#ghost-walker

Hi to my new followers! Thank you Diane Duane for roasting me, still kvelling/recuperating from that iconic moment. 

So, this is not a review because I just started grad school and it’s kicking my ass, but it is an edifying compilation of Trek lit! 

I have a library of Trek books (about 150, and growing with an alarming frequency). I have culled through my collection to find the weirdest covers for your viewing and perhaps one day reading pleasure. 

Here’s my top 5. 

5. Star Trek: First Frontier by Diane Carey

I’m easing us in with a nice and silly cover. Diane Carey is a prolific Trek author and one of my favs (reviews forthcoming but check out Dreadnought! and Battlestations! for an awesome OC and third party Premise positing), so while I might judge this book’s cover that won’t stop me from digging in. Space husbands. Dinosaurs. What’s not to love?? 

As an added bonus, I really love the back of the book as well: 

It makes the lil dinosaur look like he’s part of the crew <3 Or did Bones get turned into a dinosaur? Read and find out! 

4. Time for Yesterday by A.C. Crispin 

This one rides the line between weird and awesome, but I love it so much I had to share it. Look at this dude bursting out of the Guardian of Forever on his fanged horse! Fuck yeah! This book came out in 1988, a year before Star Trek V (and I haven’t read it yet lol), so I’m not 100% sure if there’s a connection between this carnivorous looking cheval and Sybock’s steed, but I’ll report back as soon as I have any answers.  

3. Ghost-Walker by Barbara Hambly 

There’s A LOT to unpack here. Firstly, we LOVE the classic cover art. It’s super frustrating that a lot of Trek books don’t credit the artists!! However, some quick googling shows me that this amazing cover is by Keith Birdsong, who did a ton of Trek art. Thank you, Keith, for your vision. I have some questions. 

WHY does the bird man have fingernails?? The fingers(??) look like bird feet, so why aren’t there claws/talons?? WHAT is this bird person doing to our Jimbo?? “A mysterious force” indeed. Peep the fleshy-looking stalactites as well as Bird Person’s glorious head of hair. Hair AND feathers?? Ok, moving on to... 

2. Time Trap by David Dvorkin 

Ok, I feel a little mean including this one because I’m just calling it out for being Bad Weird Art. But what is up with everyone’s eyes??? I’m not talking about the Eyebrow Situation going on with the figure on the left (except for how I just did oop); let’s look at our boy Jim. Don’t look too closely at his hand/arm. Let’s focus on the eyes. 

And maybe a little closer... 

Too close?? This cover makes the list for the feeling of Unease it inspires within me. 

But the real winner in terms of Unrepentantly Weird I’m throwing under the cut. Click if you’re feeling brave. 

And #1...