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Bah! They're so much more than that! Welll... I guess that *is* a workable discription... They're one of those ancient bands that refuses to die. To people like me that enjoy them, this is a good thing... to most of the world, this is a bad thing. People seem to either love them passionately, or hate them with just as much vigor, (if not more.) I used to buck the trend, and feel rather indifferent toward them, but my best friend is an obsessive fan and dragged me to a concert of theirs this past fall. After I saw them live, I was converted, and definitely consider myself a fan now. There are a lot of SF themed songs, but (lyrics wise at least) I prefer the more philosophical ones, like "Armor and Sword", "The Larger Bowl", "Faithless", "Freewill", etc.
They've also gone through a whole lot of musical changes and 'eras'. From their early metal stages, through...
Well, I just noticed the wiki article that was linked states most of what I was going to say in a much clearer fashion, so I'll shut up now. They're definitely worth checking out, though maybe check which 'era' a certain album is from, to make sure it's not a music type that tends to make your ears bleed. (I can't stand their 80's New Wave stuff.) Music-wise, I prefer their earlier albums, especially 2112 and Fly by Night, but with a band like Rush, it's hard to make an objective judgement about what their best work is, because their different eras are so divergent from each other.
Ms. Beyer,
I gave up on the Voyager Relaunch after the first two books, but I'm sure like a lot of other people here, I'll be purchasing yours to give it a shot.Make us lowly Internet fans believe again!
All I can say right now is that I have read and shared many of your frustrations over these past few years and am every bit as anxious as you are to see the Voyager characters move forward into interesting and compelling adventures which suit their unique experiences and abilities.
Dave has done some amazing work in Destiny, setting me up. A lot has happened to these folks in other series since Spirit Walk, and I've taken all of it into account. There are some dangling threads to resolve, but there are also many new developments, some of which are hinted at in Destiny.
I, for one, never stopped believing in these characters and their place in Trek Lit. Hopefully you'll see why next April.
And please, call me Kirsten.
Ms. Beyer,
I gave up on the Voyager Relaunch after the first two books, but I'm sure like a lot of other people here, I'll be purchasing yours to give it a shot.
All I can say right now is that I have read and shared many of your frustrations over these past few years and am every bit as anxious as you are to see the Voyager characters move forward into interesting and compelling adventures which suit their unique experiences and abilities.
Dave has done some amazing work in Destiny, setting me up. A lot has happened to these folks in other series since Spirit Walk, and I've taken all of it into account. There are some dangling threads to resolve, but there are also many new developments, some of which are hinted at in Destiny.
I, for one, never stopped believing in these characters and their place in Trek Lit. Hopefully you'll see why next April.
And please, call me Kirsten.
Will do, Kirsten.
Very cool. This year going into next looks to be a great line-up. Can't wait.
Not if you don't like the cover.
I've never been a fan of ship-centric covers at odd angles with flashy backgrounds. Lacks imagination in my mind.
Hehe. I suppose this is the definition of IDIC as I have never liked character-centric covers. I must be one of the few people who didn't like the cover for Warpath but then my interest in Star Trek was initially derived from the ships and technology. Star Trek for me is the Enterprise, not Kirk or Picard.
I'm also glad to see the return of VGR-R. I think I shall be buying nearly all the books listed.
this doesn't effect my buying habits but i'm a fan of the person or alian landscape covers. as good as the new ship cover may look there's just a part of me that says "oh look, the ship from another angle". the KM is from an angle you don't normally see though.
but i like art of the characters. my least favorite kind of cover is the publicity shot of the actors.
that being said, the one book i have bought because of the cover i probably wouldn't have otherwise? Rosetta. I love the cover. Haven't read the book yet. It's way up there in my list of things to read. In fact it's the only ST book I've bought new I haven't read. I've got a few dozen of the older titles used during blow out sales for book stores clearing stock or going under. I just can't resist a $1 ST book...
but i like art of the characters. my least favorite kind of cover is the publicity shot of the actors.
that being said, the one book i have bought because of the cover i probably wouldn't have otherwise? Rosetta. I love the cover. Haven't read the book yet.
It's way up there in my list of things to read. In fact it's the only ST book I've bought new I haven't read. I've got a few dozen of the older titles used during blow out sales for book stores clearing stock or going under. I just can't resist a $1 ST book...I'm very excited about the Voyager news. It has been far too long between books.
I know it has been talked about before, but since Pocket is bumping up the Voyager time line, will DS9 also get bumped up? I know in the past Marco has said no, but it would seem to make sense to bring it up with the others.
I know it has been talked about before, but since Pocket is bumping up the Voyager time line, will DS9 also get bumped up? I know in the past Marco has said no, but it would seem to make sense to bring it up with the others.
^ No. The reason why Voyager is being bumped is because half the cast has already been seen in the post-Nemesis timeframe: Janeway in Articles of the Federation, Death in Winter, Resistance, Q & A, and Before Dishonor; Seven of Nine in Resistance and Before Dishonor; the EMH in Articles of the Federation; and Tuvok in Taking Wing, The Red King, Orion's Hounds, and Sword of Damocles. It's also a smaller jump: we last saw Voyager fiction in mid-2378.
But there's no reason to artificially jump up the DS9 fiction, and no reason to sacrifice all the storytelling possibilities that are still there in 2377.
But there's no reason to artificially jump up the DS9 fiction, and no reason to sacrifice all the storytelling possibilities that are still there in 2377.
But how many book covers has the Enterprise-E been on, though? Looking over the Complete Starfleet Library, and skipping stuff like RPGs and various non-Pocket nonfiction:
First Contact and Insurrection novelizations/tie-ins using the movie posters
Revised Encyclopedia, 2nd and 3rd editions (in ship montage)
Ship of the Line (along with floating heads)
Triangle: Imzadi II (w/ floating heads)
Dominion War Books 1 & 3
The Genesis Wave Book 1
Starship Spotter
Forgiveness (Wildstorm hardcover graphic novel)
Maximum Warp Books 1 & 2
Gateways: Doors into Chaos
The Amazing Stories (w/ floating heads/torsos)
Genesis Force
5 of the A Time to... books (in small montages/action scenes)
SCE: The Art of the Deal
Ships of the Line (in montage)
The Space Between trade paperback (IDW comics)
The Sky's the Limit
Slings and Arrows Books 2 & 6
CoE: Remembrance of Things Past Book 1
Greater Than the Sum
Okay, that's more than I thought, but not many over the past few years, and including relatively few actual TNG books. Also, in most of those, the E-E is small or part of a montage. There aren't many of those covers that show it off particularly well; I'd say the only Pocket books that do are Dominion War Bk. 1 and The Sky's the Limit, and now GTTS.
So... did anyone get a copy of the sampler?
Who is editing the Voyager Relaunch now?
Marco.
Not if you don't like the cover.
I've never been a fan of ship-centric covers at odd angles with flashy backgrounds. Lacks imagination in my mind.
Hehe. I suppose this is the definition of IDIC as I have never liked character-centric covers. I must be one of the few people who didn't like the cover for Warpath but then my interest in Star Trek was initially derived from the ships and technology. Star Trek for me is the Enterprise, not Kirk or Picard.
I'm also glad to see the return of VGR-R. I think I shall be buying nearly all the books listed.
I've found that my favorite covers are often those which feature both (e.g. Avatar, Terok Nor, A Time To . . .). I wonder if those might satisfy both groups.
He wasn't editing before though, was he. If he is the new editor, then that explains a whole lot.
The Guy is literally a genius.
I don't think I've said yet how exited I am to see what Kirsten Beyer does with the Voy-R. I really enjoyed the second String Theory book, and I'm can't wait to see what see does with the characters now.
So is Marco handeling all of the Destiny and Post-Destiny stuff then?
So is Marco handeling all of the Destiny and Post-Destiny stuff then?
You reckon?
The main point of a cover is to make passersby pick up the book in a bookstore long enough to flip it over and read the blurb. Research shows that if you can get a browser to do that, you're closer to making a sale.
Although I don't get terribly excited by starship covers, I know plenty of ST fans who do drool over images of tech.
I do love portrait covers, and especially those with a known or unknown guest alien alongside members of the main crew.
No, he wasn't; the VOY "relaunch" was previously edited by John Ordover and then Jennifer Heddle.
Margaret Clark and Marco Palmieri are both involved in Destiny, as it's a crossover between the TNG "relaunch" (Margaret) and Titan (Marco), with elements from the DS9 "relaunch" (Marco). I imagine post-Destiny stuff will see each editor continue to handle those same series. And if New Frontier moves to a post-Destiny setting, I assume Ed Schlesinger will continue to work on that.
I'm curious about A Singular Destiny, though; who's editing that, KRAD?
Online, you never know.
I'm pretty sure that's Marco too. Nobody edits their own books; that's a conflict of interest. Whenever KRAD wrote an SCE/CoE installment, for instance, someone else (such as John Ordover) would step in to edit it.
