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Friday, September 27, 2013

Paperback 700: The Traveler in Black / John Brunner (Ace 82210)

Paperback 700: Ace Books 82210 (PBO, 1971)

Title: The Traveler in Black 
Author: John Brunner
Cover artist: Leo & Diane Dillon

Yours for: $8

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Best things about this cover:
  • Original title: Death Gives Two Hand Jobs
  • Johnny Cash IS ... Death IN ... The Traveler in Black!
  • Those hands are spectacular, and scary as hell.

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Best things about this back cover:
  • Only the highest of people could a. make sense of this and b. think "oh man, we gotta buy this."

Page 123~

The borderland between rationality and chaos seemed to be shrinking apace as the harsh constraint of logic settled on this corner of the All.

George Washington was in a cult, and the cult was into aliens, man.

~RP

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