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April 21st, 2010 at 10:08 am
Guess this is a strange cover. The book itself isn’t that bad, till you read the tag line. It sounds like all that Harry Potter fan fiction CSA writes!
April 21st, 2010 at 10:11 am
Reminds me of an Olaf Stapledon novel, actually.
April 21st, 2010 at 10:52 am
That’s one of the Beacon Books line, which were “spiced up” editions of sf novels by some well-known names. I wrote a blog post on them here.
April 21st, 2010 at 11:13 am
That’s a fairly, um, phallic-looking lighthouse logo, in the bottom right hand corner.
April 21st, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Thats an awesomely creepy cover. Good lord you would get strange looks reading it on the train. I’d pick RX for Chaos over that cover any day.
hmmm thats given me an idea… RX slash Harry Potter fiction….
@adam i think the phallic logo is entirely justified given the “erotic” nature of the book, they should have gone all out and just drew a penis in my opinion.
April 21st, 2010 at 10:49 pm
Not only does he want her body… he wants her grammar too!
April 22nd, 2010 at 3:55 am
Man, is this guy supposed to be the hero or the villain? I just don’t know anymore.
Also, take note of the woman’s right arm (on our left). Straightened out, it would barely reach to her hip. Is this a plot point? Does she have a birth defect? Or just the artist’s terrible grasp of anatomy? You decide.
April 22nd, 2010 at 6:32 am
That must be the same guy who dances with the life size doll strapped to his shoes at the Times Square subway station.
April 22nd, 2010 at 11:57 am
If the lighthouse became a penis, would it still have the glowing end? That, surely, would symbolise perfectly how it would feel to be one man alone who has any woman — every woman — in his power.
April 22nd, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Because you’d feel that you had E.T.’s penis? I’m not sure I’m following you.
April 22nd, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Okay, does “Deviate” have a different meaning in the UK than it does here in the hicklands of the US of A? Because here, it means to veer off a path, where as DEVIANT means someone who violates social norms in an icky kind of way…
Maybe they are about to deviate from that street into a McDonalds or something?
April 22nd, 2010 at 3:55 pm
>Adam: The head of it aglow with symbolic virility. Or rubbed-raw soreness. Or indeed both.
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:48 pm
>James. You’re turning me on, a little bit.
April 24th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Take the GALAXY logo off, and there’s absolutely nothing that indicates it’s a SF novel! (Anyone else want to bet this cover saw print at least once before as a pulp thriller/soft porn book?)
>robinjn: “Deviate” (as a noun) and “deviant” were pretty much interchangeable terms at that time in the US.
April 30th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Hey I have that book. my cover is in better condition
February 4th, 2014 at 1:30 pm
“..she was handing the boy over to brownlow on the bridge…she won’t peach on no-one no more..”
February 4th, 2014 at 7:51 pm
THE DEVIATES
By Raymond F. Jones
One man alone had any woman — every woman — in his power! And HE did not feel the need to read books like these.
February 4th, 2014 at 8:43 pm
Two sigma alone had most women–sixty-eight-point-two per cent of women–in its power!
February 5th, 2014 at 9:23 am
One woman alone had any man — every man — in her power! And STILL she complained to her friends what a drag men are.
December 6th, 2015 at 1:34 am
The Deviates, Kerning’s In a Mess
One man alone had any font–every font–in his power!
December 7th, 2015 at 7:39 am
One man alone had any woman — every woman — in his power!
But who is this OTHER creep on the cover, who’s forcing himself on that girl who’s obviously not into him? Whoever that deviate is, he doesn’t have all women in his power. Arrest him. And search his house for evidence.
December 7th, 2015 at 9:50 am
One man alone couldn’t stay on topic for even a whole minute!
December 7th, 2015 at 10:23 am
One man alone had any woman — every woman — in his power!
The Rapist
December 7th, 2015 at 2:28 pm
Therapist?
December 9th, 2015 at 1:21 pm
@B. Chiclitz: I think my one-word response didn’t survive the moderator because the pronunciation wasn’t obvious.
May 11th, 2024 at 5:11 pm
Back cover. If Lee and Kirby? didn’t read this before developing the original X-Men I’ll be shocked.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/325471871741
May 12th, 2024 at 2:07 am
@fred: Minus the whole rapey harem part, of course.
Does he have every woman in his power, metaphorically because he’s
1) the one who determines who they get to have babies with (no spoiler: him, and isn’t that going to lead to massive inbreeding?)
2) physically because he’s a power-mad rapey harem guy
3) physically because the girls all have the hots for him (doesn’t look like it here!) 4) aren’t the lesbians unaffected if it’s #3?
May 12th, 2024 at 2:36 am
Since the ebay cover went away, here’s a precis from Goodreads:
When human genes go wild, reproduction can no longer be left to chance – and it is Robert Wellton, Chief of the Genetics Bureau, the most feared and hated man in the world, who decides who will mate with whom.But nobody can tell Wellton whom to mate with! He alone knows that the Genetics Program is collapsing, for fewer Normals are found each yer – and his father, who had been Genetics Chief before him, had discovered that not all Deviates are nature’s failures. Some are telepathic and long-lived – like Robert Wellton himself.Thus is born the plan that Adam Wellton conceived and that Robert Wellton carries on – the creation of a Secret People. Born of Normal mothers, they are all Wellton’s sons and daughters, bearing his improved genes – living hidden in a colony in the Canadian wilderness, protected from the hate and jealousy of civilization by Wellton, who stays in telepathic touch with them.But disaster strikes when a bitter powerful committee, suspecting the existence of concealed Deviates, begins a relentless search for them. Wellton knows there can be only one result – he Secret People will be hunted down and wiped out!
@GSS ex-noob: the existence of LBTQ people is often forgotten in SF stories. I did wonder how gay and ace men would be affected by The Screwfly Solution.
May 12th, 2024 at 12:41 pm
@GSSxN #27
….or because
5) he’s hacked all the internets and can dox them at will?
6) he’s cornered the market in Nutella?
7) he’s cloned an army of Three Stooges and will drown them all in schtick if they don’t submit?
I’m baffled too. All I know is: that is one creepy cover.
May 12th, 2024 at 8:02 pm
@Bruce: that’s appalling. “But nobody can tell Welton whom to mate with!”
I was always told that you shouldn’t really start a sentence with “But” unless it’s “But for…”; it should be “with whom to mate” if you’re going to pretend to be grammatical and ending with an excalamation mark is only really acceptable if it’s reported speech.
I hope that was from Goodreads and not a professional blurb-writer in the 50s.
May 12th, 2024 at 10:27 pm
@Bruce: Queer people simply didn’t exist in SF before a certain date. Not much in mainstream fiction either. There were sometimes lesbians in pulps, but 99.9% of those were written by/for straight guys for their “hurr hurr” amusement.
Tiptree’s a special case — she had a career usual for a man (thus the pseudonym easily stood for a long time), and was likely a lesbian so deep in the closet she found a light post and a fawn.
@Bruce: The eBay photos are still there, scroll down. It reveals this was originally titled “The Secret People”, which isn’t at all sexy.
@Tat: The blurb, you will be sad to hear, is entirely the back cover text.
May 13th, 2024 at 4:52 am
@Tat (#30):
But there, for the grace of GSS, go I?
May 13th, 2024 at 1:04 pm
@Tat: I know you’re right. But, I have such an urge to use the word ‘pedanticness’ in my comment to see what happens.