And as usual, the UK cover art (linked below) seems much superior to the American version, here: http://www.amazon.com/Unseen-Academicals-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0061161705/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235934333&sr=1-7
Dear Gods, why do publishing houses hate on Americans so badly?
I have no idea. In Pratchett's case, I think it might have been the scantily clad ladies on the early books (Moving Pictures, for example) that were deemed unfit for prudish Americans, and after starting out one way they couldn't change halfway in.
That doesn't sound really likely to me though - they never seem to think twice normally about changing style half way through. And he's done a hell of a lot of books for them to be still tied into an old deal.
Plus the usual problem with American fantasy covers that I've seen is that they look like soft porn, regardless of what the book is about.
*MySmiley*
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
So, who else has Unseen Academicals pre-ordered?
- 02/09/2009 08:18:56 PM
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Being an uninformed Yank, I'm afraid the football parody will go over my head. *NM*
- 03/09/2009 01:07:11 AM
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