{"id":6364,"date":"2009-11-19T04:26:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T03:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6364"},"modified":"2009-11-19T05:29:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T04:29:16","slug":"more-book-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/11\/19\/more-book-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"More book covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/image-swirl.googlelabs.com\/html?query=cthulhu#\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/cthulhu.jpg\" alt=\"cthulhu.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/haunter\/cthulhu_rising.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cthulhu portraits<\/a> as it appears in <a href=\"http:\/\/image-swirl.googlelabs.com\/html?query=cthulhu#\" target=\"_blank\">Image Swirl<\/a>, a new Google feature-in-search-of-a-purpose. Yes, I own a portion of the Googleverse, or the Googleverse owns a portion of me; the latter seems more likely. As well as being the cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/haunter\/haunter.html\" target=\"_blank\">my Lovecraft volume<\/a>, that picture appeared earlier this year on a reprint of <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Call-of-Cthulhu-and-Other-Dark-Tales\/H-P-Lovecraft\/e\/9781435116436\/?itm=16\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Call of Cthulhu<\/em><\/a> from Barnes &amp; Noble.<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re on the subject\u2014and book covers are never far away, as yesterday&#8217;s post demonstrates\u2014I was asked to contribute to this week&#8217;s Mind Meld discussion at SF Signal, answering the question &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2009\/11\/mind-meld-the-most-memorable-sff-book-covers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Which are the most memorable book covers in science fiction and fantasy?<\/a>&#8221; Some of the entries in my list have been discussed here in the past. Compared to the other responses I come across like I&#8217;m giving a lecture&#8230; And there was further sf cover discussion at <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5406979\/a-history-of-16-science-fiction-classics-told-in-book-covers\" target=\"_blank\">io9<\/a> this week. Good to see older generations of artists and designers still receiving enthusiastic attention.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/07\/26\/science-fiction-and-fantasy-covers\/\">Science fiction and fantasy covers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my Cthulhu portraits as it appears in Image Swirl, a new Google feature-in-search-of-a-purpose. Yes, I own a portion of the Googleverse, or the Googleverse owns a portion of me; the latter seems more likely. As well as being the cover of my Lovecraft volume, that picture appeared earlier this year on a reprint &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/11\/19\/more-book-covers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More book covers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4,21,48,26,20,15,23],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-6364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","category-lovecraft","category-science-fiction","category-technology","category-work","tag-cthulhu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1EE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}