Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Savard Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Cover art mixup Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 19:58:16 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 44 Message-ID: <3gkh7jl21vnocaut9td83kibuv3ki013hk@4ax.com> References: <3J0eO.13057$zMs3.10787@fx48.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 03:58:18 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="08c057bc424ace3f7c545cf36a698190"; logging-data="777762"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX181OiGD2aJh1FiJKfYnk7HOmaUVOfj4z28=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:mI4DnNvg2cVypNmD3RzhM5/ad/I= X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 3.3/32.846 Bytes: 3132 On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:46:39 -0500, Lee Gleason wrote: >On 6/23/2024 7:55 AM, James Nicoll wrote: >> In article , >> Robert Woodward wrote: >>> In article , >>> Lee Gleason wrote: >>> >>>> It the late 70s, early 80s, there was an SF paperback published that >>>> mistakenly used the cover art intended for a different novel from the >>>> same publisher. Does anyone recall the name of the book? It was pretty >>>> widely discussed at the time. >>>> >>> >>> Publishers have used inappropriate cover art that they had on hand for >>> decades. It is possible that you are referring to the first edition of >>> Lawrence Watt-Evans's _The Unwilling Warlord_ (1989) that used Darrell >>> Sweet art that was originally done for a Lloyd Arthur Eshbach title >>> (IIRC, _The Scroll of Lucifer_, released in 1990). This is later than >>> you specified. >> >> I wonder if Lee is not referring to a famous story about Jack Vance >> complaining about his book cover. This inspired, iirc, an artist to >> take special care with the cover he was working on for a non-Vance >> book. The result was so good the published decided it was perfect >> to replace the cover Jack Vance was bitching about. >> >> I think the Vance was Araminta Station. >> > > > These sound interesting, but not what I was looking for. I dimly >recall that one of the covers had a woman on it, holding a small >creature like it was a baby. The book it was affixed to had nothing to >do with that, but another book from the same publisher around the same >time had a plot it fit perfectly. This piqued my curiosity enough to lead me to attempt a Google search. I found an interesting page not directly related to your query: https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2011/12/25/adventures-in-science-fiction-cover-art-reusing-cover-art/ John Savard