I picked this book up because it has an amazing cover by Don Maitz, which you can see here on his website. I love the look of older SF book covers, which put to shame the cleanly designed lines of more modern books.
Sadly, the plot wasn’t great – one of those confusing 1970s plots which are just a little bit too clever. It tells the story of two worlds, one always in daylight, one always shrouded in night, but unlike Zelazny’s Jack of Shadows (which uses the same day/night world divide) it’s not something I would pick up again. While it’s interesting to see the effect of the great countercultural boom on writers, sometimes (like Delauny’s Dhalgren) it makes for an unreadable mess.
