page 394 in the hardcover:

"A large crowd had gathered on the near side of the river at the first stone of one of the most unusual bridges Renie had ever seen.  It was made entirely of rectangular stone pillars stretching crookedly across the river like a linear stonehenge.  Although they were of slightly different heights, none of them seemed to be more than a meter or so from its neighbor."

This is exactly the scene on the cover.

Wolfshade

Well, I also thought at first it was the Stone Girl, but if you take a closer look at it, the depicted child doesn't really fit to the description of the Stone Girl.
On the other hand, I think Michael Whelan took some freedom, which is okay, because I think the cover artwork for all the novels is really well done.
And for example the mountain of black glass he drew doesn't really fit to the description in the book either.
Check out http://www.michaelwhelan.com  , there he comments on his works for Otherland, and also shows some of his previous ideas , very cool different pics of the Mountain there, too.

[ July 24, 2001: Message edited by: Wintermoon ]

Y' can't go around telling Michael Whelan to be faithful. Jeez how many Hugos is he up to yet? He's one of the High Ghods of SF/Fantasy Art, with a whole industry built around selling his paintings and photoprints, comanding absolute top dollar to do cover art for A-list books! Not  to diss him. I think his art is beautiful. And it's available on t-shirts and coffee mugs and about three coffee table books by now and signed and numbered limited editions and....

Kristin

@Tad: Really ? He is on the cover ???
Hmm, wait, let me guess..
Is he the guy with the glasses and the green cap down in the middle ? To the right of the girl in the pink dress ?

And I never wanted to criticize Mr. Whelan's art just because something wasn't drawn as described in the book.
It's ART...and he has done a great job.
Right now on his page there is this gallery of the covers he drew for the Sepultura CD's...I soo loved the Arise pic, looks so weird.

We already have wallpaper of the Shadowmarch castle -- go see the "Free offers" part of the "About" section.

And we will have some of Matt's work available as wallpaper, too, for subscribers.

I wonder if he's the guy in glasses, too...

oooh! ooooh!ooooh! i wanted that book, The Golden Key, but it evaporated out of my bookstore too fast...maybe i'll order it...hmmmmmm *starts wringing hands like an evil scientist*

wellll, i -really- wanted it for the cover. is that wrong of me?

hey, i have that bookmark! very cool...i also have that pic in bigger form on my cubie wall-at least, when i have my OWN cubie. i'm in a temp desk while my area waits to get built out. that's one of my faves of mr. whelan's.....

Wolfshade wrote:

page 394 in the hardcover:

"A large crowd had gathered on the near side of the river at the first stone of one of the most unusual bridges Renie had ever seen.  It was made entirely of rectangular stone pillars stretching crookedly across the river like a linear stonehenge.  Although they were of slightly different heights, none of them seemed to be more than a meter or so from its neighbor."

This is exactly the scene on the cover.

Wolfshade

thanks for the clarification, Wolfshade.  It's so funny because in my mind I pictured that bridge so very differently that I just didn't recognize it on the cover.  Sometimes I'm just a little slow on the uptake.