself as a young\njourneyman, \"striding along, his fuligin cloak billowing behind him and the\ndark cross of Terminus Est rising above his left shoulder\". Mr. Wolfe\nconfirmed that he had the image from the Pennington cover in mind when\nwriting that passage.\n\nThese illustrations and others can be found in 'Ultraterranium, the\nPaintings Of Bruce Pennington' (Paper Tiger 1991).\n\nGordon "
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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