{"id":98,"date":"2009-01-08T21:41:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T02:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/08\/john-picacio-drood-art\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T21:42:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T02:42:06","slug":"john-picacio-drood-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/08\/john-picacio-drood-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Dan Simmons Novel May Make Your Hat Explode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image97\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/picacio-drood-cover.jpg\" alt=\"picacio-drood-cover.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=3 \/>Last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/authors\/a_grand_masters_greatest_character_reborn_83808.asp\">I interviewed illustrator John Picacio<\/a> about his work on the first volume in a new edition of Michael Moorcock&#8217;s <i>Elric<\/i> series&#8212;and a collection of Moorcock&#8217;s Seaton Begg stories called <i>The Metatemporal Detective<\/i>. It&#8217;s the Victorian-askew look of the latter that came to mind this morning when I got a look at Picacio&#8217;s artwork for <a href=\"http:\/\/subterraneanpress.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/08\/a-first-look-at-the-rough-cover-for-drood-by-dan-simmons\/\">a limited edition of <i>Drood<\/i><\/a>, the new Dan Simmons novel that asks the question, &#8220;Did the famous and loveable and honourable Charles Dickens plot to murder an innocent person and dissolve away his flesh in a pit of caustic lime and secretly inter what was left of him, mere bones and a skull, in the crypt of an ancient cathedral that was an important part of Dicken&#8217;s own childhood?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, now that the question&#8217;s been put on the table, we&#8217;ve got to know, right?<\/p>\n<p>Subterranean Press will be publishing 500 signed, numbered copies of <i>Drood<\/i> for $80; for $500, you can get one of just 26 copies that comes in a custom traycase. If those options seem too steep, there&#8217;s always <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0316007021 \">the regular trade edition from Little, Brown<\/a> coming in a few weeks. Although the cover art to that edition, while suitably atmospheric, isn&#8217;t quite as&#8230; arresting, shall we say, as Picacio&#8217;s take on the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I interviewed illustrator John Picacio about his work on the first volume in a new edition of Michael Moorcock&#8217;s Elric series&#8212;and a collection of Moorcock&#8217;s Seaton Begg stories called The Metatemporal Detective. It&#8217;s the Victorian-askew look of the latter that came to mind this morning when I got a look at Picacio&#8217;s artwork [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}