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The cover on the original Operation Ares paperback pretty good. The
cover on the original paperback for tIoDDaOSaOS was better than the
one with the purple skull. I preferred the paperback cover of
"Endangered Species" with the giant pollen spore to the stick wings
one. Usually, however, the original covers to the Long Sun volumes
were atrocious IMO. It's the original edition novels that tend to be
the worst offenders.<br>
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However the original covers and illustrations for The Wizard
Knight, Pirate Freedom, and And Evil Guest are very good. Usually,
it seems the best his first editions can hope for is to be
unoffensive.<br>
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J.<br>
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On 10/25/2011 1:04 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
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<div>Hm, out of what I actually own, I guess I might go for Island
of Dr Death (purple skull) or Endangered Species (stick wings).
This one's probably the worst I own:</div>
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<div>(The sheer hilarity value is almost worth it.)</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:57 PM, James
Wynn <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">The cover of Starwater
Strains is surely my favorite.
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On 10/25/2011 12:50 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
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<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>-DOJP<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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