Conscience Place
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Author:
Joyce Thompson
Year: 1984
Jacket design and illustration: Fred Marcellino
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Edition: First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385188647
Comments:
The Place is a colony for the deformed offspring of nuclear accident victims. But it flourishes peacefully. The events in this book are hair-raising, but Fred chose to depict a moment of calm before the turmoil set in.
Of the covers of all the editions, this is the slyest and most subtle. The sixth finger tickles the brain but doesn’t shout WEIRD–it just makes the central nervous system go, Huh?