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Cover of Ghost Ship | 1st September 2013, 20:28  
Diane Carey's Ghost Ship is the first regular novel in the Star Trek: The Next Generation tie-in series. I was surprised by how well written it was and how much I enjoyed reading it some 25 years after publication, but my thoughts on the book are for elsewhere.

Here, I shall dissect the cover...

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As with the novelisation of Encounter at Farpoint, there were some differences in the US and UK editions of the book, published respectively by Pocket and Titan books. The US cover is pictured on the left above, and the UK edition on the right. The quality of neither scan is brilliant, but they were the best I could find.

My copy of the novel is the Titan edition, but the artwork looks more like that in the Pocket cover above - the colours on the right-hand image are probably lighter because of the scanning process. The differences between the two covers are minor. The colour of the TNG logo changes, and the absence of a drop shadow makes the UK cover's more prominent (to my eyes) than the blue and white which blends into the planet behind.

The appearance of the number 1 on both covers suggests a plan for more novels, but it's much bolder on the UK cover (the US one is hidden away in at the right of the logo in tiny white text), an interesting choice, as surely at this point the publishers would surely want to tell their audience to come back for more (although the images may not be first editions - my copy looks like this and is an eighth printing).

Most amusingly, the text at the top of the covers is tweaked slightly on the UK edition to abbreviate 'U.S.S. Enterprise' to just 'Enterprise', possibly to get rid of the American reference (or more likely to make it fit tidily on three lines).

Finally, down to the artwork. The foreground is actually very good, with Riker and La Forge looking really realistic and just like the actors. Data on the other hand looks like he has a really flat face, with a flat forehead angled back from it. The choice of characters to illustrate it works well with the plot, where all three play a major role.

The background however makes no sense at all. There is only one planet that appears in the story and that's a gas giant - not an M-class world like that depicted. Similarly the space vessel pictured does not appear in this story. It's like they commissioned images of the characters then threw them onto some generic space imagery - did they not think that we might have seen what the Enterprise looks like on the TV show? The planet is forgiveable, but to picture a spaceship that's not in the story? No. That lets the whole cover down.
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Cover of Encounter at Farpoint | 15th June 2013, 18:06  
As an ambitious and ongoing project, I'm planning to read/re-read the novel series based on Star Trek: The Next Generation. There are over 100 so I expect this to take some time, and don't know if there are any rules I plan to break along the way - but for now the entire series in publication order.

I've begun with the novelization of the pilot episode Encounter at Farpoint, written by David Gerrold and based on the episode by D.C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry.

I've noticed as I've unboxed and added to my collection in preparation for this re-read, that some of the cover art is rather dreadful, and so I thought I would use this space to comment on the novels' covers.

Farpoint was published with three different covers, as far as I can tell from a quick Google, and my copy bears the one on the left (below). My edition of the novel is the Titan Books version published in the UK; the other two are from Pocket Books, so are presumably US editions.

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There's nothing wrong with this cover - the use of a photograph of the crew seems a perfectly satisfactory way to introduce the new series, although the absence of the Enterprise itself is surprising.

The image will help the reader, who may have yet to see an episode of the TV series, to visualise the characters, assuming Gerrold's descriptions are detailed enough, and I think they would be. It's interesting to see that the UK edition has taken the background out of the shot to declutter the cover - despite the volume of text being similar on both, the UK cover feels much cleaner.

There are two other notable oddities.

For some reason the UK publisher have decided to crop Wesley Crusher out of the image. I'm at a loss to understand why this would be done from an editorial point of view, but perhaps the dark clothing he's wearing clashed with the desire to use a starfield background and the decision was an artistic one? Maybe he turned into a floating head?

But then that doesn't explain why they left Worf in clashing so badly with the background. In fact, the quality of the printing is so low on my copy that I can't tell whether Worf's eyes are open or not. The Pocket version of the photograph seems to have a more reflective Worf but still doesn't show up well.

The photograph also stands out though because it is not the cast photo from the pilot, but from the main body of the first season. The reason for this is presumably because Worf wasn't in the pilot's cast photo at all, but it's more noticeable because the appearance of Troi was changed dramatically after the pilot - long frizzy hair replaced by a bun and a blue skirted Starfleet uniform replaced by random bodysuit (something I don't recall ever being addressed in the series - how did she get away with not wearing a uniform for so many years?).

Overall, it's not a bad cover and introduces the audience well. Photographs are always the best way to depict the cast, and as I continue through the series I expect to see them replaced by some truly hideous drawings.

Next up: Ghost Ship by Diane Carey
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12 for 12 | 27th November 2011, 19:51  
2012 is just around the corner, and I've decided that I want to read 12 new novels by 12 new authors throughout the year - hopefully one per month, though possible adjusted to avoid November because of NaNoWriMo.

I'm about to put out a call on my twitter account for suggestions, and I'll repeat that here and list some of my caveats.

The key thing is that they must be books by authors I've not read before.

So, tweet/email/postcard me and let me know what to read next year.

FAQ

1. Does my suggestion have to be a novel?

Ideally yes, unless you can convince me otherwise. I'll be happy with novellas but am not too keen on short stories or collections thereof. I'm unlikely to go for non-fiction, and comic books/graphic novels are out.

2. What do I need to give you?

The title and author should be sufficient. Enough to identify the book.

3. Will you read any genre?

Yes, why not.

4. What if you get more than 12 suggestions?

Then I'll pick the ones that seem most interesting to me.

5. Is there anything you won't read?

Yes. I don't want to read books in multiple volumes. 'Eye of the World' by Robert Jordan would be a bad choice, because I would have to read 14 books. I've already read that one though so no problem there.

I have to be able to get my hands on a copy of the book. That means from Amazon or the high street or the local library.

I don't want to read anything with a cover that will embarrass me too much on the train!

It can't be by an author I've already read something by. The whole point is to read stuff that's new to me.

6. Will you read my book?

If you are a published author (not self-published) then yeah, why not.

7. What's on the shortlist so far?

Already read:
Deal Breaker by Harlan Coban
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snickett
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collings
Game of Thrones by George R R Martin
The Affair of the Blood-Stained Tea Cosy by James Anderson
Bill the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison
The Recruit by Robert Muchamore
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel
Jumper by Steven Gould
Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler

Lined up:
Night of the Living Trekkies by David Anderson & Sam Stall
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
The Field Guide by Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey
The Mermaids Singing or The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid



Possibles:

The Bone People by Keri Hulme
On the Beach by Nevil Shute Norway
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
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Cover comparison: One Shot | 5th September 2011, 21:18  
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Depicted above are four covers for Lee Child's ninth Jack Reacher novel, One Shot, which sees the hero investigating when a sniper shoots five civilians from a car park.

The top right image is the current UK paperback cover, the bottom right the US cover, the bottom left is the original UK cover, and the top left... well, I'm not entirely sure, but I'm assuming it's a new US cover, as it seems dominant as a result in a GIS, although in a variety of shades of orange, and a quick bit of research seems to back this up.

I'm going to think about the UK covers first. The newer one (top right) is the cover design that all my copies of Lee Child's books are in, being a fairly recent convert (14 months ago), although the publishers recently decided to change the size which seemed a little bizarre. I thought this was an image of the new larger format novel as there's a vast amount of black space above the title that makes the picture look a little lost, but the word 'NEW' gives away that it isn't.

I like the simplicity of the cover. It's a simple picture that seems to depict part of the story, and the text tells you everything you need to know. Prsumably the word 'New' has been removed. The use of a single main colour runs through the set, and in this example it's actually the black, with the golden yellow being a secondary colour.

There is however a problem with this cover. You may have noticed my use of the word 'seems' in the above paragraph, and this is because the image does not display a scene from the book. It's true that there is a sequence fairly early on where a van of similar description is parked in a multi-storey car park, however it is described as being full - to the extent that an orange traffic cone has to be placed to reserve a space for the van. Read the book to find out why this is important.

The older UK cover (bottom left) is similar and has the same issue with the image. At first glance I thought the pictures were the same, just flipped, but looking at them side-by-side it seems they are just very similar. Clearly neither artist read the book.

The text on this edition is much more brash - the title text in a typeface that I would expect on a children's novel, and that used for the author's name just defies belief. I can't imagine what anyone was thinking when they designed this - it just makes it look like the author is a robotic bodybuilder (I am thinking an older robocop).

The US edition on the bottom right seems to be the predominant US cover. I've come to expect the line about 'Wow Amazing No 1 Top Super Brilliant Smashing New York Times Bestesteverselling' and I imagine everyone else in the world has become blind to this sort of thing. I quite like the typeface for the title - it's brash and bold without looking silly, although it is a little plain in the solid primary colours.

The image on this is actually quite nice, although again it shows a location unlike that described in the actual narrative. It's much grittier and seems more real than the drawings used on the UK covers, however that may not help to sell the book as it perhaps makes it look darker than it actually is.

A final point of interest is that this edition labels the book as 'A Reacher novel' rather than 'A Jack Reacher novel' - which I rather approve of as being more true to the nature of the character, who is always referred to by surname alone (even by his mother). I can understand though that to new readers this may be a little off-putting if they don't already understand that Reacher is the character's name.

Finally the cover at the top left which actually inspired me to write this. It's so completely different and I think it could well be the best of the bunch. It's simple, but stands out. The bold colouring on a bookshop's shelves is something that other authors I read have done before and are doing now (John Grisham), but in the rather crowded crime fiction section you need to be able to leap out to the reader. My only concern would be that it makes it look trivial and childish.

The artwork works well with the title, if not the actual plot, with a single shot through a target (actually thinking about it this could be relevant to the plot, but no spoilers). The bullet hole itself does look a bit corny though.

Overall, I have to plump for the top right cover that I've got on my shelf as my favourite, but the orange cover comes in a close second. If the tone of the novel was a little lighter this would probably fit, but it's meant to be serious, and the tone of the UK cover image seems to fit this well.
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Cover comparison: Ship of Magic | 29th July 2011, 21:20  
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The Liveship Traders is a sequel trilogy to the Farseer trilogy (Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin and Assassin's Quest), and this is the first novel.

Above are the US and UK front cover pictures. Unsurprisingly they are very different. In terms of the text, the US edition is surprisingly light, listing only the title, author, trilogy title and a very tiny line reading 'Author of Assassin's Quest'. The UK edition contains a similar amount of text, although emphasising this book's status as 'The international bestseller' and making it clear that this is 'Book One'.

It's interesting that the US edition has chosen to emphasise the title whereas the UK edition has the author's name in larger text, although a quick look at some of the other covers in the series suggests that this was done to maintain consistency, despite the author having become more famous. The UK edition however was published later and is the second set of UK cover design, so had a chance to up the font size.

The UK covers are actually a really nice set, although I'm not entirely sure what the relevance is of all the pictures to the plots. The covers are each a different colour and in real life are shiny. My favourite is that for 'Ship of Destiny', because it's a nice blue. But I digress...

The US cover image shows a woman (who looks a bit like Michael Jackson) dressed in some rather impractical looking sailing garb holding an I-don't-know-what and looking wistfully off into the distance. Behind her, a handsome long-haired gentleman watches from the background. Beyond him is the Liveship Vivacia, though it's hard to make out the tiny representation of her naked female form on the bowsprit, with strategically placed hair.

It's a better illustration that I had expected when I decided to write this comparison, and certainly more realistic than those of other US editions of fantasy novels that I've seen, however it does leave something to be desired. The people don't look real for a start - both are far too attractive, and I can't even tell who the man is meant to be - there were certainly no good-looking men like that aboard the ship that I read about! The clothes are too clean - it's like two people have just dressed up for a photoshoot rather than them actually being sailors, and so the image sits uncomfortably with me.

The UK edition in contrast is much more stylised - like most British fantasy covers, as it seems we like that sort of thing more, probably because novels with actual illustrations on the front remind us more of children's books. Again it depicts a liveship, but you have to look really closely to see the woman on the front.

Overall, I have to say I prefer the UK cover. It's easy on the eye and creates a really nice row of colour on my shelf with the rest of the series. The ship itself looks realistic despite its simplicity and there's nothing there that contradicts anything said in the text. However it must be said that the US cover is one of the best illustrated covers I've seen in the genre.
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Covers: One of our Thursdays is Missing | 24th February 2011, 19:22  
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One of our Thursdays is missing is the sixth novel in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde, and I'm about halfway through reading it. The UK edition has just been released but the US publication date is still a couple of weeks away.

Above are the two covers, on the right is the UK cover - very similar in style to the first five covers in the series (and the Nursery Crime covers, although the paperback for TN5 had a different design).

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On the left is the US cover, which as a concept I really like, but which is a complete departure from the earlier US covers in the series.

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My immediate thought here was that Fforde has changed publisher in the US, but a quick look at Amazon proved this wrong - 'Viking Adult' is still listed. I'm not sure why they've decided to go down this different route then - they had clearly thought the previous calligraphic title, almost cartoony illustration and increasingly bold author name worked for the first five books.

On the other hand the UK cover, published by Hodder, continues the style of the title font, and the only change to the author name is to drop it to the bottom. The image even continues a theme which I'd not noticed before, which is that each depicts a motor vehicle from the story. I'm not sure if the scene depicted is from the narrative - if so I've not got that far yet, whereas I'm pretty sure the picture on the US cover is not intended to depict what happens in the story.

As a metaphor though, the US cover is perfect - the fictional Thursday Next falling from her novel into the real world. I love the way the designer has fitted the often obtrusive 'New York Times best-selling author' text into the picture, although I wonder if having the title of the previous book might confuse shoppers. I for one didn't realise at first that the text on the book spines was intended to run together.

My criticisms of the US cover however fall into three points. First is my old bugbear, the words 'A Novel'. I've recently discussed this with some people in the US book world and been told this is because the novel is a relatively recent phenomenon in the US and this is needed to distinguish from non-fiction and to aid booksellers in correctly placing their wares. But why does it need a full-stop? And why is it in that awful font?

Second is the fact that it doesn't specify clearly that it is a Thursday Next novel and the sixth book in the series. Maybe this isn't important? I certainly find that I can read it with only a sketchy memory of what happened in the earlier novels but am not sure how someone who had no knowledge would cope with the complicated meta-story.

Finally, and most importantly, is that the construction of the cover looks like a bad photoshop. It looks like five components stuck together with no attempt to make them look like a whole - the title and background, author name, 'A Novel' text, books photo and a cut-out of a 1950s drawing of a woman. I just which it felt more continuous.

My only issue with the UK cover though is the letters in the foreground that the taxi has driven into. At first glance it seems they are the letters of the author's name, but then there's that 'Y' on the far right. I've no idea what it's meant to have said, and that irritates me.

In conclusion then, although I like the concept of the US cover, it's too basic and shoddy looking, and so I have to give my preference to the UK cover, which continues the gorgeous set on my shelf.
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Star Trek novels in 2011 | 29th January 2011, 21:02  
I used to keep an eye on forthcoming Star Trek novels using the upcoming books list at pshiphi.org, however that seems to have fallen into disuse, not being updated for some two and a half years. As such, I've decided to put together my own page listing the upcoming books so that I can keep track. I've tried to split it by month although there are some disagreements on the release dates so some may be wrong. Where there's doubt I've tried to go with the dates listed on Simon & Schuster (the publisher)'s website where available, then Amazon - these are of course US release dates and release in the UK or elsewhere will be later. Where possible there are cover images, however these may only be holding/marketing images and not the final covers - in some cases they are the final ones but some earlier designs are still floating about. January Blog ImageTyphon Pact/DS9: Rough Beasts of Empire The Typhon Pact series is a set of four novels set after Star Trek Nemesis, and deals with an alliance formed between the Federation's enemies. It's useful to have read the TNG and DS9 continuation series, and the Titan series, first, although they don't follow particularly well from the DS9 relaunch. David R. George's entry focusses on Spock, Sisko, and the Romulans, and is already out (okay, was probably out in December). Read my review Buy from Amazon UK Blog ImageStarfleet Academy: The Edge This is the second entry in a new 'young-adult' series of fairly short novellas, set in the alternate universe set-up in the 2009 film. Kirk, Bones and Uhura are at the academy, and Rudy Josephs' story covers their early days there. Listed in some places as 'the Competitive Edge'. Read my review Buy from Amazon UK Blog ImageTyphon Pact/TNG: Paths of Disharmony The final book in the Typhon Pact series is by Dayton Ward, and focusses on the crew of the Enterprise-E as they are dispatched to Andor to deal with the fall-out of the Destiny trilogy. It's not clear how much this will wrap up or leave hanging for future continuation novels to pick up on. According to S&S, this is already out, and Amazon are planning to dispatch my copy this week. Read my review Buy from Amazon UK March Blog ImageTNG: Indistinguishable From Magic It's unclear where David A. McIntee's novel falls in the TNG timeline - whether it follows on from the Typhon Pact series or not. It's an engineering mystery following La Forge, Scotty, Nog, Guinan and the crew of the USS Challenger. The cover depicts a Galaxy-class ship, which is probably the Challenger as seen twice in Voyager, in Endgame, the series finale, and in Timeless, in an alternate future, where La Forge was its' captain. Buy from Amazon UK April Blog ImageNew Frontier: Blind Man's Bluff New Frontier is the first and most successful of the book-only Star Trek series. It seems to have lost its way a bit recently with large gaps between volumes. The story has been moved along to run parallel to the TNG continuations, so it will be interesting to see what effect that has. Originally scheduled for last summer, the release date was moved to January, and now to late April. Buy from Amazon UK Blog ImageDTI: Watching the Clock Christopher L Bennett writes this first novel in a potential new series focussing on the Department of Temporal Investigations (as seen in the DS9 episode Trials and Tribble-ations). Probably set in the TNG-era, I'm expecting time travel, and the plot is likely to be a continuation of the 'temporal cold war' arc from Enterprise's first two seasons, featuring investigators Dulmer and Lucsly (badly disguised anagrams of Mulder and Scully). Buy from Amazon UK May Blog ImageVOY: Children of the Storm The Voyager continuation seems to have been neglected a little, possibly due to the first four being a bit mediocre. Fortunately the most recent pair by Kirstin Beyer have been fantastic, numbering amongst my favourite Trek novels of recent years, and she's back to write this one. Voyager is back in the Delta Quadrant as part of a taskforce equipped with quantum slipstream drive. Three ships have gone missing though, and Voyager goes to investigate. Buy from Amazon UK Blog ImageStarfleet Academy: The Gemini Agent There's confusion over whether book three of the young-adult series is by Rudy Josephs or Rick Barba, both of whom have written one of the first two books. No details as yet on the subject matter, but no doubt it will feature Kirk, Spock, Bones and Uhura. Buy from Amazon UK June Blog ImageVanguard: Declassified This is a collection of short stories/novellas by Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore, David Mack and Marco Palmieri. The Vanguard series is set on a space station in the TOS-era and follows the lives of its' crew, including some of the roles we've seen little of before, including intelligence officers and the judiciary. Buy from Amazon UK July Blog ImageTOS: Cast No Shadow James Swallow, a British author whose Trek and Doctor Who novels I've enjoyed in the past, writes this novel set seven years after The Undiscovered Country. Spock meets up with Valeris again after terrorists attack the Klingons. Doubt I'll read it as I'm not a big TOS reader. Buy from Amazon UK August Blog ImageTOS: A Choice of Catastrophes I'm not really a reader of Original Series novels and I've never heard of the authors, Steve Mollmann and Michael Schuster, before so I can't say much about this. Apparently it's set mid-TOS with the Enterprise under Sulu's command, dealing with crewmembers falling into mysterious comas. Buy from Amazon UK September Blog ImageStarfleet Academy: Assassination Game Fourth book in the young-adult series set in the new universe. Originally listed as by Rick Barba. There're contradictory publication dates floating around but I've gone with the current publisher date. Update, 12th March, Amazon now list the title as 'The Assassination Game', with a standard Pocket Books holding cover image that doesn't have the definite article in the title, and lists Alan Gratz as the author. Buy from Amazon UK Blog ImageENT: The Romulan War: To Brave the Storm (was In Shariel's Jaws) I'd say this is probably only a working title for Michael A Martin's second solo entry in the Enterprise continuation, as both the publisher's website and Amazon just list it as 'sequel'. I wasn't too big a fan of the first, his work seeming to have lost something when he split from former writing partner Andy Mangels. Buy from Amazon UK Blog ImageVAN: What Judgements Come By Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore, this is listed by Memory Beta as being out in November, although I can't find it listed on the publisher's site yet. Update: in February this gained a title and a publication date on Simon & Schuster's site of September. November or later Blog ImageMirror Universe: Rise Like Lions Probably in January 2012, and again very tentative, this will be by David Alan Mack and is expected to end the Mirror Universe story. Sources: Amazon UK Memory Beta Wikipedia Simon & Schuster
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