Every detail in the attached cover image is accurate:
the Milky Way galaxy in an otherwise empty sky;
the crashed spaceship sticking out of a lake;
exactly six men emerging from it;
Hugh Valland with his omnisonor.
This single image could be the basis for:
illustrations to the novel;
a comic strip;
an animated film.
The comic strip could be the story-board for a live-action screen adaptation. In my opinion, any dramatization of a novel should be a serial in order to incorporate every detail. Any single book cover image is fascinating because it has the potential for so much more.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
That was one of the all too few accurate covers I've seen for any of Anderson's stores. I even thought of buying a copy of that edition of WORLD WITHOUT STARS because of how much I like that illustration.
Ad astra! Sean
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