(urth) Got a spare grand-and-half?

[Gwern Branwen]

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On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Son of Witz  wrote:
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>>It features 7 full page, full color illustrations by German artist
>>Alexander Preuss."
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> Did Preuss understand what he read?  Seems to have missed the boat in a lot of ways.  Obviously he's done a lot of hard work and some of this stuff looks great.  But I have lots of issues with these not conforming to the text very closely.  I have so many complaints here I should just not get started, I suppose.
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> most of the plates.
> http://www.abalakin.de/special_080216.asp
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> a few more
> http://www.abalakin.de/gallery.asp

I suppose we oughtn't to blame Preuss:

"Everey item that was visualized was good researched by me and from
some hardcore Gene Wolfe fans i met on the internet."

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gwern