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From: Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>
To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: (urth) Gene Wolfe Covers
I was confused by the one with the sword-toting elf as well. It look really familiar (the artwork is very similar to that of the Mistborn? series), and after some digging I found that the cover was just taken from this book. This explains the disconnect between the cover and, well, virtually everything about The Shadow of the Torturer.
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:08 AM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:
Exquisite. A couple look like standard S&S, but I especially like the scene in the mountains before little Severian is killed. I like Severian as a monk, although it's not quite right---too brown.
The Lake of Birds is great for suggesting the opposite of S&S---it looks almost like a modern cover for a Victorian novel, and in a sense it may be the truest to Wolfe's literary side.
Who would be the woman with the sword?
On 1/30/2013 8:36 AM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:
Not sure if you guys saw this or if it has made the rounds already, but here are some great (and not so great) foreign covers for TBONS:
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