M&D Cover musings.

[Brian D. McCary]

Ditto on all the cover praise.  Interestingly, the front cover itself
can be read as son & xon (son and szon).  That, combined with the dedication
to Jackson (although Thompson would have been an even more intriging name)
got me to thinking about a progression in his work.  It seems like the early
books and short stories were increasingly centered around death.  In
GR, he finally got his hands around the problem and said what he had to
say.  In Vineland, he starts trying a new direction, and the children
in the book start moving toward center stage, and are no longer the feral
packs of orphans which appear through GR.  This trend may, or may not
hold up with M&D.

So, as a youth, he writes about death, and as an older man, he turns
towards youth and life?

Brian McCary