Grand Designs, the Star Trek: Corps of Engineers compilation containing my novella Ring Around the Sky, will be published by Pocket Books in July of 2007. The cover for it was unveiled today:
The cover image is of the world Kharzh’ulla IV, seen in my story, as rendered by artist Chris Moore. Kharzh’ulla boasts of an orbital ring connected to the surface by space elevators built by an ancient race. In the 24th-century, the Ring faces collapse and the crew of the USS da Vinci is called in to consult and, perhaps, repair the Ring.
The stories in Grand Designs are:
- #37: Ring Around the Sky by Allyn Gibson
- #38: Orphans by Kevin Killiany
- #39: Grand Designs by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore
- #40: Failsafe by David Mack
- #41: Bitter Medicine by Dave Galanter
- #42: Sargasso Sector by Paul Kupperberg
This isn’t the first time Kharzh’ulla has been depicted. Michael Collins’ cover of the 2004 eBook publication of Ring Around the Sky was simply breathtaking:
I’ve felt incredibly blessed to have artwork as sensational as these two pieces representing my story. Blessed. 🙂
For those who haven’t read Ring Around the Sky, perhaps because of the eBook format, come July you’ll have your chance. The super-spiffy cover by Chris Moore should certainly be enticing enough. 😀
I’ve felt incredibly blessed to have artwork as sensational as these two pieces representing my story. Blessed…
I agree with you about the stunning artwork, and I shall certainly look forward to reading this story, but I do have one tiny question:
Blessed by whom?
Wow! I always thought you had one of the best of the SCE covers and this new one may just top it. Very nice work.
So… jealous… 😀
That is a stunning cover. Congratulations!
Blessed by whom?
The Flying Spaghetti Monster, of course. :banana:
Michael Collins’ work on SCE/CoE doesn’t get enough praise, in my opinion. He’s a magnificent talent, and I’d like to see, perhaps in a future CoE reprint, a collection of Collin’s covers bound in the center, much as novelizations sometimes have stills from the film to bring his superlative artwork to the wider audience it deserves.