Oct 29
Good Show Sir Comments: Hey, isn’t that Dominic Flandry’s girlfriend?
Published 1983
Thanks to Mary K. for sending this in!
Good Show Sir Comments: Hey, isn’t that Dominic Flandry’s girlfriend?
Published 1983
Thanks to Mary K. for sending this in!
October 29th, 2018 at 10:26 am
Now you see why Judy Dench will be in ‘Cats’ the movie.
October 29th, 2018 at 10:28 am
And when Bagpuss wakes up, all his friends wake up too. All the creatures on this cover woke up and stretched…
October 29th, 2018 at 11:17 am
The third sequel to this, with the rather cumbersome title of “Volume Four of the Four Lords of the Diamond- Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail” has already made an appearance.
The tiger, unfortunately, was nowhere to be seen, but here it is at last!
October 29th, 2018 at 1:40 pm
I thought the four lords of the diamond were Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio and Williams (and now I’m having a déjà vu—have we had this cover before, or this title?)
October 29th, 2018 at 1:40 pm
Is that a hidden dragon above the crouching tiger?
October 29th, 2018 at 1:42 pm
That’s Tony the Tai-Chi Tiger!
October 29th, 2018 at 3:56 pm
The one in the middle is definitely strutting her stuff on the catwalk.
October 29th, 2018 at 4:07 pm
How appropriate! Is it National Cat Day also in the UK?
October 29th, 2018 at 5:47 pm
That is one trippy dance performance.
October 29th, 2018 at 6:10 pm
Speaking of martial arts…..that’s a horrible example of Tiger Claw. On the other hand, judging from what the other students are doing, I would probably join this Kung Fu school.
October 29th, 2018 at 9:00 pm
This cover is such a blobby, swirly mess I had to look at the larger image just to try to see what’s going on.
It didn’t help much. I see Flandry’s wooden GF (well spotted, GSS) and the guy who wants to join the Tiger gang, but the rest of it is an orange mess (insert your own political joke here). It might very well be a Hidden Dragon, BC.
@Alice: I’ve got a rescue kitty on my lap right now, and another in sight. I am definitely observing National Cat Day.
@BC: We had Volume 4, as @RachelJ notes. You and I could only spout baseball comments. Although I see I also got a biathlon reference in there.
Yes, these fantasy covers are so bad that even dedicated GSS’ers are reduced to making sports comments.
Jack Chalker: The Man Who Got No Good Book Covers: Volume Five.
(see also Honourable Mentions 19)
October 29th, 2018 at 11:07 pm
Apart from anything else, I count five approximately humanoid figures here, two of whom seem female and one’s a tiger. At best one lord is presetn and he’s putatively the tiny figure above the stripy girl.
@THX (2): Neff neff neff, good show sah!
October 30th, 2018 at 12:00 am
So, it’s not a book about Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Ty Cobb, and Hank Aaron?
October 30th, 2018 at 1:08 am
Welcome to Chalkerland, the most magical land in SF! Creepy physical and mental transformations for everyone!
October 31st, 2018 at 3:08 pm
Even Neptune’s head (top left) was blown after seeing this cover.