One Constant Star Cover Revealed!
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Well, some people around here seemed to think so, and given you've changed the image into a link and you've abided to an unfair request (given the image was on Facebook) and he's not been an active member here for years, you are kinda implying that what I did was wrong and against the rules somehow.
Exactly, so instead of a link to a fan Facebook page, I'll change it back to the image on my photobucket account.
It may seem to be a bit pointless now, since it's up on startrek.com, but I thought it was a fair request from DRG - whether he's a member here or not; it's his work.
We operate on the information we have at the time. Dimesdan did when he posted the image, I did when I changed it to a link.
We operate on the information we have at the time. Dimesdan did when he posted the image, I did when I changed it to a link.
I bet the spine is inconsistent...
I think it is cool that the cover looks so much like the LE book featuring the Ent-B.
I felt the same way as OverlordSpock did at first, both for the Terok Nor trilogy and for The Buried Age. Christopher raises a valid point with the choice of ship though. The Stargazer would have likely been the most recognizable choice, but of course it only features in a small part of the novel. The current covers for these books are still amazing though, so I don't mind as much that they didn't follow the TLE format.
Having said that, still kudos for bringing the format back for this new installment. I always though it looked very nice and unique, and if the inside matches the quality of Serpents Among the Ruins as much as the outside does, I will be very happy.
Glad they went back to the previous design. Looks sharp.
Although, Deny Thy Father used the Pegasus on its cover which doesn't really play that large a role in the overall story.
Nice cover, although I was hoping we might get a rendering of a Tzenkethi - my poor imagination just can't imagine them as anything other than Kif Kroker's species in Futurama.
I tend to think of them as slightly more relaxed, glowing, Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tubemen.
To me, the Tzenkethi's description is reminiscent of the stereotypical "Gray alien," sort of like the flexible-bodied Close Encounters aliens, but taller and more glowy. There's a particular variant of "Gray" I've seen in some movie or show that was glowing, I think, but I can't remember where it's from.
I do, too -- though I suppose the fact that a Human and a Cardassian were both able to be surgically altered to look like a Tzenkethi in Brinkmanship implies that Tzenkethi skulls and limb structures must be relatively close to humanoid norm. (Or is there maybe a difference between the body structures of Tzenkethi service grades and upper grades? Maybe service-grade Tzenkethi still have skeletons while upper-grade Tzenkethi don't.)
Just this one for this year anyway.
And while I do realize this book is probably more about DRG wanting to tell another Enterprise B story/follow up to Serpents Among the Ruins rather than kick-starting a new Lost Era series, I have been wondering if doing more Lost Era novels on a regular basis could become possible? Obviously we wouldn't get anything like what we had in 2003, but I'm thinking one novel a year set on the Enterprise B or C, the Excelsior, the Stargazer, or another early career days of one of the 24th century characters? The period covers 70 years, plenty of story material for a single stand-alone story per year.
Though I suppose such a decision should wait until after this novel is released and we see how well it sells.
True, but let's see what we can do to help on the sales front!
I would love to read a USS Rutledge story.
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