(urth) Gene Wolfe Covers

[DAVID STOCKHOFF]

Crimes upon crimes! I thought she looked a little elvish.




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> From: Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>
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>I was confused by the one with the sword-toting elf as well.  It look really familiar (the artwork is very similar to that of the Mistborn  series), and after some digging I found that the cover was just taken from this book.  This explains the disconnect between the cover and, well, virtually everything about The Shadow of the Torturer. 
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>On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:08 AM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:
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>Exquisite. A couple look like standard S&S, but I especially like the scene in the mountains before little Severian is killed. I like Severian as a monk, although it's not quite right---too brown.
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>>The Lake of Birds is great for suggesting the opposite of S&S---it looks almost like a modern cover for a Victorian novel, and in a sense it may be the truest to Wolfe's literary side.
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>>Who would be the woman with the sword?
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>>On 1/30/2013 8:36 AM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:
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>>Not sure if you guys saw this or if it has made the rounds already, but here are some great (and not so great) foreign covers for TBONS:
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>>>http://imgur.com/a/P5tDY
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The Italian /The Claw of the Conciliator /is beautiful, imo.
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