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Green's cover
The cover of Tor's IN GREEN'S JUNGLES is now viewable
on amazon.com. Jim Burns has, if anything, done an
even more lurid job this time; the Neighbor looks like
one of Vance's Pnume, or Phung, or whatever.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alastair Reynolds [mailto:areynold at estsa2.estec.esa.nl]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 10:54 AM
To: whorl at lists.best.com
Subject: Re: (whorl) Green's Cover
Alga:
Mr. Gethers announced:
The cover of Tor's IN GREEN'S JUNGLES is now viewable
on amazon.com. Jim Burns has, if anything, done an
even more lurid job this time; the Neighbor looks like
one of Vance's Pnume, or Phung, or whatever.
You would certainly remove the cover if you planned
to read the book
in a public place.
Perhaps there should be a law saying that all lurid covers should be printed on the back with something sober and respectable - "10 secrets of success in business management" or something, so they can reversed for use in public.
Wolfe's a difficult one though isn't he -
the writing is of such excellent literary merit that you feel he ought to have a nice, tasteful up-market cover with no horrible SF things on it - on the other hand, his work is crammed full of nifty stuff for artists to illustrate...
Since one of the things literature does is help us see through false value systems, why not start with this one? A fear of being seen reading a book with "lurid covers" is prissy. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.
Best,
Jim
*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.
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