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Originally Posted by Cactus Chef
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: older book covers--especially Sci-Fi/Fantasy ones--are so much cooler to look at than modern covers.
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Hmm... yes, trad-publishers these days seem to have become incredibly lazy and/or cheap. But removing the rose-tinted glasses for a while, many of the old covers were disasters on one level or another, whatever the genre. I guess some might at least have had some merit as independent artwork, which is more than can be said of many of today's generic covers, but they had just as little to do with the story as the modern ones, I just didn't understand (or care?) what was happening back then.
These days it seems you have to turn to (some) indie publishers to get much effort on covers ... although there are still some exceptions to the rule, just enough to keep me interested.