The Castle of Iron
(From the book "Solar Wind Volume 1")
By :
Deborah Susan Jones :
Editor
Oil & acrylic on wood panel.
Created in 1979, second in the Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt trilogy for Sphere Books in London.
It
was the art director Dom Rodi’s idea that the castle could be made of
organ pipes. I was indeed momentarily seduced by this idea, but whilst
it makes for a really great image, it didn’t relate much to de Camp’s
novel.
Well, it was a very fast-moving market back then, and decisions were
often made in nano-seconds and things often got a bit warped under those
circumstances.
Peter Andrew Jones
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