Wolfe covers

David Stockhoff · 02 Jan 2011, 19:57 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:57:18 -0500
Subject: (urth) Wolfe covers
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Those have a feel similar to that of some of the late 1960s Lord of the 
Rings covers: highly stylized, colorful, and slightly "off," but 
brilliant and reminiscent of the The Dying Earth. Seems Urth should be 
darker....

I don't know the artist but I'd know the covers when I see them. They 
appear here as edition #2:

http://mysite.verizon.net/aznirb/mtr/oop-lotr.html

I happen to like the "cheap" paperback covers of #1. Although they do 
not do justice to the contents, they have their own visual style, and as 
Gerry says, sci-fi art---oops, SF art---has a long tradition of 
awfulness. LOTR copvers have gotten better but also perhaps more pompous 
(excepting the movie version!) as their contents have become more 
profitable and more prestigious.

On 1/1/2011 1:50 PM, Tony Ellis wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> are you familiar with the bewitching covers Bruce Pennington did for
> the first British paperback edition of the New Sun tetralogy?
>
> If not, these clumsy, long-ago scans I did should give you taste:
>
> http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ajellis/WolfeArt.htm
>
> The cover for Shadow, in particular, pretty much defines what I see in
> my head when I think of Urth.
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