# Gene Wolfe Covers *The Urth list — 5 messages, 3 voices, 30 Jan 2013* > 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. --- ### Antonin Scriabin *30 Jan 2013, 13:36* Not sure if you guys saw this or if it has made the rounds already, but here are some great (and not so great) foreign covers for TBONS: http://imgur.com/a/P5tDY The Italian *The Claw of the Conciliator *is beautiful, imo. --- ### David Stockhoff *30 Jan 2013, 14:08 · in reply to Antonin Scriabin* Exquisite. A couple look like standard S&S, but I especially like the scene in the mountains before little Severian is killed. I like Severian as a monk, although it's not quite right---too brown. The Lake of Birds is great for suggesting the opposite of S&S---it looks almost like a modern cover for a Victorian novel, and in a sense it may be the truest to Wolfe's literary side. Who would be the woman with the sword? > On 1/30/2013 8:36 AM, Antonin Scriabin wrote: > Not sure if you guys saw this or if it has made the rounds already, > but here are some great (and not so great) foreign covers for TBONS: > > http://imgur.com/a/P5tDY > > The Italian /The Claw of the Conciliator /is beautiful, imo. > > > _______________________________________________ --- ### Antonin Scriabin *30 Jan 2013, 14:13 · in reply to David Stockhoff* I was confused by the one with the sword-toting elf as well. It look really familiar (the artwork is very similar to that of the *Mistborn *series), and after some digging I found that the cover was just taken from this book. This explains the disconnect between the cover and, well, virtually everything about *The Shadow of the Torturer*. > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:08 AM, David Stockhoff wrote: > Exquisite. A couple look like standard S&S, but I especially like the > scene in the mountains before little Severian is killed. I like Severian as > a monk, although it's not quite right---too brown. > > The Lake of Birds is great for suggesting the opposite of S&S---it looks > almost like a modern cover for a Victorian novel, and in a sense it may be > the truest to Wolfe's literary side. > > Who would be the woman with the sword? > > > On 1/30/2013 8:36 AM, Antonin Scriabin wrote: >> Not sure if you guys saw this or if it has made the rounds already, but >> here are some great (and not so great) foreign covers for TBONS: >> >> http://imgur.com/a/P5tDY >> >> The Italian /The Claw of the Conciliator /is beautiful, imo. >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ --- ### DAVID STOCKHOFF *30 Jan 2013, 14:56 · in reply to Antonin Scriabin* Crimes upon crimes! I thought she looked a little elvish. > ________________________________ > From: Antonin Scriabin > To: The Urth Mailing List > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 9:13 AM > Subject: Re: (urth) Gene Wolfe Covers > > > I was confused by the one with the sword-toting elf as well. It look really familiar (the artwork is very similar to that of the Mistborn? series), and after some digging I found that the cover was just taken from this book. This explains the disconnect between the cover and, well, virtually everything about The Shadow of the Torturer. > > > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:08 AM, David Stockhoff wrote: > > Exquisite. A couple look like standard S&S, but I especially like the scene in the mountains before little Severian is killed. I like Severian as a monk, although it's not quite right---too brown. >> The Lake of Birds is great for suggesting the opposite of S&S---it looks almost like a modern cover for a Victorian novel, and in a sense it may be the truest to Wolfe's literary side. >> >> Who would be the woman with the sword? >> >> >> On 1/30/2013 8:36 AM, Antonin Scriabin wrote: >> >> Not sure if you guys saw this or if it has made the rounds already, but here are some great (and not so great) foreign covers for TBONS: >>> http://imgur.com/a/P5tDY The Italian /The Claw of the Conciliator /is beautiful, imo. >>> _______________________________________________ --- ### Stephen Hoy *30 Jan 2013, 16:13 · in reply to Antonin Scriabin* just noticed Claw of the Conciliator translated into French as "La Griffe du demi-dieu"...at first glance, seems an intrusive choice by the translator. Why 'demi-dieu' over 'conciliateur'? ?I suppose the former may have the merit of invoking demi-gods like Hercules, but I think it skirts the idea of a redemptive intermediary that conciliator bears with it. Not sure if you guys saw this or if it has made the rounds already, but here are some great (and not so great) foreign covers for TBONS: http://imgur.com/a/P5tDY The Italian The Claw of the Conciliator is beautiful, imo. ---