In 1969, shortly after the Apollo 11 moon landing, the clandestine organization known as Sector Seven tests their first Ice Man-derived spacecraft with disastrous consequences.
Vital statistics[]
ISBN# 978-0-345-49798-7
Writer: Alan Dean Foster
Story concept: David Cian
Pagecount: 286
Synopsis[]
Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday's synopsis on Wikipedia
Featured characters[]
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes[]
"If Megatron has allied himself with these life-forms, you're going to get your Spark handed to you. Painfully."
- —Blackout reminds Starscream about how ruthless Megatron is.
"Starscream, I'm here for you."
"Then come! I've maintained a special file that is devoted to nothing but anticipation for this!"
"Your wait is over."
- —Optimus Prime and Starscream exchange taunts.
"Time to repeat a lesson you seem to have forgotten." [cuts Blackout's weapons systems off] "A short memory can be fatal. Here is lesson number two: Pain hurts." [fires into Blackout's chest, then punches him in the face] "Lesson number three: Pain continues to hurt even when you wish for it to stop."
"Don't... You prevail. I concede utterly. You are the leader. I withdraw my challenge."
"We are not quite done yet. Here is the last and most important lesson: Pain is an excellent teaching tool that should be practiced by all leaders and recognized by all smart-mouthed soldiers." [shoots Blackout again]
- —Starscream teaches Blackout a few lessons. He was so abused as a kid.
Notes[]
- Now, of course, we know Apollo 11 was also a Transformer-related government conspiracy that Walter Simmons was in on!
- The reason the Cube cannot be moved, of course, is because it has the dangerous possibility of animating all mechanical objects within its vicinity as detailed in the 2007 film.
- The novel was originally announced as being written by David Cian, but after turning in a (self-admittedly[1] rushed) first draft, he was replaced by Alan Dean Foster, who then rewrote the novel to an unknown extent. Foster's is the lone name on the binding, while Cian receives a story credit inside.
- The book as published only marginally resembles Cian's description of the one he was writing and features a much more defined scope and focus.[2]
- Much of the plot takes place on a planet reminiscent of the setting of Dune—desert environment, pillars with glyphs carved into them, sandworms, etc.
- Autobots can fly under gravity.
- Starscream learns that both Megatron and the Allspark are on Earth (but not the location of Earth) from the humans. He keeps that information to himself.
- Christolph Smythe owns hardcover copies of the books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
- The term "protoform" is used in the same manner as "mode". For instance there is reference to Transformers having cometary protoforms and Bumblebee is said to have a bipedal protoform.
International printings[]
Japan
- ISBN 4150116229
- ISBN 978-4150116224
- Date published: July 15, 2007
- Publisher: Hayakawa Publishing Corp.
- Translator: Tsukasa Kaneko
- Pagecount: 431