Why does Germany get the cool novel covers?

[ares93]

^ some of those are actually pretty good.

 

[Defcon]

Two of the upcoming titles were retitled, too:

The Star to every Wandering
Der Leitstern des Verirrten - The Lodestar of the Lost

Rising Son
So der Sohn - Like Son (as in "Like father, like son" I suppose)

 

[Christopher]

A Singular Destiny became Einzelschicksale (which translates back as Individual Fates)

Actually that sounds to me like an attempt at a literal translation that misunderstood the intent -- interpreting "singular" to mean simply "separate, individual" rather than the intended sense of "extraordinary, remarkable."

while Precipice became Vor dem Fall (Before the Fall).

Now, that's a good example of translating the underlying sense of the title effectively.

 

[MichaelS]

Two of the upcoming titles were retitled, too:

The Star to every Wandering
Der Leitstern des Verirrten - The Lodestar of the Lost

I don't consider that an entirely new title, since it appears to originate in a more recent translation of Shakespeare's sonnet 116.

Rising Son
So der Sohn - Like Son (as in "Like father, like son" I suppose)

Right, I missed that one.

 

[Defcon]

Two of the upcoming titles were retitled, too:

The Star to every Wandering
Der Leitstern des Verirrten - The Lodestar of the Lost

I don't consider that an entirely new title, since it appears to originate in a more recent translation of Shakespeare's sonnet 116.

Ah, I haven't read the book since the original release, and not being a Shakespeare buff, I forgot it was a quote from a Shakespeare sonnet.

 

[SPCTRE]

A Singular Destiny became Einzelschicksale (which translates back as Individual Fates)

Actually that sounds to me like an attempt at a literal translation that misunderstood the intent -- interpreting "singular" to mean simply "separate, individual" rather than the intended sense of "extraordinary, remarkable."

Agreed. Not only does the title lose some of its meaning, it is almost distorted.

 

[Defcon]

^Well, the (most fitting) literal translation of Precipice would have been (Der) Abgrund, but since that's already the title of the DS9 novel Abyss I guess they went for Vor dem Fall.

ETA: That was in reply to a part of SPCTRE's post he seems to have edited out after I started my reply.

 

[MichaelS]

Ah, I haven't read the book since the original release, and not being a Shakespeare buff, I forgot it was a quote from a Shakespeare sonnet.

Neither am I, as it happens. I like watching the plays, but as for reading his poetry, that's a little too far outside my current comfort zone.

 

[SPCTRE]

ETA: That was in reply to a part of SPCTRE's post he seems to have edited out after I started my reply.

Yeah sorry about that, I realized too late that that part of my post was a complete and utter brainfart

 

[Defcon]

CC has released a (first?) cover draft for "Das höchste Maß an Hingabe", the German translation of Enterprise: Last Full Measure.

You can find it here.

 

[JD]

Nice.

 

[Defcon]

After a longer time without new cover drafts, CC has posted a draft for the cover of the German Kobayashi Maru today.

 

[Christopher]

Hoshi on cover = excellent.

 

[Bishop76]

That's a much cooler cover, but it doesn't make the book not suck, does it?

The Japanese get some really good covers too for their Star Wars novels.

 

[JD]

Yeah, I love the Japanese SW covers. I really like that KM cover too.

 

[Defcon]

And another one:

First draft for New Frontier: Ort der Stille (The Quite Place)

 

[JD]

Very cool. I think that's my favorite NF.

 

[Defcon]

Yeah, I like it too, but oddly enough it gets mostly negative comments on the Facebook post.

Too esoteric, too fantasy-like, too cheesy, etc...

 

[captcalhoun]

they're the DOGS of war, not the WOLVES...

 

[fleetcaptain]

I like both covers. That's the first good NF cover than the others.