Burns redeems himself

Nicholas Gevers · 25 Mar 2000, 23:27 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Nicholas=20Gevers?= <vermoulian at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Re: Burns redeems himself
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 23:27:10
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--- Jesper Svedberg
<jesper.svedberg at mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote:
>=20
> Redeems himself? That cover easily plants itelf on
> my "worst cover
> ever" list, it's amazingly ugly, his _OB'sW_ cover
> is much nicer.
> I think they should use Pennington's old Shadow of
> the Torturer
> cover, it pictures almost the same scene, but is
> infinetly more
> atmospherical and beautiful.
> What's the difference between the UK hardcover text
> and the test in
> the Orb edition?
> Are all the titles in Millennium's Fantasy and SF
> Masterwork series
> trade paperbacks? (There are generally three
> different sizes of
> paperback's in the UK it seems, one is the size of a
> normal massmarket
> paperback, one is the size of a normal hardcover and
> the last one is
> somewhere in between. Are we talking about the
> hardcover sized type
> here?)

Tastes differ; and compare the Millennium cover art to
the Sword & Sorcery bilge on the Orb cover!

As for the Millennium text and format: the hardcover
text they've reprinted is of a much more readable size
than that of the Orb edition, which was reduced to a
painfully small dimension to minimise the number of
pages, I suppose; and the format is B, the one between
mass market paperback and hardcover. And all the
Fantasy Masterworks will be in B format: already out
is TIME AND THE GODS by Lord Dunsany, an omnibus of
six early collections; and in April there's Eddison's
THE WORM OUROBOROS and TALES OF THE DYING EARTH by
Jack Vance, an omnibus of all four Dying Earth volumes.

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