Which Star Trek Novels Have The Best Cover Art?

[Dayton3]

I'm a big fan of cool and interesting cover art for novels.

Especially science fiction and this Star Trek ones.

Which Trek novels do you people think have the greatest cover art and why?

Some of my favorites:

1) Deaths Angel
2) Black Fire
3) the current Corps of Engineers book, can't remember the name.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

There are many great covers. These are just first few that come to mind:

New Worlds, New Civilizations
Immortal Coil
A Stitch in Time
Voyages of Imagination
Captain's Table (all six as one)
Section 31 (particularly Abyss)
I, Q


I know I'm forgetting some obvious ones...

 

[KRAD]

3) the current Corps of Engineers book, can't remember the name.

You mean Grand Designs?

 

[bok2384]

Agreed on Grand Designs, a beautiful cover.

I also like the cover for Signs from Heaven, which is also a quality cover. The cover art for the Crucible trilogy was also good.

 

[JD]

Most of my favorites are ones that either are recent, or not even out yet. The ones I have especially liked are A Burning House The Buried Age Fearful Symmetry, the Vanguard books, Warpth, the Terok Nor books, and the MU books.

 

[Larki_Toran]

I loved the Crucible trilogy covers.

 

[nickyboy]

the Vanguard covers are cool, I have always like the cover for New frontier 7 & 8 and the cover for restoration but my favorite cover is for After the Fall

 

[8of5]

I like Captain's Blood, a nice strong graphical image. I'm not much of a fan of collections of heads and a ship covers. Though despite featuring those, I do like the Titan covers, good strong graphics again.

 

[JWolf]

KRAD said:

3) the current Corps of Engineers book, can't remember the name.

You mean Grand Designs?

ACK! Why assume the latest book means the lastest dead tree reprint and not the latest CoE book Remembrance of Things Past Book One? Some of the SCE/CoE books have very nice covers.

 

[23skidoo]

I do have fond memories of Boris Valeijo's cover art in the 1980s. One of my favorites is Dwellers in the Crucible because you don't really expect a Trek cover to be erotic but Boris managed to push those buttons with his depiction of the two Vulcan women.

I also have always had a soft spot for the NCC-1701 "beauty shots" that adorned many of the original Bantam releases, including the James Blish novelizations and some of the original novels, too.

But nothing has ever topped for me the impact of seeing the cover of the TMP novelization, which of course was based on the film's poster. It just said to me "Trek is back!" in a way no other book has done since. And I was only 10 years old at the time!

Cheers!

Alex

 

[ATimson]

JWolf said:
ACK! Why assume the latest book means the lastest dead tree reprint and not the latest CoE book Remembrance of Things Past Book One?

Because generally books are significantly longer than novella-length?

 

[Christopher]

23skidoo said:
I do have fond memories of Boris Valeijo's cover art in the 1980s. One of my favorites is Dwellers in the Crucible because you don't really expect a Trek cover to be erotic but Boris managed to push those buttons with his depiction of the two Vulcan women.

Only one was Vulcan (unusually, the lighter-haired one). The one on the right -- the one with distinctly rounded eyebrows -- is presumably meant to be Cleante, who's Egyptian.

 

[JWolf]

ATimson said:

JWolf said:
ACK! Why assume the latest book means the lastest dead tree reprint and not the latest CoE book Remembrance of Things Past Book One?

Because generally books are significantly longer than novella-length?

But as we know from another thread Terri said her CoE is about book length. So we are making assumptions here that may or may not be correct.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

JWolf said:
ACK! Why assume the latest book means the lastest dead tree reprint and not the latest CoE book Remembrance of Things Past Book One? Some of the SCE/CoE books have very nice covers.

Sometimes I think Mike Collins doesn't get the notice that he deserves for his fabulous work on the eBooks. I felt absolutely blessed by the fantastic cover for Ring Around the Sky, because it so captured the Golden Age sensawunder I wanted from the story. It's a fantastic piece of artwork.

Don't ask me to chose which depiction of Kharzh'ulla I like more -- the eBook or the TPB cover. They're so different in style and evocation that I simply can't choose. Sorry.

 

[captcalhoun]

Grand Designs, Titan 1-4, Vanguard 1-3, A Good Day to Die, NF 5 and 6 (the crew cover, not 7 and 8 as claimed above).

Breakdowns collection annoys me. SPOILERIFIC!

 

[JWolf]

Allyn Gibson said:

JWolf said:
ACK! Why assume the latest book means the lastest dead tree reprint and not the latest CoE book Remembrance of Things Past Book One? Some of the SCE/CoE books have very nice covers.

Sometimes I think Mike Collins doesn't get the notice that he deserves for his fabulous work on the eBooks. I felt absolutely blessed by the fantastic cover for Ring Around the Sky, because it so captured the Golden Age sensawunder I wanted from the story. It's a fantastic piece of artwork.

Don't ask me to chose which depiction of Kharzh'ulla I like more -- the eBook or the TPB cover. They're so different in style and evocation that I simply can't choose. Sorry.

This is for all those that do not like ebooks, When you bypass the ebooks, you bypass some truly nice cover artwork. The SCE/CoE series do have some very nice covers. But witht he reprints, you only get one cover and miss many.

That said, I just took a look at the cover for Ring Around the Sky and yes, I do like it. I also like the story as well. Gave some nice character development for Tev.

 

[Smiley]

I have no idea how updated it is, but Psi Phi has a pretty good gallery of the SCE covers.

My favorite covers are either unusual or tell you something important about the story. Unity and the reprint of Vulcan's Glory have fantastic covers.

 

[seigezunt]

the original "Spock, Messiah!"

 

[KRAD]

ACK! Why assume the latest book means the lastest dead tree reprint and not the latest CoE book Remembrance of Things Past Book One? Some of the SCE/CoE books have very nice covers.

1) I wasn't assuming, I was asking. 2) I figured he meant "book" rather than "eBook" by virtue of his using the word "book." *wry grin* 3) After seven years of seeing the vast majority of the responses to the existence of the eBook line being "I'm waiting for the print books because those are real books you can hold in your hand, which is just like Captain Kirk was!!!!!!!!!" I just pretty much assume people refer to the print books, since those are, y'know, real books.

Having said that, I think that Mike Collins's work on the eBook covers has gotten better and better, and that the covers for the COE relaunch and Slings and Arrows kicks several different kinds of ass.

 

[JD]

Smiley said:
I have no idea how updated it is, but Psi Phi has a pretty good gallery of the SCE covers.

My favorite covers are either unusual or tell you something important about the story. Unity and the reprint of Vulcan's Glory have fantastic covers.

I just checked out the covers for CoE, and Slings & Arrows and I gotta say both series have some awsome cover art. I also wanted to add all four Titan books to my list from before.