TCATHR Penguin Classics Pre-order

[BeelzeBob]

You can now go on Amazon and pre-order the Penguin Classics edition of The Conspiracy Against The Human Race. It's showing a release date of October 2, 2018. New preface!!

https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Against-Human-Race-Contrivance/dp/0143133144/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1519927776&sr=8-2&keywords=ligotti+conspiracy

 

https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Against-Human-Race-Contrivance/dp/0143133144/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1519927776&sr=8-2&keywords=ligotti+conspiracy

[dr. locrian]

Thanks for breaking this wonderful news, BeelzeBob.

[BeelzeBob]

I'd love to take credit, but some folks had already been talking about it for a couple of days in the 'Literary News' thread. I didn't see that until after I'd made the new post.

Hideous ####ing cover. I'll stick with my handsome Hippocampus edition, thank you.

[In A Dark Light]

I'm surprised to have read numerous negative comments aimed towards Chris Mars cover art for the two Ligotti Penguin Classics today, both here and in another thread.

People are entitled to their opinions of course - and I'm certainly not here to tell people that they're wrong just because I happen to disagree with them - but as an admirer of the work of Chris Mars, I feel his art perfectly reflects the nature of certain aspects of Ligotti's writings.

[Mr. Veech]

I too prefer the more restrained Hippocampus edition cover, but I don't think the Penguin edition is hideous.

Ray Brassier's original preface was admittedly bad, though (he can't write a coherent sentence).

[Frater_Tsalal]

Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Veech

I too prefer the more restrained Hippocampus edition cover, but I don't think the Penguin edition is hideous. Ray Brassier's original preface was admittedly bad, though (he can't write a coherent sentence).

Tell me about it. I read Nihil Unbound.

I'm not crazy about the cover, but so long as it gets the book to a bigger audience, I suppose that's all that really matters. And seeing as the book's central message is pretty ugly, unpleasant, and not fun to look at, I suppose it's only apropos that its mirrored by the cover art, ha ha...

[Shadow Puppet]

Not that I dislike the covers for the Penguin editions, per se, but I am curious as to how much say Ligotti has in the art chosen.

[dr. locrian]

Quote Originally Posted by Nirvana In Karma

Hideous ####ing cover. I'll stick with my handsome Hippocampus edition, thank you.

I do love the original cover.

The Penguin edition, though, is newly revised with a preface by Ligotti. And the PB version costs half what the Hippocampus PB costs.

Also, I dig the new Mars cover, though art is subjective.

I'll take both versions.

Note: the Hippocampus book will be out of print soon since the contract is almost up.

[dr. locrian]

For what it's worth, Tom also loved the Mars' Songs/Grimscribe cover. I haven't asked him about this one, but I know he likes Mars' style.