{"id":6696,"date":"2009-11-17T03:08:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T11:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=6696"},"modified":"2011-09-03T18:05:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T01:05:44","slug":"the-early-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/6696","title":{"rendered":"Early Star Trek novel design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/modern_fred\/tags\/jamesblish\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/StarTrek_03.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Blish\"   target=\"_blank\">James Blish<\/a> turned the original episodes of Star Trek into short stories, which have been printed and reprinted by Bantam Books. <\/p>\n<p>The original cover paintings (above) were top notch. Lou Feck&#8217;s incredible brush strokes and fanciful landscapes took Star Trek beyond the confines of a television SFX budget (he did #s 4, 7 and 8). Eddie Jones made a blasted Klingon engine look really cool on #10 (Jones did the later numbers in the series, under the pen name S. Fantoni).<\/p>\n<p>And the type: Helvetica Condensed and some ultra bold numbers (you know, like one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/new.myfonts.com\/fonts\/steve-mehallo\/jeanne-moderno\/ultra\/\" target=\"_blank\">fonts<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Cool design for explorers on the edge of space. Here\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/modern_fred\/tags\/jamesblish\/\" target=\"_blank\">Modern Fred&#8217;s Flickr\/photoset<\/a> of the bunch. And while you&#8217;re out exploring, check out Fred&#8217;s other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/modern_fred\/\"  target=\"_blank\">space age modern snaps<\/a>.<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Early Star Trek novel design\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/6696\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author James Blish turned the original episodes of Star Trek into short stories, which have been printed and reprinted by Bantam Books. The original cover paintings (above) were top notch. Lou Feck&#8217;s incredible brush strokes and fanciful landscapes took Star Trek beyond the confines of a television SFX budget (he did #s 4, 7 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,44,50,51,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-finds","category-design","category-illustration","category-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6696"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29221,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions\/29221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}