Wolfe covers

Gerry Quinn · 01 Jan 2011, 19:24 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 19:24:17 -0000
Subject: (urth) Wolfe covers
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I quite like that cover on Fifth Head.  At least it passes the train test.  (The colours in the image you link to are horribly washed out compared to the version I have - it's as if the were photoshopped to convert night to day or something...)

- Gerry Quinn

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Matthew Keeley 
  To: The Urth Mailing List 
  Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 7:16 PM
  Subject: Re: (urth) Wolfe covers

  The UK paperback covers for TWK are indeed awful, though at least they have newly commissioned artwork, unlike Gollancz's one-volume New Sun, titled "Severian of the Guild" and bearing the exact same mediocre cover artwork as the older SF Masterworks edition of The Fifth Head of Cerberus! Not that that cover looked any better on Fifth Head, but still the laziness is appalling.
  http://forbiddenplanet.com/60435-sf-masterworks-the-fifth-head-of-cerberus/
  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Severian-Guild-Torturer-Conciliator-Gollancz/dp/0575081309

  And then there's the *other* SF masterworks Fifth Head cover:
  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fifth-Head-Cerberus-S-F-Masterworks/dp/1857988175

  Anyone know if this alternate cover of AEG ever saw release anywhere? I quite like it, even if it's not necessarily a perfect fit for the book it's supposed to represent.
  http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/gene-wolfe/evil-guest.htm 

  -Matt

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