Paperback Fantasies

By Jeff Elmquist

Well, the mystery of who painted the cover for A. Bertram Chandler’s book The Road to the Rim and The Hard Way Up is solved (Are These Alexander Covers? - 5 March 2010).  Thanks to the “Look Inside” feature at Amazon.com I was able to view the first few pages of the book The Beast Within: The Art of Ken Barr.  Just a few pages in, taking up a full page, is the painting in question.  Looking at the original, it quickly becomes apparent that Ace cropped the image so that the Ken Barr signature is not visible on the book cover.   So, it’s official: Ken Barr did the cover, not Paul Alexander.

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