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> 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 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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