<div>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 (<em>definitely</em> better than the Fantasy Masterworks version [shudder].)</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:29 PM, James Wynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">crushtv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">His short story collections typically are better, but I agree that none are as good as this.<br>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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<div class="h5"><br><br>On 10/25/2011 12:25 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">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?<br>
<br>-DOJP<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Daniel Petersen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com" target="_blank">danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">There was what I thought was a recent one that was more or less about this called 'Lief in the Wind' - collected in <i>Stories</i>, edited by Neil Gaiman. Great idea and a few finely worded moments, but not one of my favourites by Wolfe.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:00 PM, James Wynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com" target="_blank">crushtv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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