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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.
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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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Location: Dallas, Texas | 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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| 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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Location: Great Lakes, USA | Mindbridge by Joe Haldeman?
http://www.amazon.com/Mindbridge-Joe-Haldeman/dp/0380016893/ref=sr_... |
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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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| Not the Mote In God's Eye by any chance?
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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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| Through a long and arduous process, I found the book. It was Ann Maxwell's Timeshadow Rider published in 1986. |
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Trying to identify a 1980s/1990s SF book