Green's cover
The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 02 Mar 2000
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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.

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Jim Henley — 07 Mar 2000, 13:22
  follows, by subject match 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


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