Descriptions for CLB's TOS: The Face of the Unknown and DTI: Time Lock
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I just added preliminary discussion of Time Lock to my blog; the Collectors page has now become the DTI e-Novellas page. Spoiler notes will be added sometime after the novella's release.
It reminds me of Dave Bowman's trip through space at the end of 2001.
My God! It's full of STARS!
Yeah, the release kind of took me by surprise -- I was told to expect some kind of formal debut, but instead it just suddenly showed up on Amazon and such. Anyway, it is a really cool cover.
Ooh, very nice.
Reposting from my blog:
I quite like this cover. It’s got nice vivid colors, it’s a dynamic scene, and I like the menacing Scary Balok Puppet head looming over the scene (and tying in nicely with the “Face” in the title). The swarm of angular red ships attacking the Enterprise is what really sells it, I think, adding color and energy and novelty to the scene; take them away and it would just look like a poster for “The Corbomite Maneuver.” It’s interesting how one element can make the difference like that.
Also, I just realized that the dominant colors on the cover are gold, blue, and red, the three TOS uniform colors (although the “gold” was actually more an avocado green that looked gold under stage lights, but anyway). How appropriate for the closing book of TOS’s 50th-anniversary year (it’s technically the January 2017 book, but its official street date is December 27, and a publishing year is considered to run from February to January).
I quite like this cover. It’s got nice vivid colors, it’s a dynamic scene, and I like the menacing Scary Balok Puppet head looming over the scene (and tying in nicely with the “Face” in the title). The swarm of angular red ships attacking the Enterprise is what really sells it, I think, adding color and energy and novelty to the scene; take them away and it would just look like a poster for “The Corbomite Maneuver.” It’s interesting how one element can make the difference like that.
Also, I just realized that the dominant colors on the cover are gold, blue, and red, the three TOS uniform colors (although the “gold” was actually more an avocado green that looked gold under stage lights, but anyway). How appropriate for the closing book of TOS’s 50th-anniversary year (it’s technically the January 2017 book, but its official street date is December 27, and a publishing year is considered to run from February to January).
I like the usage of that scary mask, it's an iconic face. I saw it for years in all the repeats ever shown since the 1980's, which somehow always seemed to omit the episode it actually appears in. It was always this mysterious, frightening face pictured in the end credits of many other episodes, without a context. I thought it was a real alien from an episode that I always seemed to miss. It was only several years later when I collected the series on DVD that I actually finally saw The Corbomite Maneuver (and many others that never seems to play in any re-runs), and understood the context. Nevertheless, as I say, that face is a very memorable, classic image; and it's exactly the right image to go with a novel that explores what the Corbomite episode introduced. I'm really looking forward to this one.
Isn't it time for a full discussion/spoiler-thread for The Face of the Unknown?
Just picked up Christopher's new book about 25 minutes ago; will likely be settling down to start on it tonight. Already read the first 2-3 pages, and quite liked the opening moments
Looking forward to seeing where this leads.
Just picked up Christopher's new book about 25 minutes ago; will likely be settling down to start on it tonight. Already read the first 2-3 pages, and quite liked the opening moments
with the Enterprise under attack from an unknown enemy.
Done: http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/tos-...y-christopher-l-bennett-review-thread.285563/
Nobody stops you from starting one yourself, though, if you have the feeling it's time to have one and nobody has started one yet.
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