Space Shuttles on Technothriller covers

[Graham2001]

I was browsing in an op-shop and spotted two different copies of 'Winter Hawk" by Craig Thomas, I picked the one in better condition to take home with me, but as I did I was struck by the 'Space Shuttles' as depicted by the cover artist.

This started me thinking, the space shuttles started flying in 1981/82, and technothrillers didn't really get going until about a year later.

Then I started wondering, how many different 'space shuttles' there are on such covers.

I've scanned the cover of the book I have and a link to the picture is below.

"All the Grey Cats/Winter Hawk", 1996. Cover by Chris Moore.

If anyone else has a technothriller from 1983 onwards that shows a 'space shuttle', feel free add a link to the cover pic (scanned or otherwise)...

Lets see just how many different ones there are...

[Larry Jacks]

Well, there was Storming Intrepid back in the 1980s. I bought a copy but quit reading it less than halfway through. It's ignorance about space was on the same level as Armageddon.

[Maksutov]

I was browsing in an op-shop and spotted two different copies of 'Winter Hawk" by Craig Thomas, I picked the one in better condition to take home with me, but as I did I was struck by the 'Space Shuttles' as depicted by the cover artist.

This started me thinking, the space shuttles started flying in 1981/82, and technothrillers didn't really get going until about a year later.

Then I started wondering, how many different 'space shuttles' there are on such covers.

I've scanned the cover of the book I have and a link to the picture is below.

"All the Grey Cats/Winter Hawk", 1996. Cover by Chris Moore.

If anyone else has a technothriller from 1983 onwards that shows a 'space shuttle', feel free add a link to the cover pic (scanned or otherwise)...

Lets see just how many different ones there are...

That's just a marketing ploy. Almost all the books by Arthur C. Clarke that were re-released shortly after 1968 featured covers that sported 2001esque spacecraft.

[jrkeller]

Night Launch by Jake Garn

[Jeff Root]

This started me thinking, the space shuttles started flying in 1981/82,
and technothrillers didn't really get going until about a year later.

I'm not an expert on technothrillers, but my guess is that the
'watershed' technothriller was 'The Andromeda Strain', the movie
of which was released in 1971. I don't know when the book came
out. I think I saw the movie the day it opened and read the book
a few months later. Did it really take more than a decade for the
genre to catch on, or was your offhand guess as far off the mark
as mine typically are?

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

[eburacum45]

Here's one (more sci-fi than technothriller, actually)
http://www.alexholden.net/books/cove..._Anansi_f.jpeg

[HenrikOlsen]

But that one doesn't count, it's actually about a shuttle mission.

[eburacum45]

Oh, I see- it has to be a gratuitous Shuttle image. Got ya.

[publiusr]

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