New Hardcovers
Moderators: Omphalos, Freakzilla, ᴶᵛᵀᴬ
- guild navigator
- Posts: 56
- Joined: 19 Feb 2008 19:55
- Location: Rhode Island. Lithuania in the summer.
New Hardcovers
Is anyone going to buy them, or is money to the HLP money down the drain? Also, of the new covers (DM through HoD have been done so far), which do you find most striking?
If I ever stopped writing, my head would explode.
- A Thing of Eternity
- Posts: 6090
- Joined: 08 Apr 2008 15:35
- Location: Calgary Alberta
- guild navigator
- Posts: 56
- Joined: 19 Feb 2008 19:55
- Location: Rhode Island. Lithuania in the summer.
http://ebooks-imgs.connect.com/ebooks/p ... 488_s4.jpg
http://ebooks-imgs.connect.com/product/ ... 504_s4.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5 ... _OU01_.jpg
http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images ... 652358.JPG
I like the Heretics one, and the GEoD ain't bad, but these are pretty uninspired...just random desert scenes.
http://ebooks-imgs.connect.com/product/ ... 504_s4.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5 ... _OU01_.jpg
http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images ... 652358.JPG
I like the Heretics one, and the GEoD ain't bad, but these are pretty uninspired...just random desert scenes.
If I ever stopped writing, my head would explode.
- DuneFishUK
- Posts: 1991
- Joined: 25 May 2008 14:14
- Location: Cool Britannia
- Contact:
I still love that ed of COD. The incompetence
Seriously though - vintage is the way forward... I've almost completed my FH paperback collection, I'm thinking I might have to graduate onto hardbacks soon
Seriously though - vintage is the way forward... I've almost completed my FH paperback collection, I'm thinking I might have to graduate onto hardbacks soon
- http://www.kullwahad.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - http://dunefont.kullwahad.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; -
- A Thing of Eternity
- Posts: 6090
- Joined: 08 Apr 2008 15:35
- Location: Calgary Alberta
- Mandy
- Cat Herder
- Posts: 1704
- Joined: 08 Feb 2008 20:18
- Contact:
- SandChigger
- KJASF Ground Zero
- Posts: 14492
- Joined: 08 Feb 2008 22:29
- Location: A continuing state of irritation
- Contact:
Oh you anarchist you!A Thing of Eternity wrote:I went into Chapers one time and put all the COD upside down so that they made sense.
I'm certainly not going to pay for another of the Dune books with that asswipe Brian Herbert's name anywhere on it, not after how he's let Anderson shit all over them.
- GamePlayer
- 70mm God
- Posts: 2993
- Joined: 09 Feb 2008 11:26
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Some advice: don't turn them upside down. The brain subconsciously recognizes out of place objects when the brain would normally be filtering. Hence, inverted text actually draws more attention to the books. The best tactic is to turn the books around so the back cover faces forward, unless the back cover also contains very large and easily identifiable text with a branded name (such as Dune).A Thing of Eternity wrote:I went into Chapers one time and put all the COD upside down so that they made sense.
When forced into a corner by books with eye-catching text both back and front covers, your best bet is to spend several hours losing the hardcovers in random spots throughout the store. You could simply invert the dust jackets of course, but you don't wanna take the chance of being discovered, now do ya?
I mean, I hear that's what one is supposed to do. I wouldn't know myself
"They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you out."
- Redstar
- Posts: 1202
- Joined: 25 Feb 2009 04:13
- cmsahe
- Posts: 598
- Joined: 26 Aug 2008 22:40
- Location: Mexico City
No, no, no, no, Why is Brian Herbert writing introductions to the Dune novels?? he is only defiling them!guild navigator wrote:[url]http://ebo
Only the books written by Frank Herbert are canon.
Who We Are and What We Stand For
viewtopic.php?p=79778#p79778
----
Carlos Santillan, aka cmsahe
Who We Are and What We Stand For
viewtopic.php?p=79778#p79778
----
Carlos Santillan, aka cmsahe
-
- Posts: 89
- Joined: 16 Mar 2009 01:39
Thanks Redstar.
Heres the ones I was talking about liking.
The ones I bought myself are all like this. They were the only ones available locally.
Heres the ones I was talking about liking.
The ones I bought myself are all like this. They were the only ones available locally.
- SandChigger
- KJASF Ground Zero
- Posts: 14492
- Joined: 08 Feb 2008 22:29
- Location: A continuing state of irritation
- Contact:
Those are the New English Library paperbacks. That's the set I have here in Japan. (I've got a copy of the panorama illustration spread across the covers around here somewhere.... )NotAbout wrote:Heres the ones I was talking about liking.
- A Thing of Eternity
- Posts: 6090
- Joined: 08 Apr 2008 15:35
- Location: Calgary Alberta
- SandChigger
- KJASF Ground Zero
- Posts: 14492
- Joined: 08 Feb 2008 22:29
- Location: A continuing state of irritation
- Contact:
- Redstar
- Posts: 1202
- Joined: 25 Feb 2009 04:13
Thanks for the link. It doesn't appear that the images are as high-quality as one the site I linked, but the extra information provided on yours is definitely welcomed.inhuien wrote:This is the best site for covers that I (and everyone else) knows of, there's a copy of the panorama there somewhere aswell.
- guild navigator
- Posts: 56
- Joined: 19 Feb 2008 19:55
- Location: Rhode Island. Lithuania in the summer.
- TheDukester
- Posts: 3808
- Joined: 20 Jun 2008 13:44
- Location: Operation Enduring Bacon
I just got back from B&N, where I saw the hardcovers in person for the first time. It was also the first time I'd actually turned over the CoD cover with my own hands rather than just comparing images on the interwebs ... and, man, it's just so obvious. It's a sand dune; it's printed upside-down. No other interpretation is even possible.A Thing of Eternity wrote:I went into Chapers one time and put all the COD upside down so that they made sense.
The fact that no one involved — the authors, the HLP, the morons at the publishing company, and certainly not that spineless coward Byron Merritt — will admit to such a blatant error leaves me shaking my head in disgust. Spineless jellyfish, every one of them.
"Anything I write will be remembered and listed in bibliographies on Dune for several hundred years ..." — some delusional halfwit troll.
- Tio_Holtzmann
- Posts: 10
- Joined: 22 Feb 2009 05:01
- chanilover
- Posts: 1644
- Joined: 18 Feb 2008 08:29
I call it the Caladan syndrome. I had this out with Byron over on Dungnovels with this whole embarrassingly retarded fuck up over Paul's birthplace. Even after pointing out to Byron that it says Paul was born on Caladan on the first page of Dune and Bobo mentioned Frank's boat called Caladan which was named after Paul's birthplace, Byron still insisted on posting links to the wretched explanation that Irulan made it all up.TheDukester wrote:I just got back from B&N, where I saw the hardcovers in person for the first time. It was also the first time I'd actually turned over the CoD cover with my own hands rather than just comparing images on the interwebs ... and, man, it's just so obvious. It's a sand dune; it's printed upside-down. No other interpretation is even possible.A Thing of Eternity wrote:I went into Chapers one time and put all the COD upside down so that they made sense.
The fact that no one involved — the authors, the HLP, the morons at the publishing company, and certainly not that spineless coward Byron Merritt — will admit to such a blatant error leaves me shaking my head in disgust. Spineless jellyfish, every one of them.
It's not the fact that they got the birthplace wrong which bothers me, it's the insult to their readers' intelligence and complete contempt for their consumers over at the HLP which I found the most disgusting part of the whole business. They just simply can't admit the error, and will spin any old shit
Meh, fuck them.
"You and your buddies and that b*tch Mandy are nothing but a gang of lying, socially maladjusted losers." - St Hypatia of Arrakeen.