Jan 12
Click for full imageEVIL CHILDREN! With red eyes! And lasers coming from an evil red orb or possibly some sort of moon, lighting up the evil child with even more red! And People! Just watching the red moon! Ok, I’m calmed down, what’s this about a book cover?
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January 12th, 2010 at 10:35 am
That’s a big lollipop. I worry about the kid’s teeth.
January 12th, 2010 at 10:42 am
The organisers of Red Nose Day had to concede that the Floating Laser Nose had been a misjudgement . . .
January 12th, 2010 at 10:47 am
haha very good. 🙂
Maybe they are just all playing swing ball. With a child as a post. As you do.
January 12th, 2010 at 11:28 am
The author has a very interesting wiki page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenna_Henderson
Shatner was in the only movie adaption of one of her novels… not sure if he plays as one of the little girls though…
January 12th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Floating Laser Noses would encourage people to donate to charitable causes, though. I vote we adopt them.
January 13th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
This is all just some terrible glowstick/balloon mishap. I’m sure it can all be sorted out. Perhaps by those helpful people in the background who are either, er, looking on or walking away. It’s not clear which. Dancing in a ring? Holding an orgy? Anyone?
January 13th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Haven’t you ever met up in a field for a good ole barn viewing?
January 13th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
I believe that to be an elongated and lumpy-shaped tumour, growing out of the girl’s left arm. All together now: eeeeeew!
January 14th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Don’t be ridiculous . . . it’s clearly growing out of her right arm.
January 14th, 2010 at 10:12 am
You guys, if only you knew the truth.
It’s actually a laser restraint collar with a guide orb.
January 14th, 2010 at 10:31 am
or maybe she’s the one growing out of it! *shock*
January 14th, 2010 at 11:51 am
@csa Genius!
Now the cover makes sense.
December 15th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
See, kids? That’s what happens to your eyes if you play with lasers.
August 25th, 2011 at 7:37 pm
You know, having read the book, I can make a guess at what she’s doing. She’s probably gathering moonlight as a power source for psychic activity–what The People unfortunately call “plaiting the twishers.” This would make a lot more sense if the moon was not red (it isn’t in the book), if the moonbeam looked like a moonbeam and not a laser beam, and if the kid didn’t look like she’d just been possessed by Lilith from SPN.
March 24th, 2012 at 1:54 am
Despite having the series recommended by a friend, this cover is why I never read the books. I want to read about evil Amish with glowing eyes?…ummm…no.
March 24th, 2012 at 12:06 pm
It’s really a shame about the horrible covers, because Zenna Henderson’s People stories really are good and thougtful and well worth the reading.
I kept away from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books for nearly twenty years because of the atrocious covers of the first volumes. It was a mistake.
Don’t let bad cover art ruin a great book for you.
January 21st, 2013 at 7:27 pm
They’re not evil, they’re rather sickeningly good, actually, although I can’t say much for what she shows them doing to their kids by way of discipline.
December 31st, 2015 at 4:39 pm
FORCE AWAKENS SPOILERS!
January 20th, 2017 at 6:16 am
This is a terrible cover to a nice book. Very pastoral and gentle and such. At no time was there a big red ball/moon with a laser.
The movie is not a whole lot better than this — gentle pastoral doesn’t mix well with Shatner’s… inimitable style. But at least there weren’t red glowy things.