Most Striking Covers

[BrotherBenny]

The technical term for multiple works of art that combine into a larger whole is polyptych (Greek for "many folds"). Two is a diptych, three a triptych, four a tetraptych, etc. using Greek numerical prefixes.

I'd heard triptych before, I think it was for the Terok Nor ones.

How do you pronounce tetraptych? Is the p silent?

 

[Christopher]

The p is pronounced in the other forms of the word, so I assume it would be there as well. I'm not sure where the accent would fall, though. My assumption would be on the penultimate syllable as in the other forms, so that "tetraptych" would rhyme with "slapstick." But Wikipedia and Dictionary.com say "polyptych" is accented on the first syllable (and don't specify for "tetraptych").

 

[Therin of Andor]

I recently saw a copy of Price of the Phoenix in a used book store that featured a guy in an alien mask (with vaguely Romulan features) riding a horse on a desert landscape. It had nothing to do with the story, but it was imaginative.

That's the Corgi UK edition.
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/a/a0/THPRCFTHPH1977.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi%3FTHPRCFTHPH1977&usg=__G5uYWFQtAJA9wgPR7Ib-i3SbhMw=&h=600&w=370&sz=84&hl=en&start=1&zoom=0&tbnid=I_iU421qhUteOM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=83&ei=yBFfTciyD4mecO3MgM8J&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522price%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bphoenix%2522%2Bcorgi%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D590%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1

I guess it's meant to be Omne? Or one of Corgi's artists just did a spec, generic alien for use on any SF cover.

It took me ages to get clean, early Bantam US printings of "The Price of the Phoenix", "Planet of Judgment" and "Spock, Messiah" to bring cohesion to my collection because Australia received mainly the Corgis of those three. (It was in the days where Australia law mandated that distributors wait a few months and import announced UK editions if the same title was already available from the US.)

Mind you, the Corgi UK edition of "Spock, Messiah" is very nice!
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/File:Spock_Messiah_1977.jpg

 

[David Mack]

For those who have enjoyed the Vanguard covers by Doug Drexler, here is his latest for the upcoming anthology, Star Trek Vanguard: Declassified. (I hesitate to post the image directly to the board because it's really big, and that can be kind of obnoxious.)

 

[JD]

Sweet cover, and I'm very intrigued by the timeline placement of the different stories. I'm assuming it's pointless to ask for more details at this time, though?
EDITED TO ADD: Is this the first we've seen the titles? Which I also find very intriguing.

 

[David Mack]

^ I think this is likely all the details we're likely to release until maybe a month or so before the book comes out. Once sample chapters begin showing up online, we might be a bit more forthcoming about which characters are the focus of which tales … or we might not.

 

[Thrawn]

Oh man I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait. Vanguard has been firing on all cylinders since chapter 1 of book 1; I'm fully expecting this to continue blowing my damn mind.

 

[Defcon]

we might be a bit more forthcoming about which characters are the focus of which tales … or we might not.

 

[Warp Coil]

The Vanguard novels definitely have some gorgeous cover art. I also really like:

TOS: Crucible trilogy
DS9: Avatar, books 1-2
DS9: Terok Nor trilogy
DS9: Fearful Symmetry
DS9: Never-Ending Sacrifice
TTN: Sword of Damocles
TTN: Over a Torrent Sea

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

In addition to most of the ones already mentioned, I also really like the covers for The Sky's the Limit and Articles of the Federation.

 

[nickyboy]

For those who have enjoyed the Vanguard covers by Doug Drexler, here is his latest for the upcoming anthology, Star Trek Vanguard: Declassified. (I hesitate to post the image directly to the board because it's really big, and that can be kind of obnoxious.)

You can add this one to my list of favourites!

 

[Cicero]

My favorites are:

A Time To Heal
Abyss
The Art of the Impossible
Articles of the Federation
Avatar
Cloak
Constellations
Crossover
Crucible
Dark Mirror
Death in Winter
The Disinherited
Do Comets Dream?
Doctor's Orders
The Empty Chair
Excalibur: Requiem
The Eyes of the Beholders
The Farther Shore
The Final Fury
Fire On High
The Good That Men Do
The Great Starship Race
Homecoming
Ice Trap
Martyr
Mission: Gamma (I-III)
The Murdered Sun
The Never-Ending Sacrifice
Open Secrets
Orion's Hounds
Paths of Disharmony
Reap the Whirlwind
Relics
The Return
Rising Son
Rogue
The Romulan Way
Serpents Among the Ruins
Taking Wing
Terok Nor
Unity
Warpath
Zero Sum Game

 

[ST-One]

For those who have enjoyed the Vanguard covers by Doug Drexler, here is his latest for the upcoming anthology, Star Trek Vanguard: Declassified. (I hesitate to post the image directly to the board because it's really big, and that can be kind of obnoxious.)

If this were a 3D-forum I'd say: the composition of the image is very nice - it give a good sense of work being done. But you need to work on you lighting and surfacing - both look very B5-ish. Also, you should try and make it look a little less obvious that you only used the existing geometry of the station-mesh to open up the hull; use a few custom-made shapes to cut the openings into the hull (btw, it would be very unlikely that the SCI would paint the letter of the name on an unfinished hull, and even more unlikely on the inside portions of that hull)

... if this were a 3D-forum...

 

[David Mack]

^ Tell you what: If Doug ever posts this cover art to his blog, we'll give you a heads-up and you can go take it up with the artist. Me? I just write the words and report the news.

 

[ST-One]

^ Tell you what: If Doug ever posts this cover art to his blog, we'll give you a heads-up and you can go take it up with the artist. Me? I just write the words and report the news.

And I hope you write a lot more words about the Vanguard-station and its crew and 'citizens' - and I really hope these books could get cover-art that does them justice.

 

[William Leisner]

Yeah, it's such a shame Pocket has to settle for an Oscar- and Emmy Award-winning artist to do these covers...

 

[ST-One]

Yeah, it's such a shame Pocket has to settle for an Oscar- and Emmy Award-winning artist to do these covers...

No, not a shame at all. But the big name of a talented guy like him still means nothing if the end result looks like something a mildly talented hobbyist could render out on his home PC.

Doug Drexler or not, the Vanguard covers just aren't very good.

 

[Janos]

Nice cover.

Losing the peace german cover:

How come the German covers are always better than the English-language ones? (with the exception of their standing image for Mac Calhoun)

 

[Janos]

I really like the covers for the Terok Nor trilogy.

Me too. Found this pic online without the cover text and combining all 3 covers.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070918114947/memoryalpha/en/images/9/95/TerokNorTriptych.jpg

 

[Janos]

As much as NF is probably my fave ST lit series, the recent covers are impersonal with inanimate objects / skylines. So, I don't think their covers count, really.

My fave covers are probably the 2 Avatar covers though. They looked great and had me really wanting to read what was inside (which I really enjoyed).


http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/_...ne_cover.jpg/292px-Avatar,_Book_One_cover.jpg
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/_...wo_cover.jpg/292px-Avatar,_Book_Two_cover.jpg