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Trying to identify a 1980s/1990s SF book
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juliael71
Posted 2014-05-26 11:11 PM (#7828)
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I'm hitting a brick wall with all my resources and have taken to randomly looking through lists of covers to figure out this mystery. I'm hoping someone else remembers it instead.

The book was definitely science fiction the mid-late 1980s-early 1990s. Mass market paperback. Probably futuristic/space opera leaning if I remember correctly.

What I remember is the cover had a starfield with a pair of eyes peering out in the background. Dealt with a pair of aliens -- one may or may not have destroyed a world with their power? Very Dark Phoenix-y in retrospect.

Any ideas?
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DrNefario
Posted 2014-05-27 7:49 AM (#7835 - in reply to #7828)
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Location: UK		I'm not even sure this is the book I mean, but maybe Hunter of Worlds by CJ Cherryh?
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Posted 2014-05-27 8:36 AM (#7837 - in reply to #7835)
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DrNefario - 2014-05-27 7:49 AM I'm not even sure this is the book I mean, but maybe Hunter of Worlds by CJ Cherryh?

We have Hunter of Worlds but with a different cover.  Here's an alternate cover that fits your description.  Does the synopsis we have ring any bells?

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juliael71
Posted 2014-05-27 8:50 AM (#7838 - in reply to #7837)
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No, it's not that one. I do remember it being by not an author I was immediately familiar with at the time so no CJ Cherryh, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mercedes Lackey or Anne McCaffrey.
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daxxh
Posted 2014-05-28 2:18 PM (#7847 - in reply to #7838)
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Location: Great Lakes, USA		Mindbridge by Joe Haldeman?

http://www.amazon.com/Mindbridge-Joe-Haldeman/dp/0380016893/ref=sr_...
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juliael71
Posted 2014-05-28 2:28 PM (#7848 - in reply to #7847)
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Mindbridge isn't it, but closer definitely. I think the cover only showed the eyes, no face outline. I'm probably remembering the plot badly.
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justifiedsinner
Posted 2014-05-28 5:14 PM (#7850 - in reply to #7828)
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Not the Mote In God's Eye by any chance?
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DrNefario
Posted 2014-05-29 12:45 PM (#7859 - in reply to #7828)
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Location: UK		Some early editions of Julian May's Galactic Milieu series have a kind of eyes in the sky thing going on. I haven't read the series myself, so I have no idea if that's even on the right lines.

I have a memory of an image like the one you describe, and I just can't think what it was. It might even have been a video game. I have a feeling it was something I didn't ever have, myself, but saw a lot. I suddenly thought it might have been those Julian May books, so I did a quick search, and it wasn't, but they were kind of close.
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juliael71
Posted 2014-05-30 8:32 PM (#7861 - in reply to #7859)
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Through a long and arduous process, I found the book. It was Ann Maxwell's Timeshadow Rider published in 1986.
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