[LMB] (news-chat) Horizon cover is up!

[Francis Turner]

It's a very nice cover.

But not very 'fantasy'. I'm sure you could put this cover on any
number of Westerns / Historicals covering migrations westwards across
the USA and it would fit (OK so you'd need a hero with a hook but
other than that...)

Mind you the same applies for Passage too.
This isn't a complaint, just a statement. I do kind of wonder what
would happen if Passage (and then Horizon) were shelved in amongst the
historical novels. Lois might pick up some new readers....


On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Lois McMaster Bujold
<lbujold at myinfmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all --
>
>    The just-completed cover by artist Julie Bell for _The Sharing
> Knife, Vol. 4: Horizon_, due out February 2009 from Eos, has now been
> added to the TSK covers page on dendarii.com (thank you, Mike
> Bernardi!)  It's at the bottom of the collection: scroll down.
>
> http://www.dendarii.co.uk/Covers/American/knife.html
>
>    I'm very pleased with it.  People, horses, and landscape all look
> like themselves, and it's a tolerably-accurately represented scene from
> the actual book.  I'm also happy with how the progression of the covers
> reflects the progression of the themes of the book -- from the formation
> of a couple, through the formation of a family (for a certain value of
> "family") through the formation of a community.  All right, so the
> community is represented on the _Horizon_ cover by the trailing mob on
> the road in the background -- Julie was calling them "the Little People"
> -- but at least they are *there*.
>
>    I had actually suggested some sort of a pastiche of this famous
> frontier painting as a jumping-off point for the _Horizon_ cover:
>
> http://kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collections/artwork.asp?accnum=WU%202171
>
>    but it was apparently felt that the frontal-facing pose had been
> "used up" by the _Passage_ cover.  We retained a sense of the
> Appalachian-like landscape, though, which makes me happy.
>
>    Ta, L.
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