Well it’s quickly coming to the end of the summer and we are graced with a final bank holiday weekend, for some of us anyway. That means one thing, honourable mentions! It’s fun times again!
These mentions are special because they aren’t actually sci-fi or fantasy proving that strange and wonderful covers can make their way into other genres.
Thanks to everyone who visits the site! We do love sharing these wonderful books. Enjoy your long weekend, or your normal short one if you have to work on Monday!
Click for full imageRod Comments: Ooh yeah, sexy nukes …
Click for full imageTom Comments: This book is neither fantasy nor sci-fi, but it still deserves submission for it’s title alone. It was so arresting that I snapped this pic when I spotted the book at my aunt’s house in 2004, long before Good Show Sir was extant! I feel that it must take at the very least a good deal of metrosexual courage to wear that jaunty red cap.
Click for full imageGood Show Sir Comments: We found this one in a second hand book shop. Not sure what killed the rat but at least he’s getting a patriotic funeral.
(Rating: 8.14 out of 10)
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August 27th, 2010 at 9:33 am
1) MEGADEATH: See? Nukes are just phallic overcompensation for impotent generals.
2) GAY COURAGE: From what I’ve heard, the American hunter is easily recognizable by his big red cap, his big red coat… and his big red nose. This man is obviously not a real hunter, as he’s sober.
3) DEATHWATCH: Glenn Beck, NOOO!! You died too young!
August 27th, 2010 at 10:34 am
Mr. Jingles finally bit the bullet it seems
August 27th, 2010 at 11:24 am
I wonder what would happen if we combined all these books together into one glorious story:
One man held the lovely young daughter of a minister as she finds she’s loosing her heart to a dashing irresponsible patriotic rat, who holds the world to ransom.
Awesome…
August 27th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
One Man Holds the World … hang on, don’t even THINK about putting that man on the cover! Take one of Charlie’s Angles instead … but shrink her, so the science fiction dorks will buy it!
I quite like the rat, though. Quite the artwork in itself.
August 27th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
I’d change the text on the first one to “Whoa! Check out the rifle on that guy!”
August 27th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
I do note that that’s a bullet on the cover of the first book, not a nuke. I don’t think a single bullet could hold the world to ransom, however large and phallic.
I’m impressed that mice are so patriotic, and will forgive them the fact that you usually put the body INSIDE the coffin. They are all after all mice.
August 27th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
@Tom: That’s not a bullet either, that’s the most unwieldly lipstick ever. That woman’s pose, though, shows she’s managed to apply it somehow.
August 28th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
I wonder if the heavy metal band Megadeath got their name from this cover…I’m thinking probably not.
August 31st, 2010 at 5:23 am
I really wanted MEGADEATH to be the author, not the title.
August 31st, 2010 at 8:22 am
@Brian B, @ Kathleen
There’s an extraneous A in it..
August 31st, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Full name: Megan Anne De’Ath,