<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Son of Witz <Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b></font><br>> Re: Shirtless. Don Maitz's cover painting for the hardcover BotNS SF Book Club Edition shows<br>> his chest, in shadow. Mostly you don't notice it, the cloak dominates.<br><br>Not a bad way to handle it, I think.<br><br>> It's a nice enough painting, but TE is held out like a throbbing hardon,<br><br>I though you might be exaggerating till I looked at the picture.<br><br><span><a target="_blank"
href="http://www.amazon.com/Book-New-Sun-Gene-Wolfe/dp/1568658079">http://www.amazon.com/Book-New-Sun-Gene-Wolfe/dp/1568658079</a></span><br><br>> and Severian is framed by a huge full moon,<br><br>(Which is insufficiently green. And where's the red sunlight?)<br><br>> which just seems like inapporopriate symbolic framing for the novel.<br>...<br><br>I agree. And aha! My copies of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Road to Corlay</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">A Tapestry of Time</span>, the first and third volumes of Richard Cowper's mostly delightful trilogy <span style="font-style: italic;">The White Bird of Kinship</span>, have white circles around the central characters' heads.<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/work/49009">http://www.librarything.com/work/49009</a></span><br><br>The circles match nothing in the story, though the characters are sort of saints. Those covers
too are by Don Maitz.<br><br>Jerry Friedman<br><div><br></div><div>On Jan 2, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Jerry Friedman <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jerry_friedman@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jerry_friedman@yahoo.com">jerry_friedman@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Tony Ellis <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:tonyellis69@btopenworld.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:tonyellis69@btopenworld.com">tonyellis69@btopenworld.com</a>><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b></font><br>
> Hi Daniel,<br>> are you familiar with the bewitching covers Bruce Pennington did for<br>> the first British paperback edition of the New Sun tetralogy?<br><br>> If not, these clumsy, long-ago scans I did should give you taste:<br><br><span>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/%7Eajellis/WolfeArt.htm">http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ajellis/WolfeArt.htm</a></span><br>><br>> The cover for Shadow, in particular, pretty much defines what I see in<br>> my head when I think of Urth.<br><br>Oh, goodness, not me, though I like them far better than the covers of the old Timescape paperbacks I have. But of course that's one of the problems--people see books so differently that no illustrator could match everybody's imaginations.<br><br>It's been customary for decades for fantasy covers to depict the hero shirtless, even when he shouldn't be (as on the cover of my old copy of <span style="font-style:
italic;">Hrolf
Kraki's Saga</span>, by Poul Anderson). Has anyone EVER done this for Severian?<br><br>Jerry Friedman<br></div></div>
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