Images

In A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows, X, Flandry rescues Kossara from a Merseian. For once, a cover illustration depicts this scene accurately. See the attached image. Similarly, one cover of Satan's World accurately depicts David Falkayn's fight with a Shenn and his robot. See the second image. Why can't more cover images be like these?

 Imagine accurate adaptations of these novels into sequential art story-telling (comic strips), animations and live-action films. Poul Anderson's prose describes scenes that should be re-presented in more than one visual medium. Ythrians in flight, Merseians, Betelgeuseans, the Chereionite etc and their diverse planetary environments would look good both in cartoons and as computer-generated images.

Personally, I would appreciate a graphic novel as much as a serious screen dramatization. Each of these cover shows us what just one panel might look like.