[projectaon] Re: [projectaon]

  • From: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Daelthasaar@xxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:22:12 +0000

Gabriele "Daelthasaar" Tolu wrote: 

The following was sent from the Project Aon contact form
Subject: I'm in project Aon but looks like I'm in Daziarn
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Hi. That's Gabriele speaking (typing actually).
I'm an Italian 27 years old fan that began reading on a regular basis when he 
was 6 thanks to mr. Dever, may Ishtar bless him and the Kai protect him. You 
can't imagine how much I would love to work with you but I can't actually do 
nothing 'cause I don't own the original books.I own only the books in italian 
from 1 to 26, first blessed press, because I bought them on the very first day 
of sale, and I didn't buy 27 and 28 because that bastard gourgaz-headed editor 
changed all the layout of the books and the thing quite pissed me out. I would 
have bought even the new print just from the beginning but it's nearly 
impossible to find and, let me add, it's uglier than the first glorious one.
I have downloaded everything I could and I read quite everything but I miss two 
thing.
1. I didn't quite understand about the abridged fact.
2. I miss the covers!
I know that there are a lot of different covers for each edition of the books 
but... where are they? Lost in the Daziarn?
Personally I grew upwith the ones of Peter Andrew Jones, A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, they 
blow me up every time is see them.
If I can give you hand, a finger or just a piece of nail, just ask me, I'll be 
very proud to lend it to you.
Greatest of all thanx to you for what you're doing.
Gabriele "Daelthasaar" Tolu

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Hi Gabriele

We're always pleased to hear from fellow Lone Wolf fans who enjoy what Project Aon has released so far; we will to continue until the job is done!

The abridgement was an unusual decision by the American publishers to reduce the number of numbered sections for Books 13-20, which would also reduce the number of pages in each book. They did this to keep the prices of the books down in the belief that putting the prices up might cause the sales to drop. In every Lone Wolf Grand Master book, there is a section where Lone Wolf can choose between two major paths; for example, in The Plague-lords of Ruel, you can approach Mogaruith either through the mountains or through the forest. The abridged versions dropped the route through the mountains entirely. Similar editing happened in books 14-20. Since they also had to re-number most of the sections, it also led to a lot more broken links.

We at Project Aon are publishing only the complete, unabridged versions.

As far as the covers are concerned, there are several issues: 1) each book has had many covers; some of the UK books alone have had 3 or 4 different covers each! Add in the American covers, and those from other countries, and we have too many to choose from. 2) If we wanted to distribute the cover artwork, we would need to contact the cover artist who painted it. Since there are so many, this could be a problem. 3) As part of a webpage using the current layout we have, the covers actually look rather out of place.

If we ever manage to get PDF versions of the books available for download, it is likely we would add in the a cover for each, but we consider it's probably best not to worry about it right now. We hope this doesn't lessen your enjoyment of the books too much.

And just for the record, I agree that Peter Andrew Jones' work is superb! He's definitely my favourite cover artist. :-)

Kind regards,

--
Simon Osborne
(on behalf of Project Aon)


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