Words and Such art

James Wynn · 25 Oct 2011, 18:38 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:38:38 -0500
Subject: (urth) Words and Such art
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The cover on the original Operation Ares paperback pretty good. The 
cover on the original paperback for tIoDDaOSaOS was better than the one 
with the purple skull. I preferred the paperback cover of "Endangered 
Species" with the giant pollen spore to the stick wings one. Usually, 
however, the original covers to the Long Sun volumes were atrocious IMO. 
It's the original edition novels that tend to be the worst offenders.

However the original covers and illustrations for  The Wizard Knight, 
Pirate Freedom, and And Evil Guest are very good.  Usually, it seems the 
best his first editions can hope for is to be unoffensive.

J.


On 10/25/2011 1:04 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
> Hm, out of what I actually own, I guess I might go for Island of Dr 
> Death (purple skull) or Endangered Species (stick wings).  This one's 
> probably the worst I own:
>
> http://www.saltmanz.com/pictures/albums/Cover%20Scans/Book%20Covers/Storeys%20from%20the%20Old%20Hotel.jpg
>
> (The sheer hilarity value is almost worth it.)
> -DOJP
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:57 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com 
> <mailto:crushtv at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     The cover of Starwater Strains is surely my favorite.
>
>
>     On 10/25/2011 12:50 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
>>     How have I not consciously noticed that before about the short
>>     story collections?  You're absolutely right, James, and it's
>>     heartening.  I now see that I had subconsciously registered this
>>     all along, but I think my conscious disgust and ire at the series
>>     and novel covers was choking out all distinction in my mind,
>>     heh.  As weirdly plain and bright as that 'Gollancz 50' cover is
>>     for Shadow and Claw, I think it might actually be better than
>>     most of the others (/definitely/ better than the Fantasy
>>     Masterworks version [shudder].)
>>     -DOJP
>>
>>     On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:29 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:crushtv at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         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.
>>
>
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