{"id":327,"date":"2008-04-19T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/04\/19\/son-of-man-the-final-art\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:48:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:48:17","slug":"son-of-man-the-final-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/04\/19\/son-of-man-the-final-art\/","title":{"rendered":"SON OF MAN \/ The Final Art!"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/SOMfrontlowres.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/SOMfrontlowres.jpg?w=680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a>Crazy, intense deadline crunches over here\u2026.here\u2019s one of my finished results. Presenting the final cover of Robert Silverberg\u2019s classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Son-Man-Robert-Silverberg\/dp\/1591026466\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1208626720&amp;sr=8-1\">SON OF MAN<\/a>, forthcoming in a fresh, new trade paperback from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyrsf.com\/\">Pyr<\/a> later this year. Below is the complete wraparound art, sans typography (and the prelims are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpicacio.com\/2008\/04\/son-of-man-preliminary-work.html\">here<\/a>.) If you\u2019re not familiar with this novel, it\u2019s one of the trippiest books you\u2019ll ever encounter and for many Silverberg fans, one of his finest works to date. For whatever reason, I listened to Hendrix\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Electric-Ladyland-Jimi-Hendrix-Experience\/dp\/B000002P5U\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1208626778&amp;sr=8-1\">ELECTRIC LADYLAND<\/a> over and over this week while working on this. It just felt right.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/SOMwrap.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/SOMwrap.jpg?w=680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crazy, intense deadline crunches over here\u2026.here\u2019s one of my finished results. Presenting the final cover of Robert Silverberg\u2019s classic SON OF MAN, forthcoming in a fresh, new trade paperback from Pyr later this year. Below is the complete wraparound art, sans typography (and the prelims are here.) If you\u2019re not familiar with this novel, it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/SOMfrontlowres.jpg?fit=432%2C648","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-5h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}