Tuesday; three good things

[ellarien]

Patricia McKillip has a short story collection, Harrowing the Dragon, coming out in November.

Dan Simmons has a new message on his web site.

The Locus Forthcoming Books list has also been updated.

Oh, and one more: it looks like the end may be in sight for WOT, finally. That may be the worst cover yet, though. Three hobbits and a slightly overweight giant? I subscribed to rasfw-rj just to read the cover-art discussion, and it made me laugh out loud.

Comments

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

That's definitely the worst cover yet. Usually I can at least figure out who they're supposed to be, but this time I am stumped.

[ellarien]

The concensus on the newsgroup seems to be that the short guy in the white shirt is Perrin (!?!) but speculation on the others is all over the map, and the Aiel with what seems to be a sword is causing a fair bit of confusion. Myself, I'd suspect the older mustachioed guy of being Faile's father, but everyone seems to think that armour is Tairen.