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Re: [tor dot com] Why the Hell Are These Books Out of Print?

From ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written
Subject Re: [tor dot com] Why the Hell Are These Books Out of Print?
Date 2018-03-26 04:21 +0000
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References <p90elu$ni2$1@reader2.panix.com> <p66Bt0.169G@kithrup.com> <e0da12e3-38a7-4fb8-9a29-68958972737f@googlegroups.com> <p66J42.1MKI@kithrup.com>

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In article <p66J42.1MKI@kithrup.com>,
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
>In article <e0da12e3-38a7-4fb8-9a29-68958972737f@googlegroups.com>,
>Moriarty  <blues95@ivillage.com> wrote:
>>On Monday, March 26, 2018 at 12:30:03 PM UTC+11, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>> In article <9d4bcad0-df04-4ede-a4ef-73b4844e91ed@googlegroups.com>,
>>> Moriarty  <blues95@ivillage.com> wrote:
>>> >On Monday, March 26, 2018 at 10:00:05 AM UTC+11, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>> >> In article <6ff94383-fdba-4038-b1a1-3986f81326e7@googlegroups.com>,
>>> >> Moriarty  <blues95@ivillage.com> wrote:
>>> >> >On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 1:57:19 AM UTC+11, James Nicoll wrote:
>>> >> >
>>> >> ><snip>
>>> >> > 
>>> >> >> I don't think the Baen cover for The Interior Life was helpful.
>>> >> >
>>> >> >I actually quite like it. As Dorothy has pointed out, it bears little
>>> >> >resemblance to anything actually in the book, but as generic artwork for
>>> >> >a fantasy novel, it's ok.
>>> >> 
>>> >> Yeah, but.
>>> >> 
>>> >> You do know it got recycled (so I was told) for an entirely
>>> >> different novel later?
>>> >
>>> >No, I didn't.  I'm curious now as to what it was.
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to remember if I ever knew what it was, or if somebody
>>> just told me "that cover's now been used for an entirely
>>> different book."
>>> 
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> Just searched through all the stuff I still have on disk
>>> regarding _TIL_ and found,
>>> 
>>> > I don't blame you.  *I* was put off by the cover.  (Which, so I'm
>>> > told, later got re-used for the cover of some kind of historical
>>> > novel, which I hope it fitted better than it did _IL_.) 
>>> 
>>> So if I ever knew, I've forgotten.
>>
>>A bit of detective work yields...
>>
>>https://www.litmir.me/data/Book/0/6000/6525/BC4_1490513637.jpg
>>
>>Either TIL had a Russian translation, or that's it.
>
>Bozhemoi.
>
>That's Russian for OMG.
>
>I tried to learn Russian once, and still remember bits of the
>Cyrillic alphabet.  The large-print name at the top of the cover
>reads "TOLKEN."
>
>So that is neither _The Interior Life_ nor some kind of
>historical novel, but a ripped-off cover for an undoubtedly
>ripped-off work by Tolkien.  I can't decipher the rest of the
>Russian; can anybody?
>

The Baen cover for _Hell On High_ ended up as a Czech beer label..
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  Re: [tor dot com] Why the Hell Are These Books Out of Print? D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-03-22 16:20 +0000
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