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Vintage Technology: Sci-Fi Vintage Cover Art: Lucinda Cowell
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Artist: | Lucinda Cowell |
Artist Link: |
None known | |
| Book details: | Destiny Doll by Clifford D. Simak. Originally copyright 1972 Clifford D. Simak, first published in Great Britain in 1972. | |
| This edition: | Published in this edition in 1973 by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1 Tavistock Chambers, Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2SG, UK. Printed in Great Britain by C. Nicholls & Company Ltd. ISBN 028398126X. Cat. No. P98126. | |
| Date: | 1973 | |
| Price: | UK £0.40, Cyprus 450 mils, Gibraltar 45p, Malta 45c, Australia $1.25, New Zealand $1.40, Spain Pts 105, Trinidad $2.40. | |
| Themes: | Quest, interstellar exploration, religion, traps, icons, robots, space travel, other plains of existence, trees, knowledge, blindness, monks, hunters, mythical creatures. | |
| Comments: | A nice example of a story-related image. This is a wrap-around cover, showing the alien landscape and one of the "icons". Only two problems: this planet did not have any clouds, and where are the trees? | |
| Contents: | Complete novel | |
| My cover rating: | ★★★☆☆ Suitably strange image for a borderline fantasy novel. | |
