Jan 242010
I have been looking for a science fiction book that I once saw when I was younger, but I don’t know the title or author. All I remember was the cover art, which had lots of blues and which showed a very large spaceship crashed on an icy planet, with lots of people around it. The book was rather long, I’d say about 400-600 pages, and seemed like it was published in the 60s or 70s, maybe in the 80s. (I was very young when I saw it, so my recollection of it might not be perfectly accurate.) I know this isn’t very descriptive, but if anybody knows of any book that might be this one, please answer. I would really love to find out what that book was that I saw so long ago.
I don’t know, but if no one answers, you might want to try the following link to a discussion board specifically for people who can’t remember the names of books. There are a lot of people there who seem to know everything about books.
http://forums.abebooks.com/abesleuthcom
This is a long shot and I’m probably wrong, but Arthur C. Clarke wrote a series of books starting with 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he wrote in the 1960s. One of the books, I think it was the second in the series, 2010: Odyssey Two, had a plot which included a Chinese expedition landing on the sea ice of Europa. The lights attract an ocean creature which crashes up through the ice from the depths below, knocks over the spacecraft and the crew all perish.If you’ve read the book before it will all come back to you. Like all Clark’s other work it’s an excellent story.
Could it have been “Time Enough for Love” by Robert Heinlein? That one has been released in lots of editions, but the one I have is blue with a spaceship crashed… it has just two figures on it, though.