Abducted
It's too bad this isn't coming out until October, because I can't think of a better beach read.
My immediate reaction to this cover was that it was too predictable, but I've changed my mind. I'm not an alien or UFO freak, but I do know that the issue of why "abductees" always describe aliens in almost exactly the same way produces two opinions:
1) Abduction must be real: why else would everybody describe the same thing?
2) Abduction isn't real, and the fact that people describe the same thing is merely a cultural production. See X-Files, Close Encounters, etc.
Either way, because I'm guessing that the two questions above are discussed in this book, the archetypal alien works.
4 comments:
The picture is just creepy enough to work; it's the color that's all wrong.
Kitty's comment is a little better here, but her lack of a better color suggestion is all wrong.
I'm thinking of the darkest color a midnight blue with variations of that, but that's so cliche. I'd have to play around with the colors.
I think the hand is very lame and unreal. It maybe should not be there.
I would have had some scary silhouette of a mysterious probing instrument. That wouild have been scary. The colour does not have to be dark to be creepy but Green for Go is a bit nice. With modern retouching a cool aqua based kaleidescopic feel might work.
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