Favorite Book Covers

[tomswift2002]

I was just passing my book shelf, and on the very top, being held by book-ends, are a number of Hardcover Treks, and I spotted the cover for William Shatner's "The Return", and I just thought about how the cover art could've easily been a movie poster. Had "The Return" been turned into a movie, I could just see that cover art being used for a theatrical marquee.

And just recently I read "Cybersong" and that is probably one of the greatest covers of all time for Trek.

So what are your favorite Trek covers. It doesn't matter whether the book was good or bad, since sometimes the worst books get the best covers.

 

[ATimson]

Anything by Cliff Nielsen, except Warpath. (Not that Warpath was bad - I just thought it somewhat boring compared to his earlier DS9 covers.)

 

[Enterprise1701]

Vanguard - Storming Heaven because it shows an space armada in combat.

The Next Generation - The Sky's the Limit because it shows the Enterprise-D alongside the Enterprise-E, with the E, one of my favorite ships, at the fore.

Deep Space Nine - Avatar, Book 2 because it is the first appearance of Ro Laren and Taran'atar in 2376.

Klingon Empire - A Burning House because it depicts the Klingon First City.

Cross Cult's covers for the German editions of Typhon Pact - Zero Sum Game, Seize the Fire, Rough Beasts of Empire, and Paths of Disharmony because unlike the Pocket Books covers, they are in realistic (albeit not photographic) color and show more than two floating heads. And they form a tetraptych.

The Fall - Revelation and Dust because it depicts the second Deep Space 9, a never-before-seen starbase.

 

[Kilana2]

The Terok Nor Covers: Day of the Vipers, Night of the Wolves, Dawn of the Eagles

 

[Thrawn]

I think my favorites are still probably the two Avatar covers. Awesome on so many levels.

 

[aventinelover]

Star Trek Next Generation: Dark Mirror. I turned the Next Gen Imperial Badge into a tattoo.

 

[Markonian]

^ Good choices. There's a plethora of good covers.

At the moment, my favorite one is: Tower of Babel. Hands down awesome. The ships are beautiful, and the background stellar nebula is pure eye-candy.

 

[Cyfa]

Oh, this is going to be difficult. I've only got half way through my bookshelf and found loads of fantastic covers already!

Pretty much all the Vanguard covers are excellent, but I particularly like Harbinger (the first look at Vanguard); Reap the Whirlwind (the little Sagittarius against the massive D7); and Declassified (the construction of Vanguard and the Ptolemy-class Al Rashid).

I love the consistent design of The Lost Era novels, especially how Rachel Garrett's hairstyle mirrors the Hebitian mask in Well of Souls; but also the fact that we get to see Uhura in her admiral's uniform on the cover of Catalyst of Sorrows.

The polyptych covers of the Terok Nor series, Avatar, and the Mission: Gamma series are all wonderful, too, especially as we get to see all the lit-only characters of DS9 amongst the remaining TV characters.

I found Watching the Clock's cover to be very effective, as was The Never Ending Sacrifice - the single Cardassian figure standing before the ruins of Cardassia. Unity showing Kira in her Starfleet captain's uniform is also a favourite.

I can't choose. And I haven't even checked the covers of the TOS novels!

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Some of my favourites:

Warpath: Taran'atar unleashed. Odo got what he wanted in a way he wouldn't have intended; Taran'atar has broken free. Definitely one of the more inventive covers.

The Never-Ending Sacrifice: Cardassian guardsman (Rugal?) standing in what seems like a mild slump amid the ruins of Cardassia City. How can one small figure protect all the terrible, stark beauty and brutal, sweeping culture of Cardassia? It's all fallen apart around him, and his stick isn't raised in vigilance or defence (or indeed in anger) but just rests there in his hand. Wonderful, truly wonderful. The cover just captures the book so perfectly.

Day of the Vipers: Dukat looks to the future, both determined and with a shiftiness about him, and it's almost as if he's eying too the backdrop of beautiful Bajor, with the colours making it seem almost drenched in blood...

Taking Wing, The Red King, Orion's Hounds: I loved the first few Titan covers, where they took a collection of characters and relevant symbols and draped them lovingly down one side of the cover, opposite the ghostly "TITAN". And they went so far as to create images of Akaar and Ree, showing that there was willingness to be truly creative.

Beneath the Raptor's Wing: Rather than battle scenes, this one went with a different angle on illustrating the theme of war, by showing Archer surrounded by his alien allies as they take a joint stand against the Romulans...but are they standing behind him in support or fading into the backdrop, leaving him there at the front?

 

[Kilana2]

I´d like to add Cross Cult´s versions of DS9 A Stitch in Time and Soul Key. They are certainly a matter of taste.

http://www.cross-cult.de/titeldetai...ep-space-nine-ein-stich-zur-rechten-zeit.html

http://www.cross-cult.de/titeldetails-343/items/deep-space-nine-903.html

 

[Deranged Nasat]

I´d like to add Cross Cult´s versions of DS9 A Stitch in Time and Soul Key. They are certainly a matter of taste.

http://www.cross-cult.de/titeldetai...ep-space-nine-ein-stich-zur-rechten-zeit.html

http://www.cross-cult.de/titeldetails-343/items/deep-space-nine-903.html

The Soul Key is really interesting for how...peaceful...Iliana Ghemor looks as she contemplates the Pagh'varam. I suppose it emphasises her fanatical belief that she can "get her life back" through reaching the Prophets, that the power and capabilities it grants her is the one thing that can give her a chance and a future. There's something eerie about seeing her look so sedate.

 

[Enterprise1701]

Taking Wing, The Red King, Orion's Hounds: I loved the first few Titan covers, where they took a collection of characters and relevant symbols and draped them lovingly down one side of the cover, opposite the ghostly "TITAN". And they went so far as to create images of Akaar and Ree, showing that there was willingness to be truly creative.

Actually, the image of Leonard James Akaar is just a photoshop of his father from their debut episode.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Akaar

 

[KRAD]

I will always have a soft spot for Sonia Hillios's magnificent painting for my first-ever Trek novel, Diplomatic Implausibility. I also have a harder spot for it, to wit, one of the walls in my apartment, where the original art is hanging.

Sonia's cover for A Hard Rain was also superb. And I have always been extremely fond of the covers for Tales of the Dominion War, A Burning House, and Articles of the Federation.

I'll also add to the general love for Doug Drexler (Vanguard), John Picacio (Terok Nor, Crucible, the first two Myriad Universes), and Cliff Nielsen (many of the post-finale DS9 covers) shown in this thread already.

Oh, and Tim Bradstreet killed with the Disavowed cover......

 

[20fridge]

I love the Mission Gamma covers. I like knowing what the new characters look like

 

[DS9forever]

Anything by Cliff Nielsen, except Warpath. (Not that Warpath was bad - I just thought it somewhat boring compared to his earlier DS9 covers.)

An image of a pissed-off Jem'Hadar is boring?

 

[Deranged Nasat]

I will always have a soft spot for Sonia Hillios's magnificent painting for my first-ever Trek novel, Diplomatic Implausibility.

Oh yes, that's a good one too. Primarily because it accurately illustrates the novel's guest aliens (complete with glyph).

 

[tomswift2002]

I also love the cover art for "Rogue Saucer". Not many books gave you that angle on the saucer.

 

[ATimson]

I also love the cover art for "Rogue Saucer". Not many books gave you that angle on the saucer.

Yeah, but it looks like they used the overplated four-footer as reference...

(I kid, I like that cover too. Should go back and reread that book at some point...)

 

[BritishSeaPower]

The Fortieth Anniversary edition cover of Federation. Simple but so very effective.

 

[Reanok]

I really like the art for Star Trek Tos Constellations story anthology, I really like Mere Anarchy and the Terok Nor trilogy. I really like Foul deeds will rise. And The light Fantastic I really like the Data and Lal. The cover art is really good.Imzadi by Peter David david and Spock's world. I also like the ds9 cover art For Plague of night and Raise the dawn and The Missing.