The folks @ TrekWeb have posted the German covers for the Typhon Pact novels. Very nice. I can't post pics from my phone but there is the link: http://trekweb.com/articles/2013/01...ers-for-Entire-Typhon-Pact-Novel-Series.shtml
Weird -- while Nullsummenspiel is a literal translation of Zero Sum Game, the others have just taken one word from each title -- Feuer (Fire) for Seize the Fire, Bestien (Beasts) for Rough Beasts of Empire, and Zweitracht (Disharmony) for Paths of Disharmony.
Perhaps the literal Translations would have been too long to look good on the Cover: Das Feuer ergreifen Wilde Bestien des Imperiums Pfade der Zwietracht Especially the third sounds a bit strange in German, more like a Horror-B-Movie title. And of the course, lesser text means you can enjoy more of that beautiful background-picture.
I like how the artists for Paths of Disharmony moved Shar's antennae forward to reflect their placement on the Andorians from Enterprise, as opposed to in the back of the head as they were in the original version of that image on Demons of Air and Darkness's cover.
Who is the small kid with dreads and what appears to be a penis coming out of her head suppose to be?
That's not a small kid, it's Shar, the Andorian science officer who was a featured character in the DS9 Relaunch and reappeared in Paths of Disharmony.
Already fixed (or maybe the tetraptych just had an old version?): http://www.thetrekcollective.com/2013/01/cross-cult-updates-typhon-pact-covers.html
Fear not, they've updated the Zero Sum Game one again, with a new portrait of Ezri, and corrected collars:
The editor at Pocket Books would commission and approve US cover art. He must work to strict budgets for cover art, and these have decreased since the days of fully-painted covers. So that's Ed S. (And the head of Marketing, I presume.) There would also be input and approval from John Van Citters' team at CBS Consumer Products. The authors may or may not get consulted, on a case-by-case basis. Some authors get more input as to preferences for cover art than others. The German publisher is a much smaller concern, although CBS Consumer Products would still have to approve the art.