Words and Such art

James Wynn · 25 Oct 2011, 17:29 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:29:53 -0500
Subject: (urth) Words and Such art
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His short story collections typically are better, but I agree that none 
are as good as this.
Probably, the collections are not as bad because Tor doesn't expect to 
make a lot of money off them and so the Art Director did not get 
involved. Wolfe claimed that expectations of increasing sales is the 
reason the covers of The Book of the New Sun volumes got worse with each 
release.

On 10/25/2011 12:25 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
> Also, why can't the quality and style of the Wolfe-inspired art at 
> this link ever be one of Wolfe's book covers instead of the (what is 
> to me) atrocious genre-inbred kitsch that usually wraps up his 
> literary art that is itself at the opposite end of the spectrum?
>
> -DOJP
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Daniel Petersen 
> <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com 
> <mailto:danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     There was what I thought was a recent one that was more or less
>     about this called 'Lief in the Wind' - collected in /Stories/,
>     edited by Neil Gaiman.  Great idea and a few finely worded
>     moments, but not one of my favourites by Wolfe.
>
>     -DOJP
>
>
>     On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:00 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com
>     <mailto:crushtv at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         http://liamkruger.tumblr.com/post/11311695396/heyoscarwilde-gene-wolfe-once-did-a-story-about
>         "Gene Wolfe once did a story about astronauts that had birds
>         inside of them. "
>
>         Which story is he talking about?
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