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Do you enjoy a fantasy book more if the cover art is awesome and comfy/atmospheric?
I hate how most fantasy covers are just close ups of swords. What happened to kino like this?

>> No.22024900

>>22024891
I read all of these in high school as they came out, and the cover art helped but always puzzled me. It seldommatched the stories

I quit after the scion of cyador

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These were kino fantasy book art, I started reading this around the same time Runecape Classic was released.

>> No.22026558

>>22024891
Very much

The cover art for The Chronicles of Prydain from the 1980s (I think) when I got those Dell Yearling paperbacks as hand me downs caught my eye for their simplicity yet what was being depicted was interesting.

And way back in 2002 when I first read ASOIAF at my local library, the first 3 books had awesome covert art. Don't know why they didn't keep it.

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I don't like that one example in the OP, but yeah. Whenever I see modern fantasy covers, and modern covers in general, I can't imagine why anyone would give that a chance. It's just a close up of some confusing shit.
I think that at some point marketing people were promoting something that was succesful online and would had worked with any cover or marketing model because it was already succesful, and assume that type of shit was responsible because it keeps selling. Like a cargo cult.

I'm not even thinking of sincerely attractive covers. Just some shit that makes you wonder what the fuck could be happening inside the book and give a general vibe,

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>>22024891
Michael Whelan covers are still some of my favorites.

https://www.michaelwhelan.com/gallery/illustration

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Barbara Remington's cover-art for Ballantine Books' first paperback editions The Lord of the Rings.

>> No.22028251

>>22024891
It’s sad to think that hand drawn covers will probably never return. Future publishers will just use prompt-generated synthetic images instead since they’re cheaper. They just don’t feel nearly as good as real things, dammit.

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The Elric books are some of the best for thjs kind of art

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The Death Gate Cycle

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>>22024891
A Canticle for Leibowitz

>> No.22028514

>>22024891
I HATE all cover art. I prefer to imagine how something looks myself. When I see the cover art, I can't get it out of my head and the whole experience is ruined.