{"id":3310,"date":"2012-02-24T07:55:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T12:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2012-02-24T07:55:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T12:55:44","slug":"charles-moll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/charles-moll\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Moll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago the <a href=\"http:\/\/theporporbooksblog.blogspot.com\/\">PorPor Books Blog<\/a> (a great source of old sci comic scans and book reviews) posted <a href=\"http:\/\/theporporbooksblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/book-review-whole-man-by-john-brunner-2.html\">a review of a John Brunner book with a Charles Moll cover<\/a>. That cover was so cool that I decided to put together a post for y&#8217;all of other Moll covers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2012-02-24_image1.jpg\" alt=\"Huon of the Horn by Andre Norton Cover by Charles Moll\"><br \/><em>Huon of the Horn<\/em> by Andre Norton. I dig the textures and patterning. Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/people.uncw.edu\/smithms\/Ace_5N3.html\">Ace Image Library<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2012-02-24_image2.jpg\" alt=\"The Best of Keith Laumer Cover by Charles Moll\"><br \/><em>The Best of Keith Laumer<\/em>. This cover is so creepy. I love how Moll rendered the tarp-like carapace. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parakeets4peace.com\/laumer\/Bibliography02.html\">a visual bibliography of Keith Laumer<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2012-02-24_image3.jpg\" alt=\"The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov Cover by Charles Moll\"><br \/><em>The Gods Themselves<\/em> by Isaac Asimov. This includes some cool gradients without being totally overwhelming like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paperbackfantasies.jjelmquist.com\/images\/moll\/MoorcockDreaming.htm\">these<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paperbackfantasies.jjelmquist.com\/images\/moll\/MoorcockSleeping.htm\">two<\/a> Moorcock covers. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/retrosapien\/1371662075\/\">retrosapien&#8217;s Flickr stream<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I was putting together this post, I realized that I have some Moll covers in my collection and I&#8217;ve scanned them and posted them to my Flickr <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hypercastle\/5153004819\/in\/set-72157603306987598\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hypercastle\/2141726561\/in\/set-72157603306987598\">here<\/a> (Moll did the cover on the right in that second link). Also if you want to see more, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paperbackfantasies.jjelmquist.com\/moll.htm\">this great list of Moll covers with large images on Paperback Fantasies<\/a>. Moll did great covers for a bunch of Barry Malzberg books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago the PorPor Books Blog (a great source of old sci comic scans and book reviews) posted a review of a John Brunner book with a Charles Moll cover. That cover was so cool that I decided to put together a post for y&#8217;all of other Moll covers: Huon of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-3310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-charles-moll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}