One of my coworkers has a calendar of old book covers. I believe it was March when The Flying Eyes got the spot. It was rather…eye catching, so we looked it up. The back cover description finishes with “And then [the eyes] issued their terrible ultimatum: Explode a series of atom bombs to supply them with radiation or they would turn the world’s population into mindless robots! It gave the world two harrowing choices – self-destruction via fallout from bombs or annihilation via the sinister Flying Eyes.”
So you know we had to read it.
J. (Joan) Hunter Holly‘s book is pretty much what you’d expect from the cover, except the female character plays a smaller role. It’s pretty good if all you’re looking for is plot. Plus there’s physics. Not to spoil anything, but the world doesn’t end, and the solution to the two harrowing choices was rather more clever than, say, giving the Eyes’ spaceship a computer virus.
And totally unrelated: Today was release day for local author Robyn Bachar’s Blood, Smoke, and Mirrors. Isn’t this a gorgeous cover?
