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Click for full imageArt Direction: Hey does your son still look like one of those no job free loading poetry reading jazz artists? Great! So does mine and they’ll make the perfect demonic children. We just layer it somehow to give that… demony feel.
Published 1966
(Average: 6.97 out of 10)
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(9.25 out of 10)
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July 26th, 2011 at 9:04 am
This is exactly what it’s like if you watch Napoleon Dynamite after taking acid.
July 26th, 2011 at 9:46 am
Is it a good idea to put your target audience on the cover then call them “A fiendish race of demonic children”? Feelings could be hurt. Or maybe they’d think it was cool?
July 26th, 2011 at 1:57 pm
You can tell these boys are out of control – the top buttons of their shirts are unbuttoned!
July 26th, 2011 at 3:15 pm
And all those who doubted my science of linking daemons to radiation…. who’s laughing now?!?
July 26th, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Anything that could double as an early Black Sabbath album cover, words and all, deserves a 10.
July 26th, 2011 at 8:16 pm
The Red Sunburst has some good things on it, sure; but I prefer the Blue Sunburst. That has their more mature hits.
July 27th, 2011 at 2:50 pm
“A science fiction classic of tomorrow”, eh? There’s a prediction that didn’t come true.
July 27th, 2011 at 5:56 pm
What’s a runaway nuclear explosion? Is it an explosion that’s packed up its things and gone off in a sulk with its parents?
July 28th, 2011 at 3:45 am
It’s what people shout when they see one:
“Run away! Nuclear explosion!!”
July 28th, 2011 at 2:13 pm
So, um, Midwich Cuckoos for those who really really miss the 1960s, then?
July 29th, 2011 at 9:34 pm
So THAT is how Bill Gates got his start.
August 1st, 2011 at 6:29 am
Where can I get that sunburst font? Groovy man.
August 2nd, 2011 at 12:55 am
You know it’s bad when the book company sells advertisement space for themselves on a cover.
August 15th, 2011 at 8:24 pm
Does anyone have a pair of 3D glasses?
September 7th, 2011 at 11:33 am
Whoa! When you put on 3D-glasses, you can read the hidden message “Rick Perry wears a wig”!
February 25th, 2012 at 1:50 pm
This is actually a very good book under that atrocious and misleading cover (my copy of it, from a few years later, has a psychedelic drug-trip sort of cover, just as bad).
It’s a girl-centered young-adult novel!!.
The hero is an adolescent girl orphan who is preturnaturally unnoticeable in a town that’s been fenced around and hushed up by the government for decades because of a nuclear accident which also produced telepathic, sociopathic children who are kept drugged and under lock and key. The girl meets a telepathic good guy working for the government who recruits her because psychics can’t read her. There’s a lot of interesting speculation about consequences and social tensions.
It’s a very good piece of young-adult science fiction.
February 25th, 2012 at 6:11 pm
Oh, and given that this Canadian literary award was named after this very book:
http://www.sunburstaward.org/
I’d say that yes, it is “a science fiction classic of tomorrow!”
October 30th, 2020 at 9:43 am
Because Halloween is cancelled this year, nobody’s bothering with costumes.
October 30th, 2020 at 2:23 pm
Give them funky uniforms and sunglasses and throw them into Godzilla vs Kong as the comic relief.
October 30th, 2020 at 4:06 pm
Both fiendish and demonic. Well that’s sold it for me. I wouldn’t have been interested if they had merely been either fiendish or demonic.
October 30th, 2020 at 6:34 pm
So, a boring _and_ lazy cover? That’s some quality marketing for you.
October 31st, 2020 at 7:46 am
They look like the nerd group at school. Are their asthma inhalers fiendish and demonic too?
November 2nd, 2020 at 1:56 am
@GSS ex-noob: give superpowers to a bunch of picked-upon social outcasts? What’s the worst that could happen?