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.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteThat 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