Foreign novel covers

[tomswift2002]

What do you mean by "compressed" and "compatible" for kids? I seem too recall that the book was written for the children's market in English.

 

[Hugh Cambridge]

There is a website where french covers can be seen:
http://www.webtopaze.com/romans/
But lately, no editor publishes Star Trek in french anymore besides novelisations.

 

[Therin of Andor]

"Star Trek" japanese cover

in a Google image search scores a few covers:

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=...g&biw=1440&bih=673&sei=J9iHUMy_KOiaiQetloGABA

and the first one links to:
http://woodblock.com/star_trek/

 

[Greg Cox]

"Notruf aus dem All?" The online translator says that's "Emergency call from the All." I wonder what that means in the context of Mission to Horatius.

I love that first cover -- the Enterprise as an antenna-laden flying saucer hovering a few dozen meters above the ground while people fire on it with hand-held ray guns. I think we have a new winner for "Most Inaccurate Star Trek Novel Cover."

The translaters of fictional works in Germany have been known for decades to be, let's call it "creative" when it comes to translating titles. They quite often make something up which either they or their Marketing-Supervisors think that will sell well, instead of staying close to the originals. .

It's not just the Germans. My ROSWELL novel, Loose Ends, was published in France as Assassins Never Forget.

Huh?