# Green's cover *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 02 Mar 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. --- ### Nicholas Gevers *02 Mar 2000, 14:47* The cover of Tor's IN GREEN'S JUNGLES is now viewable on amazon.com. Jim Burns has, if anything, done an even more lurid job this time; the Neighbor looks like one of Vance's Pnume, or Phung, or whatever. --- ### Jim Henley *07 Mar 2000, 13:22 · follows Nicholas Gevers* > -----Original Message----- > From: Alastair Reynolds [mailto:areynold at estsa2.estec.esa.nl] > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 10:54 AM > To: whorl at lists.best.com > Subject: Re: (whorl) Green's Cover > > > Alga: >> Mr. Gethers announced: >>> The cover of Tor's IN GREEN'S JUNGLES is now viewable >>> on amazon.com. Jim Burns has, if anything, done an >>> even more lurid job this time; the Neighbor looks like >>> one of Vance's Pnume, or Phung, or whatever. >> You would certainly remove the cover if you planned >> to read the book >> in a public place. > Perhaps there should be a law saying that all lurid covers should be > printed on the back with something sober and respectable - "10 secrets > of success in business management" or something, so they can reversed > for use in public. > > Wolfe's a difficult one though isn't he - > the writing is of such excellent literary merit that you feel he > ought to have a nice, tasteful up-market cover with no > horrible SF things > on it - on the other hand, his work is crammed full of nifty > stuff for artists to illustrate... Since one of the things literature does is help us see through false value systems, why not start with this one? A fear of being seen reading a book with "lurid covers" is prissy. And I mean that in the nicest possible way. Best, Jim *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---