(urth) Words and Such art

James Wynn crushtv at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 10:57:10 PDT 2011


The cover of Starwater Strains is surely my favorite.

On 10/25/2011 12:50 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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.
>

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