Good Show Sir

Jan 17

Rick Deckard Comments: Captain Flandry: Intergalactic hero and weekend cosplay Hell’s Angels re-enactor.

Published 1976

(Average: 6.33 out of 10)

Tagged with: Bob Fowke • Dominic Flandry Series • dude • gun • mighty moustache • motorcycle • Poul Anderson • ruins • tasteful smoke • wired • wraparound cover

Jan 16

The Changeling

17 Comments »

Shoot anything! It's a target-rich environment. Click for larger image

Paul Comments: “Do these pants make my ass look fat?”

Published 1976

(Average: 6.33 out of 10)

Tagged with: A.E. van Vogt • booties • Bruce Pennington • flying saucer • helmet • little people • Manor Books • pole weapon • Sir Mix-A-Lot

Jan 15

The Unforsaken Hiero

20 Comments »

Release the Kraken! ... And the Snail! Click for larger image

JuanPaul Comments: Clash of the Titans

Published 1976

You might remember this from here. (+1 Protection from Spelling)

(Average: 6.71 out of 10)

Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • Ballantine Books • bones • Darrell K. Sweet • eyes on stalks • Faux-nan • loincloth • ocean • skeletons • skulls a-poppin' • snails • Sterling E. Lanier • sword

Jan 14

User Friendly

23 Comments »

Was it really necessary to chain it to the post? Click for larger image

The Bookkeeper Comments: Being wrapped in metal foil like a baked potato was a poor clothing choice for burning day.

Published 1998

(Average: 7.29 out of 10)

Tagged with: Baen Books • computers • David Mattingly • fire • inadequate armor • mainstream religion • mob rules • no one expects the Spanish Inquisition • pope • Spider Robinson

Jan 10

The Years of the City

16 Comments »

Window washers of the future! Click for larger image

Monty Comments: Those colors.

Published 1995

(Average: 5.80 out of 10)

Tagged with: Baen Books • David Mattingly • font problems • Frederik Pohl • geometric oddities • little people • under construction

Jan 09

Pearl of Patmos

19 Comments »

Nip o' Patmos Click for larger image

Raoul Comments: Tony Destefano majored in right arm anatomy drawing at the Unknown Artist Institute.

Published 1973

(Average: 8.33 out of 10)

Tagged with: a Blade by any other name • big girls don't cry • bladed weapons • damsel • dude • giant • Jeffrey Lord (aka Manning Lee Stokes) • muscles • Pinnacle Books • Richard Blade • tasteful smoke • Tony Destefano

Jan 08

The Stars Are Ours & Space Pioneers

21 Comments »

Before:

WTF with the perv-telescope? Click for larger image

After:

Wait until I get my hands on the guy who disabled the toilet smoke alarm! Click for larger image

It’s a Two-fer Tuesday: Andre Norton Before & After

Good Show Sir Comments:

Before: “This mission is so popular the men are dying to get in!”

After: “Damn! I thought filling the cabins with hydrogen would reduce our take-off weight!”

Published 1954

(Average: 7.40 out of 10)

Tagged with: Andre Norton • binoculars • dude • Eric Frank Russell • fire • floating rocks • Fritz Leiber • H.B.Fyfe • helmet • ill-fitting spacesuit • little people • Raymond Z. Gallun • rocket • Virgil Finlay • World Publishing • X-ray specs

Jan 07

Happy New Year 2019! We will remember 2018 for all the cameo appearances of actual professional artists, authors and editors in the comments! Surprisingly, they are not happy! Why would they mistake our lovely site for some sort of Museum of Bad Art? Just because our tagline is “Only the worst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers”? First thing to do in the near year is to change that to “Only the wurst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers” so they don’t misunderstand our intent. Not all though. Some get it.

We here at Good Show Sir Headquarters are looking forward to the new year and our gala 10th Anniversary bash scheduled at an undisclosed location sometime in March. Our special friends will have their invitations hand-delivered by a uniformed government agent sometime in the very near future.

As always, GSS After Dark Platinum Club Members can get their party invitations here.

On to the honours. Be aware that this post was prerecorded and if the order of the top three keep shifting, well, fuck it. I’ll just have to go in and delete some ratings.

First, the top rated cover of last year:

Tom Mix Seal of Approval! Click for larger image

Down in the Black Gang
Sexual innuendo. Always a crowd pleaser.

Our silver medal winner is the Jack Chalker Honourable Mention clusterfuck:

Is that you Fairy-Peg? Click for larger image

Honourable Mentions 19

As Bruce A Munro aptly put it: Well, if anyone was uncertain that Jack Chalker was dead, this should serve as convincing evidence.

And the bronze medal winning:

'Why am I chained to this pig?' - The Pig Click for larger image

Carnacki the Ghost-Finder
pot-bellied dude and pot-bellied pig

My personal favourite cover of 2018:

Snakes on a Dame Click to remove devil sheep

The Image of the Beast/Blown
Cover Blown. Mind Blown.

And Tag Wizard’s chosen favourite from the year:

Ow! Stop yanking on my eye, lady! Click for larger image

Chaos Mode
Es car go go

Peace out
— GSS Admin

(Average: 8.00 out of 10)

Tagged with: Happy New Year • Old Year Sum Up

Dec 21

Christmas Megapost 2018

27 Comments »

Let’s sit back and enjoy some Xmas vinyl. And then toss them on the old yule log. We’ll have our Festivus “Airing of Grievances” after we return from the break. I got a lotta problems with you people, and you’re going to hear about it! Have a happy holiday and we’ll see you in a couple weeks with our Old Year Sum Up!

Get that red suit on, Obi-Wan Click for larger image