# Some Gene Wolfe Covers *The Urth list — 8 messages, 6 voices, 05 Mar 2012* > 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. --- ### Fred Kiesche *05 Mar 2012, 16:34* A couple of beautiful covers for Gene Wolfe's original "Sun" quartet at this site, starting with this page: http://www.brucepennington.co.uk/cover30.htm ``` F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children ( http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/). ``` --- ### Gerry Quinn *05 Mar 2012, 16:58 · in reply to Fred Kiesche* From: Fred Kiesche A couple of beautiful covers for Gene Wolfe's original "Sun" quartet at this site, starting with this page: http://www.brucepennington.co.uk/cover30.htm I used to have the set with those covers. Wolfe’s cover artists rarely serve him so well. - Gerry Quinn --- ### Marc Aramini *05 Mar 2012, 19:30 · in reply to Gerry Quinn* I never dug those too much - maybe it's the emphasis on landscape instead of people and action, I don't know. Something about the colors, too. I actually like the Maitz ones better, especially for volume 1 and 4, if Severian had a bit less gyno. One of my favorite covers for a pretty mediocre fantasy was the cover of Constantine's Wraiths of Will and Pleasure; I wish some of Wolfe's stuff had that kind of artistic treatment. Not that it's related to?Wolfe, but it's Tor SF: ? http://openlibrary.org/books/OL3682165M/The_wraiths_of_will_and_pleasure His worst cover is no doubt the limited edition Free Live Free one. UGH. Hopefully hoof and hide won't mind a link :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/hoofandhide/4144009502/ --- On Mon, 3/5/12, Gerry Quinn wrote: From: Gerry Quinn Subject: Re: (urth) Some Gene Wolfe Covers To: "The Urth Mailing List" Date: Monday, March 5, 2012, 8:58 AM From: Fred Kiesche A couple of beautiful covers for Gene Wolfe's original "Sun" quartet at this site, starting with this page: http://www.brucepennington.co.uk/cover30.htm I used to have the set with those covers. Wolfe’s cover artists rarely serve him so well. - Gerry Quinn -----Inline Attachment Follows----- --- ### Gerry Quinn *05 Mar 2012, 19:39 · in reply to Marc Aramini* From: Marc Aramini His worst cover is no doubt the limited edition Free Live Free one. UGH. Hopefully hoof and hide won't mind a link :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/hoofandhide/4144009502/ Yikes! Were they trying to tap the feminist market? - Gerry Quinn --- ### António Pedro Marques *05 Mar 2012, 20:01 · in reply to Gerry Quinn* Gerry Quinn wrote (05-03-2012 19:39): > *From:* Marc Aramini > His worst cover is no doubt the limited edition Free Live Free one. UGH. > Hopefully hoof and hide won't mind a link :) > http://www.flickr.com/photos/hoofandhide/4144009502/ > Yikes! Were they trying to tap the feminist market? Gad, this is is uberawsum! --- ### Greg Bates *06 Mar 2012, 03:51 · in reply to Marc Aramini* I really didn't like Free Live Free, but now I want to track down a copy of that for my bookshelf, because DAMN. That is awesome. > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Marc Aramini wrote: > > I never dug those too much - maybe it's the emphasis on landscape instead > of people and action, I don't know. Something about the colors, too. I > actually like the Maitz ones better, especially for volume 1 and 4, if > Severian had a bit less gyno. > > One of my favorite covers for a pretty mediocre fantasy was the cover of > Constantine's Wraiths of Will and Pleasure; I wish some of Wolfe's stuff > had that kind of artistic treatment. Not that it's related to Wolfe, but > it's Tor SF: > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL3682165M/The_wraiths_of_will_and_pleasure > > > > His worst cover is no doubt the limited edition Free Live Free one. UGH. > Hopefully hoof and hide won't mind a link :) > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/hoofandhide/4144009502/ > > > --- On *Mon, 3/5/12, Gerry Quinn * wrote: > > > From: Gerry Quinn > Subject: Re: (urth) Some Gene Wolfe Covers > To: "The Urth Mailing List" > Date: Monday, March 5, 2012, 8:58 AM > > > > *From:* Fred Kiesche > > A couple of beautiful covers for Gene Wolfe's original "Sun" quartet at > this site, starting with this page: > > http://www.brucepennington.co.uk/cover30.htm > > I used to have the set with those covers. Wolfe’s cover artists rarely > serve him so well. > > - Gerry Quinn > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ --- ### Fred Kiesche *06 Mar 2012, 13:46 · in reply to Greg Bates* I thought that I had a copy of Free Live Free (not that edition), but it looks like not. Then I thought it had been put into one of the releases that contained 2 titles...and again, it looks like I'm wrong. Anybody know if there is a release in the works? > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Greg Bates wrote: > I really didn't like Free Live Free, but now I want to track down a copy > of that for my bookshelf, because DAMN. That is awesome. > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Marc Aramini wrote: >> I never dug those too much - maybe it's the emphasis on landscape instead >> of people and action, I don't know. Something about the colors, too. I >> actually like the Maitz ones better, especially for volume 1 and 4, if >> Severian had a bit less gyno. >> >> One of my favorite covers for a pretty mediocre fantasy was the cover of >> Constantine's Wraiths of Will and Pleasure; I wish some of Wolfe's stuff >> had that kind of artistic treatment. Not that it's related to Wolfe, but >> it's Tor SF: >> >> http://openlibrary.org/books/OL3682165M/The_wraiths_of_will_and_pleasure >> >> >> >> His worst cover is no doubt the limited edition Free Live Free one. UGH. >> Hopefully hoof and hide won't mind a link :) >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/hoofandhide/4144009502/ >> >> >> --- On *Mon, 3/5/12, Gerry Quinn * wrote: >> >> >> From: Gerry Quinn >> Subject: Re: (urth) Some Gene Wolfe Covers >> To: "The Urth Mailing List" >> Date: Monday, March 5, 2012, 8:58 AM >> >> >> >> *From:* Fred Kiesche >> >> A couple of beautiful covers for Gene Wolfe's original "Sun" quartet at >> this site, starting with this page: >> >> http://www.brucepennington.co.uk/cover30.htm >> >> I used to have the set with those covers. Wolfe’s cover artists rarely >> serve him so well. >> >> - Gerry Quinn >> >> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- >> >> _______________________________________________ --- ### Jeff Wilson *06 Mar 2012, 16:42 · in reply to Gerry Quinn* > On 3/5/2012 1:39 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote: > *From:* Marc Aramini > His worst cover is no doubt the limited edition Free Live Free one. UGH. > Hopefully hoof and hide won't mind a link :) > http://www.flickr.com/photos/hoofandhide/4144009502/ > Yikes! Were they trying to tap the feminist market? > - Gerry Quinn Fat-bottomed girls make the rockin' world go 'round, laddie! ``` Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana < http://www.tamut.edu/CIL > ``` ---