(urth) Wolfe covers

[Jeff Wilson]

On 1/2/2011 5:25 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
> *From:* Son of Witz <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>
> **
>  > Re: Shirtless. Don Maitz's cover painting for the hardcover BotNS SF
> Book Club Edition shows
>  > his chest, in shadow. Mostly you don't notice it, the cloak dominates.
>
> Not a bad way to handle it, I think.
>
>  > It's a nice enough painting, but TE is held out like a throbbing hardon,
>
> I though you might be exaggerating till I looked at the picture.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Book-New-Sun-Gene-Wolfe/dp/1568658079
>
>  > and Severian is framed by a huge full moon,
>
> (Which is insufficiently green. And where's the red sunlight?)

?? The red sunlight is rather prominent at the lower left. If you mean 
the grazing reflection from Lune, it's accurate if you agree with my 
hypothesis that it's glassed over like the Botanic Gardens.

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