Here's the aforementioned Michael Whelan, just fucking going for it in the TBTBT annals with these pictures for Stephen King's first The Dark Tower volume, called The Gunslinger. (That's the man himself moping on the beach. Cheer up, pal -- you've only got 5,600 pages of King to slog through before you get where you're going...if you get there at all, which is no sure thing. What the hell, keep moping...here, have a drink.)
Anyway, Michael Whelan, another contender for the TBTBT throne.
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Ah yes, Michael Whelan is the man. I wish I had a book of his work but I don't (and there's more than one).
You can't get much bigger a thing back there than something that's behind the sun, now can you?
Precisely the point I was trying to make.
Having just looked at the original (or, at least, my folio-sized original edition of The Gunslinger) I have to grudgingly admit that the tower might not be behind the sun. The way its edges are lit, I think it's just supposed to be up in the clouds, like, in the planet's atmosphere (if the Gunslinger's world is, in fact, a planet in the conventional sense.) "Behind the sun" just doesn't work.
However, it certainly is way back there.
Oh, I was assuming it wasn't even "back there" in the conventional sense, but rather lofty and unreachable, 5000+ pages away.
But in the internal language of the paintings, totally TBTBT.
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