New 2017 titles and blurbs - DTI, McCormack DS9, and more!
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I don't think Drexler is shoddy/untalented, but he needs to stop using people in his designs. Just look at the Patterns of Interference cover. Either go back to hand-drawn/painted covers or stick to non-actor shots; that PoI cover looks beautiful without Trip shoehorned into the foreground.
Three months in the release schedule without a novel, a demonstrable decline in cover quality...what's next? Every book bound the way A Choice of Futures was?
The Trek line needs to be cared for much more effectively moving forward, especially if CBS's big expectations for Discovery are justified.
Yes, well said. Thats something I've been trying to put my finger on for some time.
Pocket needs to care for the Star Trek book line much more than it currently seems to.
I long for the days of Marco Palmieri, the early DS9 Relaunch, crossovers with the comics, the publication of Voyages of the Imagination, a healthy ebook line, awesome book covers, and between 12-15 books per year.
We're a long way from those days.
Pocket needs to care for the Star Trek book line much more than it currently seems to.
I long for the days of Marco Palmieri, the early DS9 Relaunch, crossovers with the comics, the publication of Voyages of the Imagination, a healthy ebook line, awesome book covers, and between 12-15 books per year.
We're a long way from those days.
Well, when it comes to the schedule, we do need to remember that Discovery kind has things in flux right now. We have a slow down in the Voyager books because DSC hired Kirsten Beyer so that gave us one of the gaps. I can't remember for sure if the DSC book was separate from the rest, so it being pulled might be the second gap. They also appear to be avoiding the 23rd century, so that also limits things.
Honestly, I'm not that concerned with the occaisional gaps in the schedule. Most other tie-in lines only do 3 or 4 a year at most, so the fact that Pocket has managed to give us 12 books a year, most years, for as long as they have and that they've managed to keep fairly consistent high quality, is pretty damn impressive. I'm not going to let one or two years with a some gaps concern me.
Now, the bad covers on the other hand.... there's no real excuse for those.
Honestly, I'm not that concerned with the occaisional gaps in the schedule. Most other tie-in lines only do 3 or 4 a year at most, so the fact that Pocket has managed to give us 12 books a year, most years, for as long as they have and that they've managed to keep fairly consistent high quality, is pretty damn impressive. I'm not going to let one or two years with a some gaps concern me.
Now, the bad covers on the other hand.... there's no real excuse for those.
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Are there any future travel guides planned?
Seems like I was right way back in February when speculating that Original Sin will be a Robinson novel. Cover and Synopsis for Original Sin were revealed today.
Sounds like we might be getting another of those 'missing stories' filled in, from the blurb...
Nah, late 2385+3 months sounds pretty much concurrent to the beginning of The Long Mirage.
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I think he means that we'll be getting the details on, or a flashback to, Rebecca being kidnapped during the time-skip. Which is probably a good thing, since it was such a big driver of the unpopular directions Sisko's character was taken for a while.
^Indeed. I can see the inciting incident triggering a flashback to 2380...
Ohh, you're right, that would be great!
No different from Force and Motion, and in both cases is focusing on characters that have had very little page time in recent years.
