Just pulled the 2006 reprint of Vulcan's Glory off my shelf, and I was thinking which cover art was my favorite of the two? The 2006 cover I notice S&S used a still from The Cage of Spock and Pike on the bridge with the jewel and skeleton hands around them, whereas the original was a painting with Nimoy's likeness as Spock and Jeffrey Hunter's likeness as Pike, around the jewel with possible the lost alien city on display. It's been nearly a decade since I read this book, and some of the details have faded, however I do recall liking the Pike in this story and finding that he still matched up with Burning Dreams, The Cage, Final Frontier, and the Starfleet Academy trilogy. And glancing through the opening pages, I notice that Fontana also briefly recounted the events of Yesteryear (pg. 12, 2006 edition) which is surprising for a Richard Arnold-era novel and how Arnold and Roddenberry had basically outlawed any use of material from TAS. Selek, TAS-Spock's name in Yesteryear even gets mentioned!
But in terms of covers, I remember even back in 2006 (hard to believe that it's been nearly 20 years since this cover was released in August 2006! Seems like yesterday that this reprint appeared on the shelves of my local Coles bookstore---now, nothing for Trek! Not even reprints!) finding that I preferred the 1989 cover. It just seemed more inviting and welcoming, whereas the 2006 cover makes it look like it's suppose to be a prequel to Death's Angel from the Bantam TOS-era with it's 1981 and 1985 covers and the Angel of Death holding the sand timer in it's skeletal hands!
As far as I'm aware, Vulcan's Glory has never been reprinted in a omnibus edition or any other standalone edition with a different cover in Canada and the US. So this poll is only based on the Canadian/American cover artwork from 1989 and 2006. Other countries may have received different covers (has Vulcan's Glory received a German printing by either Heyne or Cross Cult?), but those may have just used the Canadian/American artwork.
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But in terms of covers, I remember even back in 2006 (hard to believe that it's been nearly 20 years since this cover was released in August 2006! Seems like yesterday that this reprint appeared on the shelves of my local Coles bookstore---now, nothing for Trek! Not even reprints!) finding that I preferred the 1989 cover. It just seemed more inviting and welcoming, whereas the 2006 cover makes it look like it's suppose to be a prequel to Death's Angel from the Bantam TOS-era with it's 1981 and 1985 covers and the Angel of Death holding the sand timer in it's skeletal hands!
As far as I'm aware, Vulcan's Glory has never been reprinted in a omnibus edition or any other standalone edition with a different cover in Canada and the US. So this poll is only based on the Canadian/American cover artwork from 1989 and 2006. Other countries may have received different covers (has Vulcan's Glory received a German printing by either Heyne or Cross Cult?), but those may have just used the Canadian/American artwork.
Death's Angel
A dazzling new full-length novel—never before published, never seen on television. — Death's Angel is a Star Trek novel, a TOS adventure from Bantam Books in April 1981. This was the final of 13 full-length novels in the Bantam TOS series, and the last of three released after the license to...
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Spoilers - TOS 44 Vulcan's Glory by D.C. Fontana Review Thread
I didn't know how I would like this novel when I started it. 80's TOS novels have not had the best track record for me. But this novel was decent, although at times sparse. From what I could tell, the book is set 5 years before "The Cage", but 2 years after construction on the Enterprise is...
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