ConJose - the 60th World Science Fiction Convention

This was a Tor Books cover for Judith Tarr's novel of the same name. I had always envied Michael Whelan's use of symbolism in his book covers and had even had him recommend some books on the subject, but I just lack his sense of vision in that regard. On this cover, however, I was able to tell the story of the main characters symbolically with such success that, when it was done, I fired a copy of it off to Michael, saying "See? Symbolism. I did it." I think he was amused. I am sure that he would have done far better than I, but I was proud of my effort just the same.

	Worldcon Aug. 29 to Sept. 2, 2002 San José
David Cherry Lord of the Two Lands David A. Cherry copyright 1992 Return to source page
		This was a Tor Books cover for Judith Tarr's novel of the same name. I had always envied Michael Whelan's use of symbolism in his book covers and had even had him recommend some books on the subject, but I just lack his sense of vision in that regard. On this cover, however, I was able to tell the story of the main characters symbolically with such success that, when it was done, I fired a copy of it off to Michael, saying "See? Symbolism. I did it." I think he was amused. I am sure that he would have done far better than I, but I was proud of my effort just the same.
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