Dragaera

Swords, and a tolerable acquaintance with their length

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Sat Aug 17 12:33:16 PDT 2002

Matthew Hunter <matthew at infodancer.org> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 05:55:38PM -0700, Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> wrote:
> > The real answer to his question is that he is paying too much attention to 
> > the cover, fer chrissakes.  It is a *wonderful* cover, but attempting to 
> > translate that kind of detail from text to cover is just asking to be 
> > confused.
> 
> Well, I'm trying to reconcile the text with the cover, and
> wondering where in a number of possibilities the error lay.
> If the answer is "The cover artist is smoking crack", so be it.

Detailed accuracy in a cover is very much not something to expect.
Heck, I've stopped even *hoping* for it.  Apart from everything else,
it often interferes with the important purpose of the cover.
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