From: "Roy C. Lackey" 
Subject: Re: (urth) From the Cradle
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 14:30:14 -0600

alga quoted and wrote:
>> Ron Crown wrote:
>> >I just read this story from Greg Ketter's Shelf Life anthology (rare
>> >book lovers, N.B. the title).  Good, solid Wolfe, with an amusing pun
>> >which is also a clue.  It's also another example of GW's love for
>> >telling stories within the story; what's more, the stories are all from
>> >a brown book (!) containing "tales of wonder!"  Recommended.
>>
>> Take a look at the credits on the back, inside flap of the dust jacket.
>
>To  paraphrase Paul Simon: Don't be coy, Roy.
>Enquiring minds want to know.

Just a bit of fatherly hubris. My son, Sean, is a friend of the artist, John
Picacio, who did the dust jacket illustration and design. Sean was involved
with the digital photography of the art "assemblage" from which the image on
the cover was made, and is acknowledged there.

-Roy


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