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findthatbookI remember reading this book when I was at school (I pretty much lived in the library and the sci-fi section was my idea of heaven <3) so it would have been 1985-ish through to 2000-ish?
But literally the only thing I can remember is the book cover *facepalm*
I’m pretty sure it was a reddish or pinkish colour (but honestly, don’t take that as gospel, I could be mis-remembering it, I was only a teen at the time).
The cover had a huge galaxy like Andromeda or the Milky Way galaxy in the sky of a planet (the pov was from the planet looking at the galaxy in the sky) and it was never truly night because the galaxy was so bright all the time. I remember a character commenting on how it was never fully dark because the galaxy was so bright.
It was either a hardcover, or large library edition paperback. I feel like it was a well known sci-fi author of that time but can’t remember a name.
It looked sort like the style of this book cover…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60641307-andromeda
…with a full galaxy in the sky of a planet, but it was more like daytime, and more of an 80’s-90’s art style, and the galaxy was larger in the planets sky, also the planet had atmosphere, no spacesuits needed.
If this book cover is familiar to anyone, please help me find it again?
But literally the only thing I can remember is the book cover *facepalm*
I’m pretty sure it was a reddish or pinkish colour (but honestly, don’t take that as gospel, I could be mis-remembering it, I was only a teen at the time).
The cover had a huge galaxy like Andromeda or the Milky Way galaxy in the sky of a planet (the pov was from the planet looking at the galaxy in the sky) and it was never truly night because the galaxy was so bright all the time. I remember a character commenting on how it was never fully dark because the galaxy was so bright.
It was either a hardcover, or large library edition paperback. I feel like it was a well known sci-fi author of that time but can’t remember a name.
It looked sort like the style of this book cover…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60641307-andromeda
…with a full galaxy in the sky of a planet, but it was more like daytime, and more of an 80’s-90’s art style, and the galaxy was larger in the planets sky, also the planet had atmosphere, no spacesuits needed.
If this book cover is familiar to anyone, please help me find it again?
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Date: November 27th, 2023 20:11 (UTC)no subject
Date: November 28th, 2023 00:59 (UTC)I have fixed it now so it should go to the book it was supposed to.
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Date: November 29th, 2023 06:03 (UTC)This cover seems to match and the planet not ever being dark is a fairly large part of the story.
Publication date would have been 1990.
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Date: November 29th, 2023 07:15 (UTC)Nightfall is the story I was thinking of too, but couldn't remember the name of. If that isn't the right cover, Librarything has a page of possible covers
I suspect there are some others, but I'm away from my library at the moment.
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Date: November 29th, 2023 08:53 (UTC)It’s not really a galaxy in the cover art, it’s a planet, so while the description sort of matches, the cover art definitely doesn’t *sigh*
Honestly, I’m starting to doubt my own memory with this book 🤦♀️ I know I took a photocopy of the cover, I might try and find it over the weekend 🤷♀️
Edit: I just realised half the book covers aren’t showing up for me, I’ll have another go on the PC tomorrow 👍
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Date: December 7th, 2023 03:26 (UTC)If you want to ask it yourself, the link is
https://c.ai/c/WLcau8HDbkAPlnU9GPZvLVQ4QaWMhktCmgGFgG2nb5c