Which Star Trek Novels Have The Best Cover Art?

[Man of Steel]

Some I like:

1) Sky's the Limit
2) Collision Course
3) Burning House
4) Resistance
5) Imzadi

Just some of my favorites.

 

[Trent Roman]

Immortal Coil remains the champion, as far as I'm concerned. Great concept, looks beautiful.

JWolf said:
This is for all those that do not like ebooks, When you bypass the ebooks, you bypass some truly nice cover artwork.

You know, apart from the occasional exceptions like Signs from Heaven, I just don't care for Mike Collins' art. It seems... fractured, if that makes sense. It doesn't have a natural flow. Like he's trying to be true to life, but is working with a limited palette or a too-small canvas.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Arpy]

An earlier thread to which I contributed many of my favorites:

http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/showflat....rt=all&vc=1

 

[Sxottlan]

captcalhoun said:Breakdowns collection annoys me. SPOILERIFIC!

Reminds me of the back cover copy for the most recent Star Wars book.

I haven't kept up with any of these books and only recently bought the beginning of the NJO, but I saw the book and picked it up and the first thing you read right there on the back cover is, what I imagine anyway, a huge spoiler to the end of the last one. Gee thanks.

 

[Sxottlan]

KRAD said:
I just pretty much assume people refer to the print books, since those are, y'know, real books.

He sees the light!

 

[Bryan316]

Articles of the Federation (especially when mentally PSing out the text)
Tales of the Dominion War (either the blue or the red)
The Return

 

[nickyboy]

captcalhoun said:
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!

I dont remeber saying that NF 7 & 8 were the crew cover pics, merely that I liked them, as they have the black mass in one of them and it is the only time we see the Excalibur mark I

 

[Baerbel Haddrell]

Speaking of NF covers: I am hoping they will finally get more interesting than seeing a sword sticking out somewhere or lying around in a background that has little to nothing to do with the contents of the book and with no people in sight. (I don`t think "No Limits" made good use of Calhoun`s real life model at all)

I love Mike Collins NF art. I think he would be the right person for the job to make NF covers more appealing in future.

 

[LiChiu]

I think the first two Vanguard novels have the best covers.
Left Hand of Destiny book 2 comes in 3rd.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:Harbinger_cover.jpg
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:Summon_the_Thunder.jpg
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:Thelefthandofdestinybook2.jpg

 

[captcalhoun]

Baerbel Haddrell said:
Speaking of NF covers: I am hoping they will finally get more interesting than seeing a sword sticking out somewhere or lying around in a background that has little to nothing to do with the contents of the book and with no people in sight.

QFT

 

[Baerbel Haddrell]

I know what Q&A means (great book, by the way!) but what is QFT?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

QFT=Quoted For Truth.

It means that he agrees with whatever the other person wrote, and he couldn't phrase it better himself.

It's a worrying trend in 'net discussion, as it doesn't add anything new to the discussion, and amounts to a "Me too." All it does is add more noise to the signal.

 

[Christopher]

^^Sounds more like "Quoted for Truthiness."

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Is "truthiness" even a word? Sounds like something out of the Bush dyslexicon. :/

 

[Smiley]

Allyn Gibson said:
Is "truthiness" even a word? Sounds like something out of the Bush dyslexicon. :/

Or Colbert...

 

[Christopher]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness

 

[JD]

LOL, that is great. I'll have to remember that word so I can use it sometime.

 

[Baerbel Haddrell]

Maybe it could be the title of a new Q novel?

 

[JWolf]

Sxottlan said:

KRAD said:
I just pretty much assume people refer to the print books, since those are, y'know, real books.

He sees the light!

Don't start.

 

[K-Star]

I guess I'll throw in another vote for Immortal Coil, as it's the only novel I own (and it's a GREAT read too!)