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The Twilight of Briareus
The Twilight of Briareus | Richard Cowper
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On the murky outskirts of our solar system, a lonely star has exploded, emitting monstrous doses of radiation . . . The year is 1983. The exploding star Briareus Delta, 132 light years away, provokes only mild interest from planet Earth. Suddenly, appalling tornadoes and storms ravage the cities and countryside, leaving death and desolation in their wake. Then mankind realises another terrifying side-effect - every adult in the world has been rendered infertile. Schoolteacher Calvin Johnson discovers he is one of the select few to have acquired strange psychic powers. Termed 'Zetas', these people experience mental flashes of the future - a future of freezing isolation, snow-swept landscapes and bleak, ice-bound cities. A second ice-age is imminent as man faces the ultimate horror . . . extinction.
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The Twilight of Briareus | Richard Cowper
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(1975) The nearby star Briareus Delta goes supernova, after which humanity becomes barren and a few develop psychic gifts. One crackpot conjectures that Earth has been invaded by Briareans. It's a pretty good piece of seventies science fiction, with trippy ideas about group consciousness, free love, and the soul. Dated but interesting.

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OMG OMG.. So this an alternate to the #uglycover of the SAME BOOK i posted about earlier (and just blogged http://scrappymags.com/2016/09/08/wtf-book-covers/) and I found this and mine is there!! http://www.oddee.com/item_97274.aspx

BookNotes Wow. 8y
Hooked_on_books That is soooo bad. 8y
britt_brooke 😱 8y
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Alfoster Yikes! I may never read again! 8y
LeahBergen That baby has creepy adult-like haunches. 😳 8y
PenguinInFlight That is super creepy! LOL. 8y
PurpleyPumpkin Wow, this is pretty bad. Loved your related blog post BTW. 😂 8y
DiruVamp Wow that is creepy!! 8y
SecretLivesOfFictionLovers I'm not quite sure which is more disturbing lol! How the heck did the publishers let those covers fly?! 8y
Megabooks That is just sick/weird. I can't unsee it! 😱😱 8y
aeeklund What the actual hell? 8y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa That's really bad! 8y
RealLifeReading No no no 8y
Jennick2004 Umm wtf were they thinking?! 8y
LauraBrook BURN IT, BURN IT IN A RAGING FIRE!!!! 8y
Coleen They're both awful. You win. Hands down. 8y
ScrappyMags @PurpleyPumpkin so you're the one person who reads my blog! Lol! Thx!! 👍🏼 8y
Amandajoy I think you win the ugly cover contest. And now I will have nightmares. 8y
ScrappyMags @Amandajoy lol omg me too. I wanted to forget this book and a simple google of "floating baby head book cover" brought me right back to the horror of my youth 8y
BookishFeminist 😂😂 this just made me say WTF out loud! 8y
SaraFair Creature from the Black Lagoon is giving cookies to the Coppertone baby? 8y
ScrappyMags @SaraFair apparently yes?? Lol!! 😂😂😂 8y
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ScrappyMags
The Twilight of Briareus | Richard Cowper
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Ok so I kinda cheated to find this pic, but I remember my brother having this in a box of free books and it SCARED THE SHIT OUTTA ME!!!! Seriously, who goes Hmmm... Floating dismembered baby heads, now THAT is a great book cover??? #uglycovers

Coleen 😳 8y
Merethebookgal 😳😦😧 8y
ScrappyMags Although I think I have a floating pic of me from school in the 80s with Halle's Comet... 8y
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ScrappyMags Oh and the funny part.. To find the book I had to google "book with baby head" and yup... There it was. I'll be in the fetal position somewhere... 8y
Zelma That is the stuff of nightmares. 😱 8y
Zelma @ScrappyMags that is amazing! We may need to see this school pic for proof. 😉 8y
britt_brooke 😳😱 8y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled That is a GEM. Id keep it on the shelf face down. 8y
Sue This is definitely the #uglycovers winner. 😨 8y
Mimi28 That IS creepy (but I like it), lol 8y
BookishTrish You have won #uglycovers 8y
ApoptyGina69 Yikes!!! Good job freaking us all out! 😶😱 8y
[DELETED] 3323341091 that is horrifyingly fantastic. 8y
KVanRead Holy carp that's horrifying!😱 8y
sprainedbrain We have a winner! 8y
PenguinInFlight Yikes. 😨 8y
SusanInTiburon 🏆🏆🏆 8y
MrBook 😳😱 8y
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