Five ’70s SF Cover Artists Who Stay True to the Story

[james_davis_nicoll]

Five ’70s SF Cover Artists Who Stay True to the Story

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[maruad]

I remember one Canadian author talking about the DKS cover that was scheduled for his first book. His agent and editor were both so happy for him because DKS covers sold books. No one really knew why but they sold books. The author despised the cover so much that he convinced the editor to let him design his own cover. They did and his career survived and Charles de Lint is still writing 35 year later.

I do remember Dave Duncan getting a DKS cover for his second book. He did well from it iirc.

Funny, two of the nicest writers I have ever met and I met them at the same convention. It was a co-incidence that we were using Canada Council funding to bring in extra writers for Keycon. IIRC our guests included Gene Wolfe and several of the Scribblies from the Twin Cities got shoe horned in when they showed up.

[bolindbergh]

That would have been this one:

Yep, a pretty accurate rendition of both characters.

[maruad]

Hmmm... I had thought it was The Reluctant Swordsman (because, iirc, that was a DKS cover) but I had forgotten that Shadow was his second book.

I hadn't realized (or I had forgotten he had passed). All my memories of him are fond ones.