(urth) Wolfe covers

[Jeff Wilson]

On 1/2/2011 8:52 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
> *From:* Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
> **
> On 1/2/2011 5:25 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>  >> *From:* Son of Witz <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org
> <mailto: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.
>
> That's sunlight? Maybe I have no idea what the cover is supposed to
> show, beside Severian and Lune.
>
>  > 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.
>
> It certainly seems reasonable, but the glass shouldn't interfere with
> the green that Severian mentions seeing, and a glassed sphere would just
> have one highlight from the sun, I think.

Not a single glass sphere, lots of domes. The color is accurate; the 
same sun shines on green Lune, green Gyoll, and the greenery in the 
Botanical Gardens, even while it looks red when viewed directly.

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