(urth) Words and Such art

[Daniel Petersen]

How have I not consciously noticed that before about the short story
collections?  You're absolutely right, James, and it's heartening.  I now
see that I had subconsciously registered this all along, but I think my
conscious disgust and ire at the series and novel covers was choking out all
distinction in my mind, heh.  As weirdly plain and bright as that 'Gollancz
50' cover is for Shadow and Claw, I think it might actually be better than
most of the others (*definitely* better than the Fantasy Masterworks version
[shudder].)

-DOJP

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:29 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> His short story collections typically are better, but I agree that none are
> as good as this.
> Probably, the collections are not as bad because Tor doesn't expect to make
> a lot of money off them and so the Art Director did not get involved. Wolfe
> claimed that expectations of increasing sales is the reason the covers of
> The Book of the New Sun volumes got worse with each release.
>
>
> On 10/25/2011 12:25 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
>
> Also, why can't the quality and style of the Wolfe-inspired art at this
> link ever be one of Wolfe's book covers instead of the (what is to me)
> atrocious genre-inbred kitsch that usually wraps up his literary art that is
> itself at the opposite end of the spectrum?
>
> -DOJP
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Daniel Petersen <
> danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There was what I thought was a recent one that was more or less about this
>> called 'Lief in the Wind' - collected in *Stories*, edited by Neil
>> Gaiman.  Great idea and a few finely worded moments, but not one of my
>> favourites by Wolfe.
>>
>> -DOJP
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:00 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://liamkruger.tumblr.com/post/11311695396/heyoscarwilde-gene-wolfe-once-did-a-story-about
>>> "Gene Wolfe once did a story about astronauts that had birds inside of
>>> them. "
>>>
>>> Which story is he talking about?
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