These (there are two!) are mood books; if you poke at the scenery or try to make the world-building make sense you're going to wind up covered in paper mache and regret. There are moments in them when the mood works anyway.
The copy I had was the first one on the second row; not peak Whelan, but pretty good as these things go. (I mean, it's not especially convincing tack, but it is at least tack.)
I was using "peak Whelan" as a stand-in for "high end cover"[1], rather than trying to identify the cover as a Whelan, which I am pretty sure it isn't.
[1]Julian May's "The Nonborn King" has a great cover, whatever you think of the book. That kind of "peak Whelan" cover.
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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2020-10-11 09:35 am
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That's an impressively terrible cover.
These (there are two!) are mood books; if you poke at the scenery or try to make the world-building make sense you're going to wind up covered in paper mache and regret. There are moments in them when the mood works anyway.
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(Anonymous) 2020-10-11 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)--
Nathan H.
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The copy I had was the first one on the second row; not peak Whelan, but pretty good as these things go. (I mean, it's not especially convincing tack, but it is at least tack.)
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I was using "peak Whelan" as a stand-in for "high end cover"[1], rather than trying to identify the cover as a Whelan, which I am pretty sure it isn't.
[1]Julian May's "The Nonborn King" has a great cover, whatever you think of the book. That kind of "peak Whelan" cover.
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