#nicholas fisk

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Hmmm, I do wonder if the cover art for Nicholas Fisk's 1971 novel, "Trillions" about a human kid who makes a deep psychic connection with the strange and minute alien crystals which have fallen from the sky across Earth, might have impacted how Alan Davis defined the look of Douglock in 1986

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Catfang by Peter Elson Cover for book by: Nicholas Fisk

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Grinny CBS Storybreak

Grinny CBS Storybreak.

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Trillions by Nicholas Fisk (1971)

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this was an odd book

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I’d forgotten all about this book until I just read the obituary of the author Nicholas Fisk, who has passed away aged 93

A rain of tiny crystals falls on earth, seemingly harmless, but their odd shape and mobility means they can interact with each other to combine into new forms, and a local kid forms an unusual bond with their sort-of-hive-mind.... (at least that’s how I remember it)

Given it came out in 1971, I do wonder if my fondness for the “normal human fusing with shapeshifting alien” might have had it’s debut here..

Also recommended by the same authoer “Grinny” (After reading it ”You remember me!” as a phrase will linger in the saem way that “Are you my mummy?” does with Doctor Who fans)

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Once upon a time this young science fiction reader ran across a book that picked me up, set me in free fall and then set me down again with a lot to chew over. It was a book and title I never forg…

Nicholas Fisk

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C-3PO got ripped.

Buy it HERE.