----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b at dd-b.net> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 3:33 PM Subject: Re: Swords, and a tolerable acquaintance with their length > 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. > -- One of the most glaring cover errors is that Vlad is always depicted as clean-shaven; when we know for a fact that he takes pride in facial hair, because Dragaerans don't have facial hair. Having said that, I really really like all of Steve's covers. P.S. Yes, I probably misspelled 'dragaeran'