On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:31:39PM -0500, Casey Rousseau <casey at the-bat.net> wrote: > > I myself first heard about Brust when I was hanging out on > > rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan. > I'm sorry that you had to wait that long. Me, I found a cool paperback > with a black cover and a dragon-like creature emerging from an egg back > in the spring of '83. Since I had run out of new McCaffrey and Heinlein > to read at the time and had a couple of dollars burning a hole in my > pocket, I bought it. I've never been tempted by a Jordan cover. What > I've heard in discussion since makes me glad of it. The Jordan covers are atrocious. If you get the author and/or publisher drunk, they will agree with you (the publisher might caveat his agreement with "But that artist does sell well..." if he's not yet sufficiently drunk). I was similarly put off but the Jordan covers on the first three books. While the quality of the writing has its peaks and valleys, the cover art has remained consistently poor. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp