Liverpool-based artist Callum Seymour has provided the stunning art to author Dayton Ward’s upcoming Star Trek: Picard novel, To Defy Fate, out in May.
Noticeably influenced by his passions within sports, comics and all things pop culture, Callum is an Illustrator who loves to create dynamic eye-catching artwork, where intricacy and detail are the key to his craft.
Always drawing and inspired to bring ideas to life, he has worked with multiple campaigns including those for films, video games, events, and products, working for football clubs such as Liverpool FC, Aston Villa FC Porto FC, Lille and Paris Saint Germain.
He’s also worked with world-leading athletes such as Anthony Joshua, Raheem Sterling and Canelo Alvarez, and created artwork and animations for clients such as Adidas, New Balance, Premier League, UEFA. FIFA, EA Sports, Matchroom, US network NBC, and BBC Sport.
His work has also been presented on television and billboards in New York’s Times Square and other major cities.
“Even at the earliest ‘sketch’ stages, I knew this was going to be something else,” author Dayton Ward said of the To Defy Fate cover earlier this year, “and to say I’m very excited about the finished cover is an almost criminal understatement.”
At a time when many publishers have moved to photo covers for their tie-in fiction (or, worse, AI), it’s fantastic to see Pocket Books commit to original art on this new Star Trek novel.
Check out Callum’s stunning work at callumseymour.com and follow him on Instagram here.
To Defy Fate is currently slated for release in hardcover by Pocket Books on Thursday 7th May 2026. It’s available to preorder now from your local bookshop (Affiliate Link), and AmazonUK and as a hardcover, eBook, and unabridged audio editions (Affiliate Links)
Star Trek: Picard: To Defy Fate is the latest tie-in novel in Pocket Books Star Trek: Picard series, which launched with Una McCormack’s The Last Best Hope back in 2020.
2401: Just weeks after defeating a devastating joint attack by rogue Changelings and remnants of the Borg Collective, Starfleet and the Federation face a long period of recovery that requires replacing lost personnel and ships. While touring the U.S.S. Titan-A, which is just beginning an extensive repair-and-refit process that will take nearly a year to complete, newly promoted Captain Seven of Nine and her first officer, Commander Raffi Musiker, experience a bizarre temporal event which renders them both unconscious and sends Seven into a deep coma.
In the aftermath of this inexplicable attack, Admirals Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher are surprised by the appearance of Crusher’s son, Wesley. Now a Traveler capable of traversing through all of space and time, he warns them that forces he cannot identify are working to disrupt time for unknown and potentially catastrophic reasons. Reality as they know it is in jeopardy and, despite their initial best efforts, the effects are not contained but instead continue to escalate.
Picard, Crusher, and Musiker join Wesley in hunting through time to stop whoever or whatever seems hellbent on rewriting history. But what is their unknown adversary’s ultimate objective? Left unchecked, their efforts might well erase from existence those Picard and his friends hold most dear. What could justify attempting to defy fate itself?
Dayton Ward is a New York Times bestselling author or coauthor of more than forty novels and novellas, often with his best friend, Kevin Dilmore. His short fiction has appeared in more than thirty anthologies, and he’s written for magazines such as the NCO Journal, Kansas City Voices, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Star Trek magazine, and Star Trek: Communicator, as well as the websites Tor.com, StarTrek.com, and Syfy.com. A native of Tampa, Florida, he currently lives with his family in Kansas City, Missouri.
• To Defy Fate is currently slated for release in hardcover by Pocket Books on Thursday 7th May 2026. It’s available to preorder now from your local bookshop (Affiliate Link), and AmazonUK and as a hardcover, eBook, and unabridged audio editions (Affiliate Links)
• Star Trek: Picard Novels on AmazonUK (Affiliate Link)
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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