5/13/2023 0 Comments The silver metal lover![]() ![]() (The DAW paperback, though, has Lee’s own artwork on the inside, which is a plus.) The version on the right, though less Renaissance-like and without sfumato, rightly captures his bland, optimistic nature, though in the story the mechanics of his left arm were not exposed like that. Both are more in keeping with the character, though in the left version he seems to have a freakishly small head on a too-burly neck, and his clockwork eye, described in the book as a symbol of his artificial nature, gets lost. Don Maitz may be a wonderful artist but his version of Silver, the android lover of the book, is awful, resembling a liquid metal Terminator in a blood-colored hag wig and a weird, bemused, tremulous expression on his melting face. The cover art had connived this resistance. ![]() ![]() Though an abiding Lee fan I was immune to its charms for many years until finally deciding to read it last summer. The Silver Metal Lover is perhaps Tanith Lee’s best known novel after her three Flat Earth books. ![]()
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