# Covers *The Whorl list — 4 messages, 3 voices, 09 Dec 2000* > 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. --- ### Dave Lebling *09 Dec 2000, 11:54* > The Short Sun books are apparently being treated as planetary > adventure; which is about the right subgenre, when you come right down > to it. We can just bloody well like it or lump it. Dan'l wrote great wisdom on covers, but... I just recently bought the omnibus Jack Vance _Dying Earth_ trade pb (my Lancer _Dying Earth_ is falling apart, etc.). The cover depicts a genre spaceship hovering over a genre future-abstract planet's surface. This book is published by Orb, which, as I recall, is Tor (Wolfe's publisher) under an assumed name. _Dying Earth_ is, as I hope we all know, magic&fantasy&manners set in the far, far future. Certainly a Unique, but the people looking for spaceships are going to be very confused. Explain that one, please, Dan'l. -- Vizcacha aka Dave Lebling *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *11 Dec 2000, 08:39 · follows Dave Lebling* > Vizcacha wrote: > I just recently bought the omnibus Jack Vance _Dying Earth_ trade pb (my > Lancer _Dying Earth_ is falling apart, etc.). The cover depicts a genre > spaceship hovering over a genre future-abstract planet's surface. This > book > is published by Orb, which, as I recall, is Tor (Wolfe's publisher) under > an > assumed name. _Dying Earth_ is, as I hope we all know, > magic&fantasy&manners set in the far, far future. Certainly a Unique, but > the people looking for spaceships are going to be very confused. > > Explain that one, please, Dan'l. Easy. Incompetence. *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### Paul C Duggan *12 Dec 2000, 12:40 · follows Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* >> I just recently bought the omnibus Jack Vance _Dying Earth_ trade pb (my >> Lancer _Dying Earth_ is falling apart, etc.). The cover depicts a genre >> spaceship hovering over a genre future-abstract planet's surface. This >> book >> is published by Orb, which, as I recall, is Tor (Wolfe's publisher) under >> an >> assumed name. _Dying Earth_ is, as I hope we all know, >> magic&fantasy&manners set in the far, far future. Certainly a Unique, but >> the people looking for spaceships are going to be very confused. >> >> Explain that one, please, Dan'l. > Easy. Incompetence. I dunno. It kinda reminded me of the scene where Rhialto and co go off for the source of IOUN stones. Don't they have some kind of flying platform? Paul *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *12 Dec 2000, 09:50 · follows Paul C Duggan* The quoted message chain ends with Paul: >>> Explain that one, please, Dan'l. >> Easy. Incompetence. > I dunno. It kinda reminded me of the scene where Rhialto and co go off for > the source of IOUN stones. Don't they have some kind of flying platform? This is what I get for attempting irony on an email list. Damn it, do we have to put little emoticons after ***everything*** ... *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---