Covers for Elusive Salvation and Live by the Code released
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That cover and the blurb gives the impression of it being a war novel and lots of epic ship to ship battles. Given who has written it, I doubt that'll happen.
Doug Drexler consulted me about the cover some months ago, and we picked out a scene from the novel that would make for a good cover. This is along the lines we discussed, although I didn't expect it would be this close-up. But I'm glad to have a cover emphasizing one of Starfleet's Andorian ships, as a companion to the Tower of Babel cover showcasing Endeavour and Pioneer.
Nice! Both are great covers.
You might be surprised. The main issue I have with combat or war stories is that I don't like writing scenes where the good guys kill people. But that's part of why I wanted to do a 2-book arc featuring a robotic enemy, so that wouldn't be an issue. And with a Klingon civil war brewing, there's more than one faction that doesn't really qualify as good guys.
Let's just say that, in the course of writing this book, I had a lot of conversations with Keith DeCandido about The Klingon Art of War and related subjects.
Few minor things about the Andorian ship:
1) It looks like there's a piece of a Klingon BOP sticking out from under it. It's right about in the middle of the page. What is this thing? Is it a piece of debris that managed to get stuck in the hull? (I'm just hazarding a guess that this is the underside of the ship, as in ENT - when this class first appeared - we never saw anything like this on TOP of it.)
2) The portside wing seems to be missing. It's supposed to be right where "CODE" is on the page.
1) It looks like there's a piece of a Klingon BOP sticking out from under it. It's right about in the middle of the page. What is this thing? Is it a piece of debris that managed to get stuck in the hull? (I'm just hazarding a guess that this is the underside of the ship, as in ENT - when this class first appeared - we never saw anything like this on TOP of it.)
2) The portside wing seems to be missing. It's supposed to be right where "CODE" is on the page.
Wow, those are two of my favorite covers I've seen in a while.
The ES one almost looks a little retro.
I love that LBtC focuses on non-Starfleet ships. Most of the ship covers like that tend to just be that series' hero ship, so it's nice to get something a little bit different this time.
The ES one almost looks a little retro.
I love that LBtC focuses on non-Starfleet ships. Most of the ship covers like that tend to just be that series' hero ship, so it's nice to get something a little bit different this time.
I like both of these covers.
The blurb for Elusive Salvation definitely sold me on that one.
The Enterprise novel was already a guaranteed buy -- based on the quality of the previous volumes in that series by Christopher.
I wonder: is that Andorian ship meant to be same ship from the books whose name means "Enterprise" in the Andorian language? (The actual ship's name escapes me, at the moment)
The blurb for Elusive Salvation definitely sold me on that one.
The Enterprise novel was already a guaranteed buy -- based on the quality of the previous volumes in that series by Christopher.
I wonder: is that Andorian ship meant to be same ship from the books whose name means "Enterprise" in the Andorian language? (The actual ship's name escapes me, at the moment)
Not sure what you mean. There is an entire Klingon scout (of the type used by Laneth in "Divergence," I think) in front of the Andorian cruiser around the middle of the page, but no fragment sticking out from under/behind it.
It's not missing. The wings are angled rather than straight. Designer John Eaves was inspired by the angled wings of a WWII seaplane. And a portion of that wing seems to be behind the clouds, although that's taking a bit of poetic license with the scene.
Ahh, but who says this isn't a hero ship?
The name is Vol'Rala. And hey, that would be a good ship to put on the cover of a novel in the Star Trek: Enterprise line, wouldn't it...?
See where the mini-explosion is, on the left edge, about halfway up? The green thing (sticking out from under the Andorian ship's hull) is to the right of that.
Look further right -- there are some bodies of water on the planet below that have a sort of greenish-brown tinge, some sort of silty river delta or something. I suppose that bit of green on the left is the edge of that body of water.
@Christopher: never mind, I see it now. You're right, it is a Klingon ship. I couldn't see its other wing, so I thought it was a bit that was attached to the bottom of the Andorian ship.
I believe Uncertain Logic had a couple examples of registrations along the lines of "NCC-AGC-##" or something like that.
I suggested to Doug that he reskin (or whatever) the cruiser model in Starfleet colors, but I guess he chose not to. Then again, any hull markings would probably be in Andorii script anyway.
And Kumari-class ships have a registry of the form AGC-7-##, with AGC standing for "Andorian Guard Cruiser" (or "Andorian Guard Courier" for the Ilthirin class, which is AGC-11-##). For instance, Vol'Rala is AGC-7-10.
